Google

November 2026

• Google open-sources a design-first plugin for AI coding (opens in a new tab)

  11-01 · Release · opensource.googleblog.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Google released the Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin under Apache 2.0.

October 2026

• Google to honour a shared AI training opt-out (opens in a new tab)

  10-31 · News · developers.google.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Google says it plans to support a shared AI training control in robots.txt, based on the IETF AIPREF work.

• Google tells users Jules winds down on December 31 (opens in a new tab)

  10-30 · News · jules.google ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Google is shutting down Jules, its asynchronous coding agent.

• Gemini 4 Argon's introductory rate gets an end date with GA (opens in a new tab)

  10-14 · Release · ai.google.dev ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Google's Gemini API pricing page took Gemini 4 Argon on with general availability on 2026-10-13.

• Gemini 4 Argon reaches GA on Copilot and AI Gateway the same day (opens in a new tab)

  10-14 · Release · blog.google ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Gemini 4 Argon, the frontier model Google announced on September 30 with first access restricted to Fairwind.

• Google announces Gemini 4 Argon for long-horizon work (opens in a new tab)

  10-01 · Release · blog.google ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on 30 September, pitched at long-horizon professional tasks: software.

September 2026

• Gemini gets a real-time talking avatar, enterprise-only (opens in a new tab)

  09-26 · Release · deepmind.google ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar on 2026-09-24: real-time video generation paired with speech.

• Google confirms new Gemini model broke AI Mode citations (opens in a new tab)

  09-04 · News · x.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Gemini 3.8 Flash stopped showing links and citations in Google AI Mode results.

• Search Console's AI-search performance reports go global (opens in a new tab)

  09-01 · Release · searchenginejournal.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Google made Search Console's generative AI performance reports available to every site worldwide.

August 2026

• Open-sources Credentio, the C2PA library its products run on (opens in a new tab)

  08-15 · Release · developers.googleblog.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Credentio, now open source, is a C++ library for locally validating C2PA Content Credentials.

July 2026

• Says llms.txt buys nothing in Search, as Lighthouse checks it (opens in a new tab)

  07-28 · News · developers.google.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Two older Google positions on llms.txt surfaced together.