#Google Research
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Google's New Forest Map Can Tell a Rainforest From a Palm Oil Farm, Pixel by Pixel
ForTy classifies every 10-metre patch of land into six forest types, with a year-by-year record from 2017 to 2025.

Google's AI chief says the biggest breakthroughs happen where AI meets biology, energy, and manufacturing
Yossi Matias, who leads Google Research, told MIT Technology Review's EmTech Future 2026 that AI's real power shows up not inside any single field but at the borders between them. What that means for ordinary workers.

A Fruit Fly's Brain Is Now Generating Magazine Story Ideas, and It's Not as Crazy as It Sounds
Researchers mapped every neuron in a real fly's brain and open-sourced it. Now people are using that map to pitch articles, trade stocks, and play video games. Wired AI's Will Knight reports on where this is actually heading.

Google studied 15 million real AI interactions and found workers aren't automating themselves out of a job
A new Google Research paper looked at how people actually use Gemini at work. The headline finding: AI helps with pieces of tasks, but end-to-end job replacement is rare.

Google's TabFM learns to predict from data it has never trained on
A new AI model from Google Research can analyse a spreadsheet it has never seen before and return a prediction in a single step, no custom training required.