Google said on March 11, 2026 that it has completed the Wiz acquisition and will bring the company into Google Cloud while keeping Wiz available across all major clouds. The company is positioning the deal as a multicloud and AI security move as attackers increasingly use AI to scale threats.
Google DeepMind said on March 26, 2026 that it is releasing a public toolkit to measure harmful manipulation by AI systems. The company says the work spans nine studies with more than 10,000 participants and now informs safety evaluations for models including Gemini 3 Pro.
Google introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash Live on Mar 26, 2026 as its new real-time audio model for developers, enterprises, and consumer products. The release ties together the Gemini Live API, Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, Search Live, and Gemini Live around a single lower-latency voice stack.
Google Research introduced TurboQuant on March 24, 2026 as a compression approach for KV cache and vector search bottlenecks. Hacker News pushed the post to 491 points and 129 comments, reflecting how central memory efficiency has become for long-context inference.
Google Research introduced S2Vec on March 24, 2026 as a self-supervised way to turn built-environment data into general-purpose embeddings. The framework aims to predict socioeconomic and environmental patterns from how cities are physically organized.
Google Research said on March 16, 2026 that its superconductivity case study found curated-source systems outperforming open-web LLMs. NotebookLM and a custom RAG setup scored highest on expert-written questions about high-temperature superconductors.
Google said on March 25, 2026 that it is now targeting 2029 for post-quantum cryptography migration. The company argues recent progress in quantum hardware, error correction, and factoring estimates makes authentication and signature upgrades more urgent.
Google said on March 25, 2026 that Lyria 3 Pro can generate tracks up to three minutes long and handle explicit musical structures such as intros, verses, choruses, and bridges. The official blog says the model is also expanding into Vertex AI public preview, AI Studio, Google Vids, and Music AI Sandbox workflows.
r/singularity amplified Google's decision to add neutral-atom research alongside superconducting quantum hardware, framing it as a hedge between qubit count, circuit depth, and commercialization timelines.
Google introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite on Mar 03, 2026 as its fastest and lowest-cost Gemini 3 series model. The preview release targets high-volume developer workloads with lower pricing, faster latency, and stronger benchmark scores than the prior 2.5 Flash tier.
On Feb. 12, 2026, Google announced a major Gemini 3 Deep Think upgrade for science, research, and engineering. The new version is available in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers and, for the first time, via early API access for researchers, engineers, and enterprises.
Google says joint research with Imperial College London and the UK’s NHS found that an experimental AI system identified 25% of interval cancers missed by conventional screening. The studies also suggest AI could reduce screening workload, while highlighting trust and calibration challenges in real clinical workflows.