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Decoupled post-training of vision-language models shows visual perception, not reasoning, is primary bottleneck in VLM performance.

ClinSeekAgent: agentic framework automating active multimodal evidence seeking across heterogeneous clinical data sources.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on stage at I/O 2026. | Screenshot: YouTube Google's I/O 2026 keynote today was once again full of AI-related announcements including a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, new features for Search and Gmail, and updates about its Project Aura smart glasses. If you weren't able to tune into the event's livestream today or follow along with our live blog, you can catch up on everything you missed in our roundup below. Gemini 3.5 Google launched updated AI models at I/O, starting with Gemini 3.5 Flash, with Gemini 3.5 Pro following next month. Starting today, Gemini 3.5 F...

AUDITS benchmark for image manipulation localization across domain shifts, quality, type, size; detects AI-generated forgeries.

Stochastic-deterministic boundary architecture primitive for production LLM agent runtimes; coordination, state, control patterns.

Answer Set Programming approach to long-term power grid planning under topological and demand constraints.

KoRe: integrating compact knowledge graphs with LLMs to address hallucination and knowledge update via human-readable representations.

HaorFloodAlert: deseasonalized ML ensemble for 72-hour flood prediction in Bangladesh haor wetlands with upstream data integration.

Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.

Policy-aware rubric reward aggregation for RLVR shows static weighting conflates importance and optimization utility in multi-criterion RL.

Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.

Google is making a big push into cybersecurity. At I/O, the company announced that it was inviting select groups of experts to test the API for CodeMender, an "AI agent for code security" it debuted last October. The difference is that Google is now making the tool more widely available externally - and marketing it as a way to, as Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu put it, "help secure the world's code bases" by both flagging and fixing vulnerabilities. Anthropic's surprise Claude Mythos Preview announcement seemed to shock the AI world - and a ton of others, like top banks and the Federa...

p-ResNet-50 adds prototype layer to CNNs for interpretable aerospace composite defect detection via X-ray tomography.

Causal evaluation framework assesses faithfulness of vision-language model visual attribution in chest X-ray diagnosis.

SAGE counterfactual ensemble reduces false positives in music streaming fraud detection via confident negative harvesting.

Unverified Reddit claim about Google's multi-agent system generating an OS; lacks technical details, reproducibility, or official confirmation.

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Google Workspace adds voice capabilities to Gmail/Docs/Keep and launches Google Pics design tool.

Google I/O 2026: Gemini advances toward agentic AI with expanded action capabilities.

Google advances search with integrated AI capabilities, combining search engine with AI benefits.

Google introduces $100 AI Ultra subscription tier with new features across AI Plus/Pro/Ultra plans.

Google I/O 2026 announcements on AI products and capabilities across services.

Google Search AI Mode shows shift from keyword to natural language queries after one year.

Google releases Gemini 3.5 model family combining frontier intelligence with action capabilities.

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build Android apps faster from the command line.

The tech giant says it's aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why it's launching Universal Cart.

At the I/O developer conference, Google announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.

Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update