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Google Previews CodeMender: DeepMind-Engineered AI Agent for Automated Vulnerability Remediation

Google Cloud has made CodeMender, an autonomous AI code security agent developed with Google DeepMind, available in public preview on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The tool is designed to scan software codebases, verify discovered security flaws through simulated exploits in isolated sandboxes, and automatically generate tested code patches. CodeMender represents an operational shift from passive static analysis to autonomous remediation. Rather than delivering raw alerts to developers,

Federal Judge Partially Overturns Conviction of Ex-Google Engineer Linwei Ding in AI Trade Secrets Case

A federal judge in San Francisco has overturned the economic espionage convictions of former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, while upholding his conviction on seven counts of stealing proprietary artificial intelligence trade secrets. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled on Thursday that federal prosecutors failed to present sufficient evidence demonstrating that Ding intended or knew his actions would benefit the government of China. Under federal statutes, establishing direct or ind

Adobe Firefly Expands Generative Audio Tools and Integrates Gemini Omni Flash

Adobe has broadened its generative production suite with the general availability of three dedicated AI audio generation modules in Adobe Firefly, alongside the integration of Google's multimodal Gemini Omni Flash model. The audio capabilities expand Firefly from static imagery and video synthesis into integrated soundtrack design, voice synthesis, and scene audio generation, fully cleared for commercial workflows. Generative Audio Modules and Commercial Licensing The expanded audio suite in

Google's Gemma Open Models Pass 1 Billion Downloads as Variants Top 100,000

Google DeepMind announced that its Gemma family of open-weight models has surpassed one billion cumulative downloads since its initial launch in early 2024. Alongside the download milestone, the laboratory reported that third-party developers have published more than 100,000 distinct fine-tuned variants and derivative architectures across community model hubs. The milestone marks the first cumulative adoption metrics released by Google for the Gemma ecosystem. To accompany the figures, Google l

Google DeepMind Deploys Backstory to Fact-Checkers for Multi-Agent AI Image Verification

Google DeepMind has expanded live testing of Backstory, an experimental verification platform designed to investigate the origin, manipulation, and dissemination history of digital images. The system, built on the Gemini model family, is currently deployed across newsrooms, open-source intelligence (OSINT) groups, academic researchers, and fact-checking teams participating in Google's Trusted Testers program. Beyond Binary Synthetic Detection Traditional automated image forensic tools typical

Google Launches Gemini Student Hub with Interactive 3D Simulations and Background Research

Google has launched a dedicated suite of education tools across Google Search and the Gemini assistant, introducing an integrated student hub, interactive 3D simulations, multi-document synthesis, and asynchronous background research. The rollout is designed to centralize study workflows within Google's ecosystem while expanding the modal capabilities of Gemini for scientific and conceptual analysis. Integrated Student Hub and Study Notebooks The core of the update is a specialized hub withi

Marvell Issues Google 2.2B Stock Warrant in Custom AI Silicon Deal

Marvell Technology has granted Alphabet's Google a warrant to purchase up to 58.9 million shares of common stock at an exercise price of $206.58 per share, establishing an equity arrangement valued at up to $12.18 billion. The agreement expands the companies' partnership to co-develop custom artificial intelligence silicon, specialized networking, and next-generation datacenter infrastructure. Following the announcement, Marvell shares rose more than 11% in premarket trading, while primary cust

Google Opens Gemini in Chrome to All U.S. Android Users and Extends Auto Browse to Mobile

Google expanded Gemini in Chrome to all Android users across the United States on August 18, 2026. The update introduces the browser's built-in AI assistant to mobile handsets and extends "auto browse," Google's agentic web automation feature, to smartphones for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers. The Android rollout follows the initial launch of Gemini in Chrome for desktop environments in September 2025. On mobile devices, the assistant provides on-page article summaries, contextual answe

Google paid $10M at auction for Spirit Airlines data to train AI

Google says AI helped build the first known zero-day exploit

Google now lets users strip the visible watermark from its AI images, video, and audio

Google said Friday it will let users remove the visible watermark from its AI-generated images, video, and audio. The company said turning off the visible mark does not affect the invisible SynthID watermark or the C2PA metadata used to identify an AI-generated file. Josh Woodward, Google's vice president for Gemini, announced the change in a post on X. The invisible SynthID signal and the C2PA provenance data stay in place, so machines can still tell a file was generated even after the visible

Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash, halves the cost of its coding workhorse

Google's new Flash model scores higher on coding benchmarks and costs half its standard rate, at least through the end of 2026.

Gemini is quietly losing ground to ChatGPT and Claude

Three datasets now show Google's Gemini losing users to ChatGPT and Claude.

Gemini crosses 1 billion monthly active users, Pichai says

Google Retrofits Gemma 4 Into a Diffusion Model, No Retraining From Scratch

Google folds DeepMind into the main business as Hassabis signals an exit

Google DeepMind is losing the independent status it held since the lab's founding, and founder Demis Hassabis may leave the company in the coming months, according to multiple reports. A former Google manager told the Guardian that the 'era of DeepMind as an independent actor is over,' and a current DeepMind employee now describes the lab as 'just another subdivision' of Google. Day-to-day operations are shifting to AI researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu from the United States, but he is not taking th

Google Sets September 4 Deadline for Assistant Shutdown as Gemini Takes Over

Google will begin removing Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, headphones, and Android Auto vehicles starting September 4, 2026. The company emailed existing users on August 4 confirming the timeline, with the rollout expected to take several weeks to reach all devices. Once removed, users will not be able to switch back to Assistant. Gemini, Google's AI-powered replacement, is now the default assistant experience on Android. The transition had been planned since at

Jeff Dean Leaves Google After 27 Years to Co-Found Discovery Loop

Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean departs after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, as Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day DeepMind leadership.

Google Offloads $35 Billion in Anthropic Chip Risk via SPV Structure

Google has assembled one of the largest infrastructure financing programs in history to supply Anthropic with its proprietary AI chips while keeping the hardware off everyone's balance sheets, according to Financial Times reporting. The arrangement involves Google, Broadcom, Morgan Stanley, Apollo, Blackstone, and several cryptocurrency mining companies in a chain of deals designed to sidestep the balance-sheet constraints that would otherwise make the transaction impossible. How the st

Google Brings AI Model Routing to API Gateway

Google Cloud has added managed AI model routing to API Gateway, giving developers one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for models hosted through Vertex AI Model Garden. The feature is now in public preview and can direct requests to Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and OpenAI GPT-family models without requiring teams to operate a separate proxy service, according to Google's announcement. Routing moves into the gateway Developers define virtual model names and backend targets inside an OpenAPI 3.x s