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We're shipping big updates to Ask Maps! Since we've launched Ask Maps, I've been inspired by how people are using Google Maps in totally new ways to ask the questions really on their minds. Building on that, we're expanding Ask Maps to 150+ markets in English and rolling out: 🍔 Food ordering with partners like Square and Toast, with Uber Eats coming soon 🧠 Personal Intelligence with Gmail integration 🚆 Real-time transit info 🗺️ Suggest tips and edits conversationally

Our WeatherNext 2 AI model from @GoogleDeepMind and @GoogleResearch can predict tropical cyclones with an extra day of lead time. Now, we’re open sourcing the model. Published in @Nature, Google researchers demonstrate how it delivers roughly a decade's worth of weather forecasting progress in a single jump. Here's how it works:

Predicting cyclones accurately can help save lives - and every hour of lead time counts. Published in @Nature, our AI model WeatherNext achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in forecasting a storm’s track and intensity, giving us a critical extra 24 hours to prepare on average. 🧵

Meet the Gemma Translator! A fully offline device powered by Gemma 4 E2B built with @Antigravity. Running entirely on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a connected microphone and speaker, this highly portable prototype is housed inside a custom, 3D-printed case.

This March, we introduced Ask Maps, the biggest @googlemaps update in a decade. Now, we’re making it even more helpful and bringing it to more people. 🌏 Expanded availability: Rolling out in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan and Mexico, along with over 150 countries and territories in English. ✨Get more done with Ask Maps: Including complex, multi-step tasks, like ordering food – along with finding the perfect hotel or discovering nearby events. ⌚Real-time transit information: Stay informed about up-to-the-minute delays and conditions for your bus, train, and more. 💬Personal intelligence and past conversations: Choose to securely connect @Gmail so Ask Maps can automatically reference booking details, like a hotel reservation or flight information. You can also pick up conversations just where you left them. 🗣️An easier way to help your community: Share tips and suggest edits to a place conversationally, like changing a store’s hours, right in Ask Maps and the Contribute tab.

Ask Maps is getting an upgrade. 🔍✨ Now powered by agentic capabilities, real-time information, and Personal Intelligence, Ask Maps is transforming how you plan and move through the world.

ICYMI: our July AI recap ⬇️ 🌦️ Advanced weather forecasting with @NOAA and Google Cloud, using high-performance H4D virtual machines to run its atmospheric models, providing meteorologists with the AI capabilities needed to deliver life-saving early warnings. 💻 Introduced 3 new Gemini models — Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber — to deliver the efficiency, latency, and reliability to build AI agents at scale. 🇺🇸 Launched the Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades With BlackRock, Carhartt, and Ford to build a stronger pipeline for the skilled trades, scale evidence-based training approaches, and expand opportunities nationwide. ☁️ Rolled out AlphaEvolve, our Gemini-powered AI code-optimization agent, to help Cloud customers solve their hardest problems by automatically searching for better solutions and returning human-readable, optimized code. 🎵 Delivered significant advancements in musicality, lyrics, and vocal quality in Google Flow Music with Lyria 3.5, our newest music generation model. 📡 Launched three new FireSat satellites, expanding a global initiative led by the Earth Fire Alliance (EFA) with @GoogleResearch to help detect wildfires before they spread. 🧪 Established over 15 global bioresilience partnerships across governments, research groups, and biosecurity organizations to prevent model misuse, detect outbreaks rapidly, and deliver swift, coordinated responses in partnership with @IsomorphicLabs.

5️⃣ Know when your price is right Model different pricing tiers or subscription models in Canvas based on your material costs, platform fees, and shipping expenses to find your break-even point.

Launch your side hustle with @GeminiApp using these five tips ↓ No massive budget or months of planning needed. Here’s how: 🧵 1️⃣ Turn your ideas into a business plan Notebooks in Gemini let you create a centralized command center with all of your chats, files, references, and brainstorm notes, giving your ideas organization and continuity, making them easier to manage in one place.

To switch phones, you have to be open to what’s new. And to what opens. Google #Pixel11# Pro Fold. Ask more of your phone. August 12. Learn more and sign up for #MadeByGoogle# updates:

This all works while protecting against security threats like prompt injection. Auto browse is designed to keep you in control by handing sensitive actions, like payments, back to you for confirmation. This integration is rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S., and will expand to additional regions in the future. Learn more ↓

Gemini Spark can now tap into @GoogleChrome’s auto browse feature to take care of complex errands for you online 🔎 With your permission, Gemini Spark can use your logged-in accounts to take care of tasks like scheduling viewings for apartments you've saved or researching flight options and starting the booking process.

Raph vibe coded an e-ink picture frame with Gemini 3.6 Flash and Nano Banana that helps his family start their day. Learn how he did it using @Antigravity and follow the open source guide to build your own too.

Gemini Spark is now also starting to roll out to Google AI Pro subscribers in the U.S., and we'll be bringing it to AI Pro subscribers in more countries soon. More info on where Gemini Spark is available here: