The latest AI news we announced in June 2026
The latest AI news we announced in June 2026 For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, tools and infrastructure to build products that make everyday life better for more people. Teams across Google are working on ways to unlock AI’s benefits in fields as wide-ranging as healthcare, cri
Claude Sonnet 5
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the most agentic Sonnet model yet. It can make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals, and run autonomously at a level that, just a few months ago, required larger and more expensive models. For many developers, the agentic AI era began with Sonnet-class
Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash
Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash Today, we’re making it faster and easier to experiment, refine and scale your ideas with two major releases: - Introducing Nano Banana 2 Lite: Our fastest, most cost-efficient image model in the Nano Banana family yet, built for high throughput, speed and sca
Runway Announces Creative Partnership With Bertelsmann
Today, we’re announcing a creative partnership with the international media, services and education company Bertelsmann. As part of this agreement, Runway's AI models will be integrated across Bertelsmann’s global portfolio of businesses, including the RTL Group, BMG and Bertelsmann Marketing Services. "Content busines
Claude Science Ai Workbench
AI has the potential to dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and the development of healthcare interventions. Since launching our efforts in the life sciences last fall, we’ve worked to improve our model capabilities, make connections to the scientific ecosystem via MCPs and skills, and launch partn
ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration
Recent advances in coding agents have sparked excitement around AI-assisted modernization. But an important question remains: Can AI agents reliably modernize real-world enterprise applications? Existing software engineering benchmarks have demonstrated impressive progress in bug fixing and code generation, but framewo
Featuring Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model Pages
EEE launched in February 2026 as a project of the EvalEval Coalition, the first cross-institutional effort to improve how AI evaluation results get reported by both first and third party evaluators. Hugging Face launched Community Evals in February 2026 to decentralize how benchmark scores get reported on the Hub. Comb
Brain2qwerty Brain Ai Human Communication
Last year, we introduced Brain2Qwerty v1, research that uses AI to decode brain activity into text without any surgical implant. Now we're sharing the next step: Brain2Qwerty v2, the highest-performing end-to-end pipeline capable of real-time sentence decoding from non-invasive brain recordings, approaching levels of a
Runway And Mixi Announce Strategic Partnership
Today, we're announcing an enterprise partnership with MIXI, one of Japan's leading technology and entertainment companies. MIXI has deployed Runway across creative operations, spanning sports, lifestyle and digital entertainment. Going forward, MIXI and Runway plan to collaborate on new creative use cases and explore
Introducing GeneBench-Pro
Introducing GeneBench-Pro A research-level benchmark measuring how AI agents navigate ambiguity and make consequential judgments in computational biology. Scientific data rarely arrive with instructions. Researchers must decide whether a pattern reflects biology or noise, whether the data can support the question being
Inside Genebench-Pro
Inside Genebench-Pro A closer look at the benchmark, its questions, and supporting materials. These 10 case studies showcase representative questions from GeneBench-Pro. Each case study includes the original prompt, datasets, and supporting materials. For an overview of the benchmark and key findings, see the announcem
How ChatGPT adoption has expanded
ChatGPT adoption is widening and deepening around the world. New OpenAI Signals data shows that people use ChatGPT more often and for a broader range of tasks over time, while its user base is becoming more global and more diverse. Using aggregated data, OpenAI Signals measures how people interact with Individual ChatG
Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug
OpenAI’s models and agents increasingly rely on scalable data infrastructure in order to search for relevant data at inference time: when the models are thinking about your question. Some of these services are written in C++, whose low-level control of the system lets us maximize performance and minimize memory usage.
HP Inc. launches Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI
Enterprise transformation rarely starts all at once. More often, it begins when small teams prove a new way of working is possible. That was the case with HP Inc., which just announced it will scale activation of its OpenAI Frontier strategic partnership, following a series of successful pilots across different areas.
DiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributions
Many problems in machine learning and the sciences come down to the same task: you have a collection of data points and want to recover the distribution they came from—which values are common, and which are rare. Pinning down that distribution means estimating two quantities: the distribution's density and, more useful
Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI
HF Realtime Voice Voice chat over WebSocket against a HF speech-to-speech The result is a speech-to-speech experience that feels dramatically more natural. Instead of waiting for an AI to respond, conversations flow with the responsiveness users expect from human interaction. The demo is built as a real-time speech-to-
New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.
