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Google Research is releasing a building-level rooftop reflectivity dataset covering more than 50 cities, paired with a new Earth Engine app, to help urban planners target cool-roof interventions.
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A new research-preview benchmark gives model builders a reproducible way to measure how well AI agents handle real AWS infrastructure work.
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Google Research's new memory framework helps deployed agents extract generalizable strategies from both successful and failed task attempts.
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Google's Empirical Research Assistance tool, which uses Gemini to write and optimize scientific code, is described in a new Nature paper and is now rolling out through Google Labs.
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A Google Research system published in Nature estimates heart rate and resting heart rate from brief facial video captured passively during normal smartphone use.
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Google Research has published its flood forecasting framework on GitHub, letting meteorological agencies train their own AI models using the same architecture that powers Flood Hub.
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Google Research and Google Cloud have jointly built a multi-agent retrieval framework that chains searches across data sources to answer queries standard RAG systems routinely fail.
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A new cache management approach from Google Research treats memory as a variable utility cost, using a ski-rental algorithm and lightweight ML to shrink RAM spend without hurting performance.
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Google Research has released details on SensorFM, a foundation model pre-trained on sensor data from five million people that aims to generalize across dozens of health prediction tasks.
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A paper presented at ICLR 2026 traces the mathematical roots of generative creativity in diffusion models to a smoothing effect inherent in neural network training.