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Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Pratik Worah, Research Scientist, Google Research, and Martin Maas, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind ๐Ÿ“… 2025-10-17

Solving virtual machine puzzles: How AI is optimizing cloud computing

We present LAVA, a new scheduling algorithm that continuously re-predicts and adapts to the actual lifetimes of virtual machines to optimize resource efficiency in large cloud data centers.

Solving virtual machine puzzles: How AI is optimizing cloud computing
Smashing Magazine ๐Ÿ‘ค Vitaly Friedman ๐Ÿ“… 2025-10-16

How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore

Research isnโ€™t everything. Facts alone donโ€™t win arguments, but powerful stories do. Hereโ€™s how to turn your research into narratives that inspire trust and influence decisions.

How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Kishwar Shafin, Technical Lead, and Andrew Carroll, Product Lead, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-10-16

Using AI to identify genetic variants in tumors with DeepSomatic

DeepSomatic is an AI-powered tool that identifies cancer-related mutations in a tumorโ€™s genetic sequence to help pinpoint whatโ€™s driving the cancer.

Using AI to identify genetic variants in tumors with DeepSomatic
A List Apart ๐Ÿ‘ค Mark Bernstein ๐Ÿ“… 2025-10-15

Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna

Todayโ€™s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy, and leave you with Taboola ads promising โ€œOne Weird Trick!โ€ to cure …

Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Billy Rutledge, Engineering Director, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-10-15

Coral NPU: A full-stack platform for Edge AI

Introducing Coral NPU, a full-stack, open-source platform designed to address the core performance, fragmentation, and privacy challenges that limit powerful, always-on AI with low-power edge …

Coral NPU: A full-stack platform for Edge AI
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Ruofei Du, Interactive Perception & Graphics Lead, and Benjamin Hersh, Product Manager, Google XR ๐Ÿ“… 2025-10-09

XR Blocks: Accelerating AI + XR innovation

XR Blocks is an open-source framework to help you develop immersive experiences for the web, featuring XR realism, XR interaction, and AI + XR applications with live demos in xrblocks.github.io.

XR Blocks: Accelerating AI + XR innovation
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Ehsan Variani and Michael Riley, Research Scientists, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-10-07

โ€‹โ€‹Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R): A new approach to voice search

Voice Search is now powered by our new Speech-to-Retrieval engine, which gets answers straight from your spoken query without having to convert it to text first, resulting in a faster, more …

โ€‹โ€‹Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R): A new approach to voice search
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Guy Tennenholtz, Senior Research Scientist, and Craig Boutilier, Principal Scientist, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-10-02

A collaborative approach to image generation

We introduce PASTA, a reinforcement learning agent that refines text-to-image output over multiple turns of interaction with a user by learning their unique preferences. This process is made …

A collaborative approach to image generation
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Ben Hahn and Florian Kรผbler, Software Engineers, Google Cloud ๐Ÿ“… 2025-10-01

Introducing interactive on-device segmentation in Snapseed

A novel mobile technology that facilitates real-time image segmentation, thereby improving the user experience for photo editing within Snapseed.

Introducing interactive on-device segmentation in Snapseed
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Ansh Nagda, Student Researcher, and Abhradeep Thakurta, Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Prabhakar Raghavan, Chief Technologist, Google ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-30

AI as a research partner: Advancing theoretical computer science with AlphaEvolve

We invoke AlphaEvolve, an LLM-based coding agent, to find and verify combinatorial structures that improve results on the hardness of approximately solving certain optimization problems.

AI as a research partner: Advancing theoretical computer science with AlphaEvolve
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Xuhai โ€œOrsonโ€ Xu, Visiting Faculty Researcher, and Ali Heydari, Research Scientist, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-30

The anatomy of a personal health agent

Learn about our research prototype, an LLM-powered personal health agent that analyzes data from everyday wellness devices paired with health data, such as blood biomarkers, to offer …

The anatomy of a personal health agent
A List Apart ๐Ÿ‘ค Michel Ferreira ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-26

Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System

“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior.” โ€” Kenneth L. Pike The web has accents. So …

Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Mike Schaekermann, Research Scientist, and Rory Sayres, Researcher, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-25

Towards better health conversations: Research insights on a โ€œwayfindingโ€ AI agent based on Gemini

We share user insights from a novel research AI agent that helps people find their way to better health information through proactive conversational guidance, goal understanding, and tailored …

Towards better health conversations: Research insights on a โ€œwayfindingโ€ AI agent based on Gemini
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Mercy Asiedu, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-24

AfriMed-QA: Benchmarking large language models for global health

We present Afrimed-QA, a collection of contextually relevant datasets for evaluation of LLMs on African health question answering tasks, developed in partnership with organizations across …

AfriMed-QA: Benchmarking large language models for global health
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Rajat Sen, Research Scientist, and Yichen Zhou, Software Engineer, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-23

Time series foundation models can be few-shot learners

We present a novel approach to time-series forecasting that uses continued pre-training to teach a time-series foundation model to adapt to in-context examples at inference time.

Time series foundation models can be few-shot learners
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Rujun Han and Chen-Yu Lee, Research Scientists, Google Cloud ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-19

Deep researcher with test-time diffusion

We introduce Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), a framework that uses a Deep Research agent to draft and revise its own drafts using high-quality retrieved information. This approach …

Deep researcher with test-time diffusion
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Ruofei Du, Interactive Perception & Graphics Lead, and Geonsun Lee, Student Researcher, Google XR ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-18

Sensible Agent: A framework for unobtrusive interaction with proactive AR agents

Sensible Agent is a research prototype that enables AR agents to proactively adapt what they suggest and how they interact, using real-time context, including gaze, hand availability, and …

Sensible Agent: A framework for unobtrusive interaction with proactive AR agents
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Cyrus Rashtchian, Research Scientist, and Da-Cheng Juan, Research Lead, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-17

Making LLMs more accurate by using all of their layers

We introduce SLED, a decoding strategy that enhances the accuracy of LLMs by aligning their output with the modelโ€™s intrinsic knowledge, without the need for external data or additional …

Making LLMs more accurate by using all of their layers
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Gal Elidan, Research Scientist, and Yael Haramaty, Senior Product Manager, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-16

Learn Your Way: Reimagining textbooks with generative AI

New research into GenAI in education demonstrates a novel approach to reimagining textbooks that led to improved learning outcomes in a recent study. The research comes to life in our …

Learn Your Way: Reimagining textbooks with generative AI
Google Research ๐Ÿ‘ค Amer Sinha, Software Engineer, and Ryan McKenna, Research Scientist, Google Research ๐Ÿ“… 2025-09-12

VaultGemma: The world’s most capable differentially private LLM

We introduce VaultGemma, the most capable model trained from scratch with differential privacy.

VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM