Google Drive's AI ransomware detection and recovery feature is now generally available with 14x improved detection. But Google's history of false-positive account bans raises questions about relying on Drive as primary storage.
Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4: four models—31B dense, 26B MoE (A4B), E4B, and E2B—with a 256K context, multimodal input, tool calling, and support for 140 languages.
An AI system that automatically reviews Linux kernel patches. Detected 53.6% of known bugs that passed human review. Rust implementation supports both Gemini and Claude.
A week that shook trust in both people and software: three former Google engineers were indicted over alleged transfers of sensitive information to Iran, while NetEase's MuMu Player was found running 17 reconnaissance commands on macOS every 30 minutes.
Two examples of existing platforms going deeper on AI integration: Slack's MCP server and real-time search API, and Google Gemini's Lyria 3-based music generation.
Google has launched a public preview of the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server, letting generative AI tools access official documentation for Google Cloud, Android, Firebase, and other Google technologies.
Testing the image generation features of Flow, now available in Google AI Pro. Findings on the He/She pronoun issue, the effectiveness of natural English prompts, and how to use Flow vs Gem.
