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Groundsource: using AI to help communities better predict natural disasters Groundsource is a new AI-powered methodology from Google Research that transforms millions of public records into actionable data.

3) That data was used to train a new model designed to help predict flash floods in urban areas up to 24 hours in advance.

Learn more about Groundsource → goo.gle/3NzOX2k

1) It used Gemini to analyze decades of public reports and identified over 2.6 million historical flood events from 150+ countries.
2) It then used @GoogleMaps to determine precise geographic boundaries for each event to create a dataset focused on flash floods.

Groundsource is a new AI-powered methodology that transforms millions of public reports into a high-quality record of historical disaster data to aid crisis prediction.

Here’s how it works 🧵⬇️

A new era of gaming: How the next generation of play is being redefined by AI agents | Google Cloud Blog Google Cloud is helping game studios use AI to automate tedious development tasks and create "living" worlds where characters and environments can think and evolve on their own.

Game development costs have surged 90% since 2017. 📈 At GDC 2026, Google Cloud shared how they're helping game studios reclaim their "creative stamina" by using AI to automate tedious tasks like playtesting and code generation. Learn more → goo.gle/4bqr1qb

How is Google not done mapping the world yet?? YouTube video by Morning Brew

Go along with @morningbrew.bsky.social and the Google Maps team to Sarajevo to capture imagery in Bosnia, one of our newest Street View locations, and learn how we map the world and keep it up to date. youtu.be/M8G44b0mljw?...

AlphaGo at 10: How AI Innovation Is Paving the Path to AGI Ten years since AlphaGo, we explore how its search and learning methods are catalyzing scientific discovery and paving a path to AGI.

AlphaGo won with the help of “Move 37,” a play so unconventional experts thought it was a mistake. That win helped herald the modern era of AI and led to a decade of scientific discovery.

Read the full reflection on the journey from AlphaGo to AGI by Demis Hassabis → goo.gle/4rjVjAH

10 years ago, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo became the first program to beat a world champion at Go — a game with more moves than atoms in the universe. ⚫⚪✨

How our open-source AI model SpeciesNet is helping to promote wildlife conservation An overview of SpeciesNet, our open-source AI model that is helping people around the world protect and conserve wildlife.

We launched it as a free, open-source tool a year ago, and today, research groups are using it to make sense of their camera data faster than ever. See how our open-source Earth AI model SpeciesNet is helping to promote wildlife monitoring and conservation worldwide. goo.gle/4riXtRk

SpeciesNet is an Earth AI model trained to automatically identify nearly 2,500 categories of mammals, birds and reptiles from data captured by motion-triggered wildlife cameras.

Google I/O, our annual developer conference, is back May 19-20. 🚀 Tune in to learn about our latest breakthroughs and updates in products across the company, from Gemini to Android and more with livestreamed keynotes and sessions at io.google.

The #GoogleIO puzzle is officially live. 🧩

You can play, remix, and help the community crack the code in real-time.

Are you ready to help us reach the goal? 🤝

Start here → goo.gle/iopuzzle26-6

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How we’re helping preserve the genetic information of endangered species with AI Scientists are working to sequence the genome of every known species on Earth.

4/ See how we're decoding life on Earth to protect it for future generations → goo.gle/4qckKn8

3/ To expand this mission, the Google.org AI for Science fund is funding the sequencing of 150 additional endangered species — like the African penguin and Grevy’s zebra. This data will be openly released for the public and scientists to use in conservation.

2/ We’re helping @rockefeller.edu and the @ebpgenome.bsky.social preserve the genetic information of every species on Earth. This gives researchers the data they need to prevent further loss of biodiversity.

Decoding Life on Earth | Google and the Earth Biogenome Project Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

It once took 13 years and $3 billion to sequence the human genome.

Now, we're using Google’s AI tools to sequence animal genomes in just days to help save endangered species 🧬 (1/4) ↓

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Exclusive | Google Aims Knockout Blow at Chinese Company Linked to Massive Cyber Weapon The company is targeting a global network employed by hackers and criminals that often uses devices silently running in the homes of everyday Americans.

Check out this @wsj.com feature about recent work by the Google Threat Intelligence Group to successfully disrupt IPIDEA, a large residential proxy network that served as the digital camouflage for over 550 threat groups globally. www.wsj.com/tech/google-...

It’s a sunny day on YouTube, with more than 100 “Sesame Street” episodes available to watch for free. YouTube announced it’s now the largest digital library of Sesame Street content.

The letter of the day is Y for YouTube: Today, YouTube announced it’s now the largest digital library of "Sesame Street" content. More than 100 full "Sesame Street" episodes from previous seasons are now available on YouTube and the YouTube Kids app for the first time. Learn more → goo.gle/4b2x5qf

4. When it comes to Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app, you are in control.

You can disconnect your apps, adjust your settings, or delete your chat history at any time.

Learn more about how we protect your data → goo.gle/3YBsLH8

3. We’re still learning (and so is Gemini).

We’ve tested this beta extensively, but it might still make mistakes or connect unrelated dots. If Gemini gets it wrong, just tell it.

2. Gemini will try to reference or explain the information it used from your connected sources so you can verify it. If it doesn’t, you can ask it for more information.

1. You decide if and when to connect your apps. This new beta feature is off by default.

You choose which apps to connect, and you can disconnect them anytime.

Today we’re introducing Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app, a new feature that, with your permission, can securely connect info from Google apps like Gmail, Google Photos, Search & YouTube history to make Gemini uniquely helpful.

More on how we built this with user control on the center 🧵↓

You can now verify Google AI-generated videos in the Gemini app. We’re expanding our content transparency tools to help you more easily identify AI-generated content. You can now check if a video was edited or created with Google AI d…

Gemini will scan for the imperceptible SynthID watermark across both the audio and visual tracks, specifying which segments contain AI-generated elements.

Learn more ↓ goo.gle/455LSMY

You can now verify Google AI-generated images and videos in the Gemini app ✅

We’re expanding our content transparency tools to help you more easily identify content generated by Google AI. Just upload an image or video file and ask, "Was this generated using Google AI?"

Introducing Gemini 3 Flash, our frontier intelligence model, available at scale for everyone. It excels at coding, tool calling, and is stronger than 2.5 Pro across most metrics!! ⚡️

Available in the API at $0.50 in / 1M tokens and $3.00 out / 1M tokens across. x.com/OfficialLoga...

Gemini 3 Flash is here, bringing a ‘huge’ upgrade to the Gemini app AI responses in a flash.

Gemini 3 Flash is here, bringing a ‘huge’ upgrade to the Gemini app

I’m really excited about our release of Gemini 3 today, the result of hard work by many, many people in the Gemini team and all across Google! 🎊

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Gemini 3 performs quite well on a wide range of benchmarks.

Exclusive: Google and McLaren extend partnership deal Google is extending its multiyear agreement with the team and shifting its focus from Chrome to Gemini.

Ahead of this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix, we’re extending our partnership with the McLaren Formula 1 team, placing Gemini at the heart of the team’s operations. Learn more in Marketing Brew. www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2025...

Gemini 3 has arrived! 🚀

Here are three things to know about our most intelligent model.