Gemini updates and release notes

Google is adding reporting for web multimodal Search performance in Search Console. The stated reason is that Search is evolving to include more visual and multimodal experiences, so site owners need data to analyse how they perform in them. Previously this traffic was not broken out for publishers and site owners to review.

Google Beam is expanding into five new countries, widening the set of markets where it is available. Google has also partnered with Industrious to extend the network of locations, alongside new partners and customers.

Google is adding academic advisors, fellows and core internal researchers to its AI & Economy team. The change is to the team's composition, moving from an internal group to one supplemented by external academic expertise.

Google worked directly with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools for their New York Fashion Week preparation. This moves Flow from a general-purpose tool to one shaped around a specific creative workflow through hands-on collaboration with practitioners.

Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, an open platform for global statistics. Data that was previously spread across UN sources is now searchable and explorable in one place.