Technology can be a useful tool in the classroom as educators ask a critical question: How do we ensure today’s students are ready for tomorrow’s careers? To support them, Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders. The goal: drive knowledge shari
Chess openings: What is the Pirc Defense?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Pirc Defense: 5 quick facts - The Pirc Defense, named after Slovenian grandmaster Vasja Pirc, is a hypermodern opening for Black that only gained popularity in the 1950s. - Although i
Chess openings: What is the King’s Indian Defense?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! King’s Indian Defense: 4 quick facts - The King’s Indian Defense, also known as the KID, is a hypermodern, attacking Black response to 1. d4, and is a part of some top grandmasters’ r
Chess openings: What is the Queen’s Gambit?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Queen’s Gambit: 5 quick facts - Though recently popularized by the Netflix series of the same name, the Queen’s Gambit has actually been around for over five centuries. - It’s the mos
Chess openings: What is the Slav Defense?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Slav Defense: 3 quick facts - While first appearing in the late 1500s, the Slav Defense is named after a number of Slavic players who popularized this line in the 1900s. - It’s one of
Chess openings: What is the Catalan Opening?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Catalan Opening: 3 quick facts - The Catalan derives its name from a region in Spain called Catalonia and is a grandmaster favorite, frequently seen in top-level tournaments and world
Chess openings: What is the London System?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! London System: 5 quick facts - The London System is named after a 1922 tournament that took place in London. - It’s a popular and flexible opening system for White that begins with 1.
Chess openings: What is Petrov’s Defense?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Petrov’s Defense: 4 quick facts - Petrov’s Defense is named for the 19th-century Russian chess master Alexander Petrov, who first analyzed these lines. It’s also known as the Russian
Chess openings: What is the Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack: 5 quick facts - The Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack, also known as just the Larsen Attack or the Nimzo-Larsen Attack, is named after Danish grandmasters Bent Lars
Chess openings: What is the Trompowsky Attack?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Trompowsky Attack: 3 quick facts - The Trompowsky Attack is named after Brazilian chess player Octávio Trompowsky. - It’s a d4 opening that can be played either positionally or in a m
Chess openings: What is the King’s Indian Attack?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! King’s Indian Attack: 4 quick facts - Despite being a sound opening, the King’s Indian Attack is not commonly seen at the grandmaster level today, although it has been regularly playe
Chess openings: What is the Chigorin Defense?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Chigorin Defense: 3 quick facts - The Chigorin Defense, named for legendary Russian chess player Mikhail Chigorin, is an unconventional, attacking response to the Queen’s Gambit. Alth
Why Specialization Is Inevitable
What optimization theory, evolutionary biology, competitive markets, and machine learning all predict — and why the answer is the same --- Those who follow Dharma AI already know that we view specialization as one of the defining principles of effective AI systems, shaping everything from cost and performance to reliab
Chess openings: What is Bird’s Opening?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Bird’s Opening: 3 quick facts - Bird’s Opening, named after English chess player Henry Bird, is an offbeat opening, not popular at all at top levels or among grandmasters. - Starting
Chess openings: What is the Scotch Game?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Scotch Game: 2 quick facts - Named after a correspondence chess game played between Scotland and England, the Scotch Game has been played by Garry Kasparov, among other greats. - It’s
Chess openings: What is the French Defense?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! French Defense: 3 quick facts - The French Defense’s name derives from a correspondence match played between London and Paris. - It’s an extremely reliable, positional Black opening t
Chess openings: What is the Vienna Game?
Learning openings requires understanding chess notation, the system for naming pieces and moves. Get a refresher on chess notation here! Vienna Game: 2 quick facts - The Vienna Game was developed in the 1800s by several top Viennese chess players, including the first World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz. - This uncom
Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers
Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers The UK’s AI adoption: fast, but uneven We’ve worked with Public First on one of the most comprehensive UK AI adoption studies to date. The research reveals that workplace AI adoption has doubled in the past year, (up to 73%, from 34% in
Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?
Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack? If you’ve spent any time lately reading about AI or using AI tools, you’ve probably heard about “full-stack” AI and app development. Our unique full-stack approach to AI lets us deliver powerful, cost-efficient products to expert developers and everyday users alike. But
Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity
Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity How the EU’s mix of occupations and institutions can shape where AI supports growth, redesigns work, and encourages adaptation AI capabilities can cross borders quickly. Jobs do not change in such a frictionless way. Work is shaped by licensing systems, local institutions, and
Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 while being 2x cheaper and Luna brings strong capability at our lowest cost. GPT‑5.6 Sol launches with our most
Run a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One Command
It's the quickest way to stand up a model for tests, evals, or batch generation. (If you're after a managed, production-ready service instead, that's what Inference Endpoints are for — more on when to pick which at the end.) Here's the whole thing end to end. - A payment method or a positive prepaid credit balance (Job