Google AI Studio promoted Gemini Embedding 2 in a March 12, 2026 X post, and Google’s March 10 blog post says the model maps text, images, video, audio, and documents into a single embedding space. Google says it is in public preview through the Gemini API and Vertex AI and is designed for multimodal retrieval and classification.
Google AI Studio said in a March 19, 2026 post on X that its vibe coding workflow now supports multiplayer collaboration, live data connections, persistent builds, and shadcn, Framer Motion, and npm support. The update pushes AI Studio closer to a browser-based app-building environment instead of a prompt-only prototype tool.
Square Enix said on March 21, 2026 that it will integrate Google Gemini into Dragon Quest X and test a conversational companion that can answer questions, speak back to players, and surface destination hints. The beta is recruiting through March 30, 2026 as the company looks for ways to reduce onboarding friction in its long-running online RPG.
Google updated Gemini across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive to generate first drafts, build spreadsheets and presentations, and surface cited answers from Drive. The company also said Gemini in Sheets reached 70.48% on SpreadsheetBench.
Google said on March 19, 2026 that Google AI Studio now offers a full-stack vibe-coding experience powered by the Antigravity coding agent and Firebase integrations. The company says Build mode can generate multiplayer apps, manage server-side logic, store secrets securely, and wire up Google Maps and authentication flows from natural-language prompts.
At The Check Up on Mar 17, 2026, Google paired a $10 million clinician-AI education commitment with health upgrades across Search, YouTube, and Fitbit. The company is trying to combine easier-to-understand health information with more personalized wellness guidance built on consumer health data.
Google said on Mar 19, 2026 that it integrated AI contrail forecasts into American Airlines’ existing flight-planning software. Across a trial tied to 2,400 scheduled transatlantic flights, the company says flights that executed the avoidance plan saw a 62% lower contrail formation rate than the control group.
Google said on March 17, 2026 that Personal Intelligence is expanding in the U.S. across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and Gemini in Chrome. The feature connects services like Gmail and Google Photos so Google can answer with more user-specific shopping, travel, and troubleshooting help, and Google says it is available to free-tier users.
Google on Mar 12, 2026 introduced Groundsource, a Gemini-powered method for turning public reports into historical disaster data. The company says the system identified more than 2.6 million flood events across over 150 countries and now supports urban flash-flood forecasts up to 24 hours in advance.
Google on Mar 17, 2026 introduced new Gemini API features for agentic workflows, including combined built-in and custom tools, context circulation across tool calls, and Maps grounding for Gemini 3. The update is designed to reduce orchestration work for complex multi-step applications.
Google AI said on March 18, 2026 that Stitch is evolving from a Labs experiment into an AI design canvas that turns prompts into production-ready front-end code. Google's blog adds that the new Stitch combines an infinite multimodal canvas, a project-wide design agent, an Agent manager for parallel ideas, agent-friendly DESIGN.md files, instant interactive prototypes, and voice-driven edits.
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.