Google said it signed the Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud at the UN Global Fraud Summit in Vienna alongside companies including Adobe, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI. The move pairs shared threat intelligence and coordinated defenses with Google's own AI-driven scam detection and policy work planned for 2026.
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 DeepMind updated Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite on March 3, 2026 as a low-cost model for high-volume, low-latency work. Google says it supports 128k input, 8k output, multimodal input, native audio generation, and pricing from $0.10 per 1M input tokens.
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.
On March 10, 2026, Google published new results with Imperial College London and the UK NHS showing an experimental AI system identified 25% of previously missed interval cancers. A second study suggested AI could reduce screening workload by an estimated 40% when used as the second reader.
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 said on March 11, 2026 that it has closed its acquisition of Wiz. Wiz will join Google Cloud, but Google says the platform will continue working across major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.