Great design is at the heart of great products. I’m incredibly proud to see that Fast Company has named Google as the 2026 Design Company of the Year, recognizing the work to transform our products with AI 👏 Bringing AI into products used by billions requires exceptional craft and a relentless focus on the user experience. From the reinvention of Search with AI Mode, to 3D Immersive Navigation in Google Maps, to our new visual design of the Gemini app, our teams are building AI experiences that are intuitive, human, and genuinely helpful in daily life. Huge congratulations to our UX, research, and design teams who keep designing more helpful experiences every day! Check out the @FastCompany feature #FCDesignAwards#

Like many of you, I’ve been waiting over six months for Week 1 of the @NFL season. Excited to be kicking off this week with a major set of football updates in Search: 🏈 The new Live Game Feed gives you play-by-play updates, top social posts, video highlights, and more. 🏈 New carousel that lets you check the scores on multiple games at once. 🏈 More player stats like yards after catch, sacks, and turnovers. 🏈 Link your @YahooFantasy or @SleeperHQ accounts so that AI Mode can make recommendations based on your actual roster and league’s scoring rules. Great for start/sit recs, waiver wire targets, and evaluating trades. Read more here:

We’re always working to improve Google Translate and make it even easier to communicate across language barriers. Two neat examples: ✅Live translations now can run *in the background* so you can multitask on your phone or lock your screen and still get live translations. Useful for times like when you’re on the train waiting for your next stop to be announced (available on Android, iOS support coming soon) ✅Live translation is now available through your phone’s earpiece on iOS (already on Android). Great when you don’t have headphones handy like at a noisy airport. Try these out today in the Google Translate app! Download the app on Android or iOS here:

Weather is one of the top searches on Google daily, and we’ve been investing in cutting-edge AI models to improve weather forecasting. Today, we’re launching our most advanced, accurate model - WeatherNext 3 - and shipping it directly into Google Search & Maps! It brings dramatically improved longer-term forecasts. For example, it’s up to 50% more accurate for precipitation forecasts, with the greatest improvements in regions where forecasts have historically been less reliable. 🌧️ Super helpful when you’re trying to plan your weekend or what to pack for a trip!

Less than three weeks after 3.7, we're introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash 🚀 Available today in AI Mode in Google Search and the Gemini app for Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers. Check it out!

I’ve worked with Liz for 20+ years and know her as a brilliant builder and empathetic leader. Her work reimagining Search with AI is a master class in both, and one of the most monumental reinventions of technology in our lifetime. Congrats Liz, Marian, and Lila! 👏 #TIME100AI#

For all of us, news is very personal. Each person has a different set of publications or sources that they trust -- and want to hear from -- the most. With Preferred Sources, you can set yours and see them more often in your results. Since we launched Preferred Sources, we’ve seen lots of pubs and sites add our button to their site to help their audiences connect with them on Google. So we’re upgrading that experience & making it more seamless – if you’re a site interested in implementing our new interactive button on your site, check out how in Google Search Central:

Want to make Google feel a bit more customized? We’re rolling out new features to help personalize your experience across Search, News and Discover. My personal favorite: On Discover, you’ll soon be able to tune your feed using simple prompts like “show me kitchen reno ideas, but keep them eco-friendly.” Tap the three dot menu on Discover content to tell Google the topics you want to see more or less of, in your own words.

As a parent and a product builder, one of the areas that I think is most important to get right is how we create AI products to help students learn. There's an enormous opportunity for more personalized education, to help people understand topics in ways that resonate most with them, and to meet any learner where they're at. It’s essential that we build our products in a way that steers students toward true subject matter understanding and skill development rather than cheating or shortcuts. To help students as they head back to school, we’re rolling out several AI-powered tools in Search: 🔹Interactive visuals to make concepts click 🔹Custom practice quizzes to prep for exams 🔹Notebooks to keep organized 🔹Step-by-step learning with Lens 🔹Custom study files based on uploaded handwritten notes or course materials I'm especially proud of how our teams are building these features grounded in learning science and how people actually learn by partnering with leading experts, educators, institutions, and providers of trusted content. And starting today, we’re introducing new offers on our Google AI plans so that college students can sign up at and unlock even more, free of charge. Try out the latest Search updates in the Google app or on the web. Details:

Can't wait for you to see what the new Pixel 11 can do. A few of my favorite features: +Translate video & audio in real-time with Live Translate +Circle to Search right from your camera's view finder +Rambler because, uh, I need it :) More new features 👉

Search profiles are a great way for creators and websites to shape their presence on Search. It’s been awesome to see creators showcasing their work across the web…and growing & connecting with their audience on Search. Excited to expand Search profiles to more creators!

Incredible to see all the progress on @GeminiApp & growing to 1B users so quickly… Congrats to @joshwoodward & the whole team for creating something super useful, listening to feedback and fixing papercuts quickly, and obsessing over a great user experience! This rocketship growth is a direct reflection of your passion, innovation, and speed! Now get back to shipping ;)

Another strong quarter of Alphabet earnings driven by our full-stack approach! I’m incredibly proud of how our teams are taking frontier capabilities and bringing them to billions of users around the world through products like Google Search. Some highlights we shared: + Our AI-powered features are driving increased Search usage. + AI Overviews and AI Mode are driving growth in overall queries, and AI Mode has over 1 billion monthly users! + Search usage hit an all-time high during the World Cup this year, showing how much people turn to Google in these global moments. + We continue to accelerate the use of Gemini across our ads stack – improving ads quality, advertiser tools, and new AI user experiences. In fact, over half our SMB customers are now using AI to create or optimize their creatives. An important part of how we deliver results like these is behind-the-scenes work that users don’t usually see but absolutely feel. Two recent examples I love: + Search was able to handle record-breaking queries per second during the World Cup thanks to awesome advanced infra and capacity planning work. + We reduced the cost of serving AI Mode responses to their lowest since launch -- even as we’ve introduced more advanced AI capabilities -- thanks to really smart eng and hardware optimizations. Zooming out, as a long-time Googler, it’s exciting for me to see how Cloud is taking off with revenue growing 82%… a strong proof-point of our differentiated full-stack approach delivering real value to users and customers! Huge thanks to the Googlers, users, customers, and partners making this possible… lots to look forward to!

Great momentum from @GoogleDeepMind with today’s launch of three new Gemini models. Excited to start rolling out Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite in Search today. It offers stronger instruction following and better understands user intent, so conversations flow much more seamlessly.

We’ve been continuing to improve how we show links in our AI features in Search, to make it easy for people to click to websites. One of my personal gripes (as the team knows!) is whenever I can’t easily find a link for something I want to go deeper on. As we’ve continued to iterate, we’re now sending billions of clicks to websites every week through AI features in Search alone. We’re not done with this work – we recently added the ability to connect your subscriptions and select preferred sources, and have more to come!

Celebrating 25 years since we launched Google Images with even more visual search innovation! 🎂 + Introducing a new home for Google Images on desktop: immersive, dynamic & tailored to your interests + Bringing Nano Banana 🍌 image generation into Search so you can ask to generate an image and get it right on the Search results page

Google Search broke all prior usage records and saw its highest usage in history right after Argentina scored their winning goal in yesterday’s match! 🤯 Great to see the global excitement for the World Cup... can't wait for the semis and final!