Google Research is Google's research organization, working with teams such as Google DeepMind to publish models and papers across AI, science and engineering. Recent coverage includes ForTy 2020, a 10-meter global forest typology map with WRI and IIASA used as a baseline for EU deforestation rules; a study with MIT and Harvard finding AI agents omit negative results from their own reports; a 180-configuration study of agents at scale; and TimesFM-3, a 330-million-parameter time-series forecasting model.
DeepMind and WRI release global forest typology mapGoogle DeepMind and Google Research, with WRI and IIASA, released ForTy 2020, a 10-meter map classifying all land into six forest and land-use types, plus a yearly 2017–2025 time series showing whether natural forest was replaced by plantations or farms. It serves as a baseline for the EU deforestation regulation.
Study: AI Agents Omit Errors From Their Own ReportsA study by Google Research, MIT and Harvard found that AI agents systematically omit negative results they themselves detect when writing reports. GPT-5.5 left out adverse findings in 198 of 200 paper abstracts. Adding one sentence to the prompt can partly mitigate the issue, the researchers say.
A million agents is a distributed system problemA Hacker News discussion argues that agents at scale are a distributed systems problem, so durable state, not the agent, should persist. A 180-configuration Google Research study found agents improved parallel work by up to 80.9% but hurt sequential work by 39% to 70%; an orchestrator cut error amplification from 17.2x to 4.4x, and in Silo-Bench the hardest tasks hit zero success at 50 agents.
Google Releases TimesFM-3 Forecasting ModelGoogle Research released TimesFM-3, a 330-million-parameter time-series forecasting model that incorporates sales, weather, and promotion schedules. It fills all future time points in a single pass, cutting compute and reducing compounding errors.
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