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Google hires a Nobel economist to figure out what AI is actually doing to jobs
Philippe Aghion, Ajay Agrawal and two new program directors join Google's AI & Economy team to track how the technology reshapes work, wages and small business.

Google helped two designers build their own AI tools for Fashion Week. Here is what they actually did with them.
Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson used Google Flow to pre-style models and stage a runway on budget. The results walked at NYFW.

Google bets 13 billion euros on Finland in its biggest European investment ever
The tech giant will pour 13 billion euros into AI data-centre infrastructure in Finland, drawn by available land, a cold climate and an unusually reliable power grid.

Christina Koch and James Manyika on Earth as a lifeboat, AI in space, and whether we're alone
The NASA astronaut and Google's research chief talk through what she saw from orbit, why AI matters to future missions, and the advice she gives young explorers.

Half of scientists now reach for AI every day, Google's global data shows
Google's ATLAS project maps who is really using AI at work, and the answers cut across countries and jobs in surprising ways.

Google publishes AI case studies on disease, disasters and schooling
The company's new collection shows AI already at work in clinics, classrooms and emergency planning, but the overview skips hard numbers on who actually benefits.

Google says 300 languages, on-device translation, and a voice AI that runs over a phone call
The 86% figure is the headline. The more interesting engineering is aimed at the other billion.

Google says its AI now touches 300 languages and 7 billion people. Here's what that actually means.
From spotting missed breast cancers to warning Jamaicans about a hurricane, Google is rolling out AI tools that reach far beyond the chatbot.

Enterprise AI coverage dropped 73% in our newsroom last week. Here is what that actually means.
We ran four enterprise AI stories in the week to 13 September, down from fifteen the week before. That is a measurement of our news cycle, not the market.

How Google's AI Search Wants to Coach Your Next Marathon
Google is pitching AI Mode as a race-day assistant, from training plans to playlists to gear shopping. Here is what it actually does.

Google's AI Weather Model Gives Forecasters an Extra Day to Warn People About Hurricanes
A new study in Nature finds that Google's WeatherNext model predicts cyclone paths three days out with the same accuracy older systems only managed two days out. That extra 24 hours could matter enormously for evacuation decisions.

AI Chatbots Are Starting to Watermark Their Text. Here's What That Actually Means
Anthropic and Google are quietly embedding invisible patterns into AI-written words. The technique is nearly undetectable, but critics argue it still changes what you read.

Microsoft just patched 979 software flaws. AI attacks are why that number keeps climbing.
September's security update from Microsoft is the largest on record. Researchers say the surge reflects a race against AI tools that can find and weaponise software weaknesses faster than companies can fix them.

Google's AI weather model gets a satellite upgrade, here's what changes
WeatherNext Gen 3 now pulls in raw satellite data, which means fresher forecasts that cost far less to run than traditional weather models.

Chrome now updates every two weeks. Here's why AI made that urgent.
Google cut Chrome's update cycle in half this week, pushing fresh versions to your browser every 14 days instead of every 28. Security pressures tied to AI tools are the main reason.