AI IN LIFE – Google & DeepMindhttps://ai-in-life.com/en/topic/google/AI IN LIFE – Google & DeepMindenGoogle CC: AI Agent for Families Enters Testinghttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-announces-new-experimental-cc-ai-agent-for-families/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-announces-new-experimental-cc-ai-agent-for-families/The household agent gets its own Google account, pools mail from schools and clubs for up to six people, and stays US-only for adults 18 and over.TOOLSSun, 20 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700Gemini Accessed Three Real Companies in a Security Testhttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/fehlkonfiguration-im-test-gemini-greift-auf-drei-echte/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/fehlkonfiguration-im-test-gemini-greift-auf-drei-echte/A misconfigured evaluation environment handed Google's model live internet access; Google says Gemini aborted each intrusion on its own.MODELSSun, 20 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700Google DeepMind sets up an institute for AGI debatehttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-deepmind-launches-institute-to-widen-the-agi-debate/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-deepmind-launches-institute-to-widen-the-agi-debate/Shane Legg, James Manyika and Demis Hassabis open the DeepMind Institute with four essays, and they say disagreement is the point.MODELSFri, 18 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Talk Safety Standardshttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/openai-anthropic-google-have-been-in-talks-on-ai-safety-for/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/openai-anthropic-google-have-been-in-talks-on-ai-safety-for/OpenAI's policy chief confirms weeks of safety coordination with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as the White House plays the risks down.REGULATIONThu, 17 Sep 2026 10:40:02 +0700Ex-Google Researcher Warns of the Death of Humanityhttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/kuenstliche-intelligenz-ex-google-mitarbeiter-warnt-vor/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/kuenstliche-intelligenz-ex-google-mitarbeiter-warnt-vor/A former Google AI safety researcher joins the chorus of warnings. The detailed reasoning could not be checked before publication of this report.SECURITYThu, 17 Sep 2026 10:40:02 +0700Gemini 3.8 Live puts voice agents into productionhttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/introducing-gemini-3-8-live-and-3-8-live-extended-thinking/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/introducing-gemini-3-8-live-and-3-8-live-extended-thinking/Google's two native speech-to-speech models bill audio by the minute, top the Artificial Analysis index at 82.6, and ship with no open weights.MODELSThu, 17 Sep 2026 10:40:02 +0700Google trains query fan-out offline to cut search latencyhttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/bypassing-inference-bottlenecks-accelerating-complex-ai/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/bypassing-inference-bottlenecks-accelerating-complex-ai/The fan-out step that normally burns hundreds of reasoning tokens per search is moved into training, leaving a 53.9-million-parameter model.RESEARCHThu, 17 Sep 2026 10:40:02 +0700Vinyals: AI will self-improve, but won't explodehttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/ex-deepmind-vp-vinyals-says-ai-self-improvement-is-coming/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/ex-deepmind-vp-vinyals-says-ai-self-improvement-is-coming/The former DeepMind research lead expects at least a tenfold research speedup, yet says two bottlenecks rule out an abrupt intelligence explosion.MODELSSat, 12 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700Fanuc and Google build a welding robot that reads planshttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/japan-s-fanuc-google-team-up-on-ai-automated-welding-robots/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/japan-s-fanuc-google-team-up-on-ai-automated-welding-robots/The robots are meant to work straight from engineering drawings instead of code. Shipments start in December; Nikkei gives no price and no customer.ROBOTICSFri, 11 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700Bad Gemini Advice Ends in a Mount Shasta Rescuehttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/ki-bergsteiger-planen-tour-mit-gemini-und-muessen-gerettet/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/ki-bergsteiger-planen-tour-mit-gemini-und-muessen-gerettet/A group underestimated Mount Shasta and needed rescue after Google's Gemini gave poor guidance, according to Golem. Key details remain unconfirmed.GOOGLETue, 08 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700Google open-sources Mantis to cut scanner false alarmshttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-mantis-an-agentic-vulnerability-scanning-harness-for/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-mantis-an-agentic-vulnerability-scanning-harness-for/The framework chains specialized agents, reproduces findings in a sandbox, and cuts token use for code intake by 85 percent, Google says.SECURITYTue, 08 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700AIHawk: an open-source browser agent that speaks MCPhttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/feder-cr-aihawk-open-source-ai-browser-agent-for-web/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/feder-cr-aihawk-open-source-ai-browser-agent-for-web/The MIT-licensed project drives a real browser from plain English, either as an MCP server for coding assistants or through a local web interface.TOOLSMon, 07 Sep 2026 15:19:10 +0700One terminal cockpit for Claude, Gemini and other agentshttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/asheshgoplani-agent-deck-terminal-session-manager-for-ai/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/asheshgoplani-agent-deck-terminal-session-manager-for-ai/Agent Deck is a Go-based TUI that keeps sessions for Claude Code, Gemini CLI and six other agents in one place, with a cost dashboard.TOOLSMon, 07 Sep 2026 15:19:10 +0700Google puts Lyria 3.5 music AI inside the Gemini apphttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-bringt-musikgenerierung-mit-lyria-3-5-direkt-in-die/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-bringt-musikgenerierung-mit-lyria-3-5-direkt-in-die/The model writes vocals and arrangements on request and also runs in Flow Music, AI Studio and Vids. Google says training data was licensed.MODELSMon, 07 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700WeatherNext 3: Google's weather AI now refreshes hourlyhttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/introducing-weathernext-3-our-most-advanced-and-accurate/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/introducing-weathernext-3-our-most-advanced-and-accurate/Hourly runs at 5-kilometer resolution, satellite data fed straight in, and a rollout across Search, Gemini and Maps since September 3.RESEARCHSat, 05 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700WeatherNext 3 sharpens Google's rain and snow forecastshttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-says-its-ai-weather-model-is-getting-better/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-says-its-ai-weather-model-is-getting-better/Google's new model resolves core variables at 5 km, refreshes them hourly, and reports a 60 percent gain over WeatherNext 2 on precipitation.TOOLSFri, 04 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700Gemini 3.8 Flash ships; cyber variant is gatedhttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/introducing-gemini-3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/introducing-gemini-3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/Google's new Flash model starts at $0.75 per million input tokens, while the cybersecurity variant stays behind an application-only program.MODELSThu, 03 Sep 2026 10:44:44 +0700Google to unveil two custom AI chips a year, not onehttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-to-speed-up-chip-rollout-to-stay-ahead-in-ai/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-to-speed-up-chip-rollout-to-stay-ahead-in-ai/The AI infrastructure chief says the two-year generation cycle is over; Google also wants 60 percent more space in Taiwan.CHIPSThu, 03 Sep 2026 10:44:44 +0700Gemini gains agentic video understandinghttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/introducing-agentic-video-understanding-with-gemini/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/introducing-agentic-video-understanding-with-gemini/Google DeepMind lets Gemini decide which parts of a video to watch. The company reports up to 88 percent fewer tokens on long clips.RESEARCHWed, 02 Sep 2026 10:40:02 +0700Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 stretches clips to 40 secondshttps://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-erweitert-video-ki-gemini-omni-flash-auf-version-1-1/https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/google-erweitert-video-ki-gemini-omni-flash-auf-version-1-1/Google's video model now extends clips in ten-second steps, upscales output to 4K and adds a cheaper, faster 360p preview mode.TOOLSMon, 31 Aug 2026 10:40:02 +0700