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Google reviewed a range of artificial intelligence updates it announced during August 2026, from Gemini 3.7 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe to integrating Gemini into Pixel 11 devices, search tools, and productivity tools. The company says the Gemini app has surpassed one billion monthly users, with use cases expanding to include programming, education, media generation, and weather forecasting.
Google DeepMind says WeatherNext models trained on 50 years of weather data can improve forecasts of hurricane tracks and intensity and run on a single TPU processor instead of massive supercomputers. The company is making WeatherNext 2 and hurricane models open source through the Weather Lab website, as weather agencies move toward extending public forecast horizons from five days to seven.