Google said it is pairing new funding with AI-powered security tooling to help open source maintainers respond faster as AI increases both vulnerability discovery and attack pressure. The announcement combines a collective $12.5 million pledge through Alpha-Omega with wider use of tools such as Big Sleep, CodeMender, and Sec-Gemini.
Google introduced AI Works for Europe, adding $30 million to the Google.org European AI Opportunity Fund and expanding AI training resources. The initiative combines worker training, university partnerships, and a new certificate rollout in ten European languages.
Google introduced Project Spend Caps, revamped Usage Tiers, and new billing dashboards for Gemini API developers in AI Studio. The update is aimed at making cost control and scaling behavior more predictable for teams moving into paid usage.
Google says Gemini CLI now includes a read-only Plan mode that analyzes requests, codebases, and dependencies before any edits happen. The update also adds an ask_user tool and read-only MCP access so teams can clarify requirements and pull in outside context without risking accidental changes.
Google put Gemini Embedding 2 into public preview on March 10, 2026. The company says the model handles text, images, and mixed multimodal documents in one embedding space while improving benchmark scores to 68.32 for text and 53.3 for image tasks without changing price or vector dimensions.
Google said on March 12, 2026 that Ask Maps is starting to roll out in the U.S. and India on Android and iOS, with desktop coming soon. The same update also launches Immersive Navigation, adding 3D route context, alternate-route tradeoff guidance, and richer arrival assistance.
Google is rolling out new Gemini beta features for Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. The update lets Gemini create and edit work using files, emails, and the web, while Drive adds AI Overviews and a new Ask Gemini flow.
Google AI posted on March 13, 2026 that Gemini is now powering richer question answering and route planning inside Google Maps. Google’s accompanying product post introduces Ask Maps for conversational place discovery and Immersive Navigation for more visual, context-aware driving guidance.
Google introduced the Developer Knowledge API and an open-source MCP Server on February 4, 2026. The tools are meant to connect internal documentation, public URLs, and other team knowledge sources to Gemini Code Assist and AI-agent workflows with less custom plumbing.
Google has put Gemini Embedding 2 into public preview through the Gemini API and Vertex AI. The model is Google’s first natively multimodal embedding system, combining text, image, video, audio, and document inputs in one embedding space.
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.