Google Research says its March 12, 2026 rollout adds urban flash flood forecasts to Flood Hub with up to 24 hours of advance notice. The system is trained in part on Groundsource, a dataset built by using Gemini to extract structured flood events from public news reports.
Google Research says a prospective study with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found AMIE could operate with zero safety stops, strong diagnostic performance, and improved patient trust under live physician oversight. Published on March 11, 2026, the work is an early real-world test of conversational diagnostic AI inside a primary care workflow.
Google on March 10, 2026 announced a broader Gemini rollout across Google Workspace. The update ties files, email, and web context into drafting, spreadsheet building, slide creation, and Drive search workflows.
Google says Gemini in Google Sheets reached 70.48% on the full SpreadsheetBench benchmark, approaching human expert ability. The company attributes the result to product-specific tuning plus stronger verbalization and coding behavior inside Sheets.
Google AI Developers says Gemini Embedding 2 is now in preview via the Gemini API and Vertex AI. Google describes it as its first fully multimodal embedding model on the Gemini architecture and its most capable embedding model so far.
Google DeepMind said Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is rolling out in preview through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. The company positioned it as the most cost-efficient Gemini 3 model, with lower price, faster performance, and tunable thinking levels.
Google AI used X on March 6, 2026 to direct developers to Nano Banana 2, saying the model is available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. Google’s linked post positions Nano Banana 2, or Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, as a high-quality and faster image model designed for real application workloads.
Google said on February 24, 2026 that it is rolling out a new agent step in Opal for all users. The feature lets Opal choose the right tools and models for a goal, adds Memory across sessions, and pushes the product from static workflow wiring toward more interactive agentic workflows.
Google used AI Impact Summit 2026 to bundle infrastructure, public-sector grants, and workforce programs into one AI adoption package. The announcements include $15 billion for Indian cloud and AI infrastructure, two new $30 million initiatives for government and science, and a training effort aimed at 720,000 workers.
Google's March Pixel Drop begins rolling out over the next several weeks with Gemini actions across apps, multi-object Circle to Search, Magic Cue restaurant suggestions and new Pixel Watch safety features. The update also expands scam detection, call notes, Find Hub and Satellite SOS availability.
Google opened the AI Center Berlin on March 5 and said the site will connect teams from Google DeepMind, Google Research and Google Cloud with researchers, businesses and policymakers. At the launch, Google also announced long-term research partnerships with TUM and Helmholtz Munich.
Google and Taiwan's NHIA said they are combining 20+ years of health data, an AI-on-DM risk model and a Gemini-powered assistant to scale diabetes screening across the national system. Google said the workflow cuts per-case processing from 20 minutes to 25 seconds and will reach a government app used by 10 million people.