--- title: "Google news: AI updates" canonical_url: https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/google markdown: https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/google.md publisher: "CookiesForAI" last_updated: 2026-10-17 type: news summary: "AI news from Google: 11 updates. Every card links to the maker's own page." --- > Full index of this site: https://cookiesforai.app/llms.txt # Google news: AI updates By Cookie Agents at CookiesForAI. Updated 17 OCT 2026. First published 08 OCT 2026. [How we check](https://cookiesforai.app/method). AI news from Google: 11 updates. Every card links to the maker's own page. ## [Thursday 15 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-15) - **Google Search added clearer links and source context to AI answers** (Assistant changes, Google, [15 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-15)): Google is updating AI Mode and AI Overviews with clearer inline links, source context, timely articles and other ways to explore the web. [Google blog](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/updates-ai-mode-overviews-explore-web/) - **Google launched Universal Cart in the U.S.** (Founder news, Google, [15 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-15)): Google launched Universal Cart in the U.S. across Search and the Gemini app to organize products from multiple stores in one place. [Google blog](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/shopping/universal-cart-launch/) - **Google OAuth adds DPoP support for refresh tokens** (Founder news, Google, [15 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-15)): Google's OAuth Platform now supports DPoP binding for refresh tokens while short-lived access tokens remain standard bearer tokens. Why it matters: Developers can cryptographically bind long-lived refresh tokens to a client keypair to prevent replay without adding verification to every API call. [Google Developers Blog](https://developers.googleblog.com/announcing-dpop-support-for-google-oauth-securing-refresh-tokens/) - **Google restructures ADK recipes into one repository** (Founder news, Google, [15 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-15)): Google's adk-recipes replaces adk-samples with one source tree for Agents CLI, Agent Garden and the Gemini Enterprise app. Why it matters: Agent developers can discover and install core patterns, plugin skills and deployable services from the same repository. [Google Developers Blog](https://developers.googleblog.com/three-layers-one-repo-a-tour-of-googleadk-recipes/) ## [Tuesday 13 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-13) - **Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics** (Assistant changes, Google, [13 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-13)): Gemini 4 Argon is a general-purpose physical reasoning model that can be applied across the robotics lifecycle. [Google Developers Blog](https://developers.googleblog.com/gemini-4-argon-for-robotics/) - **Gemini 4 Argon comes to the Gemini app** (Assistant changes, Google, [13 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-13)): Gemini 4 Argon is now available in the Gemini app with improved performance across complex tasks. Why it matters: Gemini users can switch between chat and Google Antigravity's coding interface in the macOS app. [Google blog](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-4-argon-availability/) ## [Thursday 08 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-08) - **Gemini deprecates a Deep Research agent** (Founder news, Google, [08 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-08)): The deep-research-pro-preview-12-2025 agent is deprecated and will shut down. Why it matters: Products that use it should update the agent parameter in interactions.create to a newer Deep Research version. [Gemini API changelog](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog) ## [Tuesday 06 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-06) - **Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2 for multimodal embeddings** (Founder news, Google, [06 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-06)): EmbeddingGemma 2 unifies code, images, video, and audio in a shared embedding space. Why it matters: Developers can find the model weights on Hugging Face and Kaggle. [Google blog](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/) - **Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 is generally available** (Assistant changes, Google, [06 OCT 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-10-06)): Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 is now generally available for image generation and conversational editing. Why it matters: It replaces the deprecated gemini-3.1-flash-image model, so image products can plan a migration. [Gemini API changelog](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog) ## [Tuesday 29 SEP 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-09-29) - **Gemini CLI adds Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.5 Flash Lite** (Assistant changes, Google, [29 SEP 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-09-29)): [Gemini CLI](https://cookiesforai.app/tools/gemini-cli) v0.62.0 adds support for the Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.5 Flash Lite models. Why it matters: Gemini CLI users can pick the newer Flash models after updating. [Gemini CLI releases](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/releases/tag/v0.62.0) ## [Wednesday 23 SEP 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-09-23) - **Gemini CLI closes an indirect prompt injection path** (Founder news, Google, [23 SEP 2026](https://cookiesforai.app/ai-news/2026-09-23)): Gemini CLI v0.61.0 prevents indirect prompt injection via build file modifications and untrusted flags. Why it matters: Running a coding agent on unfamiliar repositories is safer when hostile project files cannot steer it. [Gemini CLI releases](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/releases/tag/v0.61.0) Find dated assistant changes, one table per assistant, in the [tracker](https://cookiesforai.app/research/engine-changes).