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May 19, 2026 Science How WeatherNext helped the National Hurricane Center better predict Hurricane Melissa’s historic landfall in Jamaica WeatherNext team The National Hurricane Center was able to issue advanced weather warnings to give communities in Jamaica additional lead time to prepare, evacuate, and help protect livelihoods In October
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As generative media becomes more advanced and accessible, it’s helpful to know where content comes from, and whether it’s been altered. Today, we’re expanding our content transparency and verification tools in Search, Gemini, Chrome, Pixel and Cloud, and deepening our partnership with the broader industry. Scaling our
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May 19, 2026 Science Co-Scientist team Introducing a collaborative AI partner for researchers to develop new hypotheses in life sciences and beyond. Every great scientific breakthrough begins with a single, transformative idea. The spark of discovery relies on a researcher's ability to connect disparate facts and formulate the
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May 19, 2026 Explore the future of discovery with new Science Skills in Google Antigravity and three new experimental tools on Google Labs. These tools are designed to help accelerate core steps of the scientific method, built with Co-Scientist, Alpha Evolve, Empirical Research Assistance and NotebookLM. For centuries, the scientific
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May 19, 2026 Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows. Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.5, our latest family of models combining frontier intelligence with action. This represents a major leap forward in building more capable, intelligent agents. We’re kicking off the series
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Google Search is getting a new AI Search box. * Search information agents monitor topics in the background. * Agentic coding lets you build small apps in Search. Remember when Google Search felt simple? I'd
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Google has introduced a cheaper AI Ultra plan at $100 a month. * The full Ultra Plan is now $50 cheaper at $200 a month. * Certain AI Pro subscribers also get YouTube Premium Lite for free.
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Google Omni aims to do for video what Nano Banana did for images. * Creators can build videos from text, images, audio, or video. * AI avatars could help creators, but raise trust concerns. Today, Google announced
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * OpenAI now uses C2PA metadata and SynthID watermarks. * Hidden pixel signals can help identify AI-generated images. * A public OpenAI verification tool is also rolling out. Today, OpenAI announced what it calls content provenance signals across
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Gemini Spark is Google’s take on a steroided-out assistant agent that knows everything about you, announced as part of the company’s updates to its Gemini chatbot app at this year’s I/O developer conference. Software companies have been talking up AI agents for some time now, but
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A wave of déjà vu washes over me as Elias Roman, vice president of product management at Google Labs, demos a new “avatar” feature for Flow, the company’s tool that lets users generate and remix AI videos and images. He previously scanned his likeness to create a digital clone
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AI agents are everywhere. Every briefing I’ve attended for software companies over the past year has involved some mention of agents—using generative AI tools to automate digital tasks. Despite breakout moments at the start of 2026, like the plucky OpenClaw agent that early adopters used to manage their
