You asked. We listened. Custom thumbnails are coming soon to YouTube Shorts. Here’s what you need to know: 🎨 More Creative Control: @YouTube Partner Program creators can now upload custom thumbnails to showcase their unique style. 🚀 Broader Access Coming: This feature will expand to more creators over time.

On our Q2 2026 earnings call, Google and Alphabet CEO @SundarPichai recapped an amazing quarter, with our AI investments redefining what’s possible across every part of our business. Read his full remarks:

Earlier this week, we shared some recent AI highlights across Google. Here are some milestones showing our progress from the past few months ↓ 🚀 The Gemini app now has 950 million monthly active users, with daily active users tripling in the last year. 🔨 More than 9 million developers are building each month with our models across our APIs and key developer products. 📽️ Since launching Omni at I/O in May, there’s been a 40% increase in daily active users creating videos in the @GeminiApp. 📈 Our latest Gemma 4 models have been downloaded over 300 million times since launching in April. 👥 Our agentic development platform @GoogleAntigravity has more than 2.4 million weekly active users. 🔎 Since expanding AI Mode in Search globally last October, we’ve surpassed 1 billion monthly active users. 🖥️ Nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies are using Gemini Enterprise.

Today, we’re adding a new, easy way to sign in to your Google Account. Introducing: selfie video. It lets you access your Google Account even if you forget your password or lose your device. Here’s what to know ↓ 🔹Your selfie video is only for helping you sign in, unless you opt in for additional purposes. 🔹 We use multiple layers of security to help prevent impersonation attempts, like deepfakes. 🔹Your selfie video is securely stored even when it's not in use. 🔹You can delete your selfie video at any time in your Google Account.

Q2 was an amazing quarter, with our AI investments redefining what’s possible across every part of our business. Alphabet revenue grew 24% YoY and Google Cloud accelerated to 82% growth. We saw exciting momentum across the board from Search to YouTube to the Gemini app (which reached 950M monthly active users). Our model APIs are processing 22B tokens/min (up from 16B+ last quarter) driven by our workhorse Flash models. We’re also seeing great adoption of Gemini Enterprise, used by 90% of the Fortune 100, as well as strong demand for our security solutions. Outstanding results and momentum, and such an exciting moment—thanks to all of our partners and employees around the world! 🙌 About to hop on the call!

Today at #GalaxyUnpacked#, we shared new @Android and Gemini updates coming to the latest @SamsungMobile devices. You’ll be able to: ✨ Get next-generation task automation with Gemini Intelligence, now expanding to more than 40 popular apps. ✨ Manage deep projects and synthesize complex information with @Gemini_Notebook (formerly NotebookLM), which comes preinstalled on Samsung's new foldables. ✨ Take Gemini on the go with upcoming watches and glasses — including the Galaxy Watch 9 and two new intelligent eyewear frames from @_GentleMonster_ and @WarbyParker’s collections coming this fall.

While Washington debates tariffs, a much more consequential shift is happening: the modernization of global trade rules for the AI era. Check out my @WSJ op-ed on why updating these rules—and fighting hidden digital trade barriers—matters for every American business:

We're introducing three new models to the Gemini family: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. These new models are built to deliver higher token efficiency, lower latency and reliable quality where developers and enterprises need it most.

Gemini Omni Flash took the #1# spot on the @ArtificialAnlys Leaderboards for Text to Video and Image to Video🏆 Omni Flash is our latest multimodal model that allows you to create and edit high-quality videos just by describing what you want to see. Try it out in the @GeminiApp, @FlowByGoogle and via our APIs.

Running a small business requires wearing many hats — from accountant to marketer to salesperson to designer. Using @GeminiApp can help you manage all the juggling. 👇 Here’s how one small business owner, Hrag Kalebjian of Henry’s House of Coffee in San Francisco, used Gemini to grow his business: 🧵 1️⃣ Data automation Hrag used @GeminiApp as a technical assistant to write custom code for a daily sales forecaster. Instead of programming it from scratch, he used everyday language to ask for help and shared screenshots with Gemini to troubleshoot errors. Try it yourself: Ask Gemini to write a Google Sheets function to automatically highlight days when sales fall under your monthly average, then have Gemini walk you through how to use it.

🧵Up, up and away 🚀 Gemma 4, our most intelligent open models to date, just hit 200 million downloads. Since its launch 2.5 months ago, developers, researchers and startups have used Gemma 4 to fine-tune and deploy models across a variety of environments — from wearable robotic arms for physical assistance to enterprise-grade AI security.

New stat from @vercel's AI Gateway in @BusinessInsider: Gemini 3 Flash is leading across AI models in token usage as of April. 🚀 See more stats on how developers are using our models → 📊via @BusinessInsider

The Google Threat Intelligence Group has detected the first known instance of a threat actor using an AI-developed zero-day exploit in the wild. While the attackers planned a wide-scale strike, our proactive counter-discovery may have prevented that from happening. This finding is part of our new report on AI-powered threats.

“In 2016, [@SundarPichai] had declared Google would be an “AI-first company,” and began cultivating a series of projects—custom chips, Cloud, YouTube, and deep AI research—that seemed to have nothing to do with Google’s core search product. All of these bets have paid off, and then some.” — @TIME in their new #TIME100Companies# cover story on Alphabet and AI → 📷: Daniel Dorsa