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This Earth Month, let’s move beyond surface-level prompting toward a critical, literate mindset. 🌍 With AI Quests, learners ages 10-15 step into the shoes of researchers to see firsthand how technology can help manage environmental threats. Start the journey: research.google/ai-quests

Congratulations to Andrea Parker, Laura Vardoulakis & Christina Harrington on receiving the Best Paper award for 'Promise or Peril? Exploring Black Adults' Perspectives on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Contexts' at #CHI2026!

How can we address the scarcity of data required for specialized AI? Learn about Simula, a framework that reframes synthetic data generation as dataset-level mechanism design. By using reasoning to architect datasets from first principles, Simula enables fine-grained control over coverage, complexity, and quality. More →goo.gle/4cf15iV

Today on the blog, learn how generating synthetic neuron geometries helps AI learn to better classify neurons by their shape, speeding up future brain map reconstructions. More →goo.gle/3OKkgbi

YouTube AI Search transforms how you can find info on YouTube. Instead of just keywords, you can now ask complex questions & have a conversation to refine your search. Come by the Google booth at 10:30AM to learn more about YouTube Ask on TV! #CHI2026

Have questions about the history and current direction of UX research at Google? Dan Russell will be at the Google booth at 3:45PM for an AMA! With over 20 years of experience, Dan knows the history, culture, and current practice of UX. #CHI2026

Meet Fabula: an interactive AI writing tool helping authors structure & refine stories. Co-designed with 42 expert writers, the demo showcases how convergent iteration supports creativity. Catch the demo at the Google booth at 10:30AM! #CHI2026

In honor of World Quantum Day, we’re heading onto our campus to answer the top trending questions people are searching for. Join Jenna and Andrew from our team as they break down the basics of quantum and what these systems could actually be used for → goo.gle/4mw6zJy

Happy World Quantum Day! Today’s #GoogleDoodle represents the potential of the qubit. We’re harnessing its unique quantum properties to build systems capable of solving problems that remain intractable for classical computers → goo.gle/4ckighH

Ever wonder how UX changes when your user is a developer? Visit the Google booth at 10:30AM to learn about the nuances of designing for expert developer users vs consumer users, including a case study on developer tooling for log analysis. #CHI2026

Today we're sharing our research experiment, Vantage, using GenAI to assess "future-ready" skills like collaboration. A study with New York University found our AI dynamically steers simulated conversations & achieves scores comparable to human experts. More: goo.gle/4covs5q

How do we move from describing digital harms to preventing them? Join Patrick Gage Kelley and Ashley Walker at the Google booth at 12:45PM for a Q&A on Trust & Safety at Google, discussing our latest research on AI and user vulnerability. #CHI2026

Want to translate user prompts into interactive WebXR apps? Stop by the Google booth at 10:30AM to see a demo of Vibe Coding XR, a rapid prototyping workflow empowering Gemini Canvas with the open-source XR Blocks framework. #CHI2026

Google is proud to be a Hero Sponsor of the 2026 @acm_chi conference on Human-Computer Interaction, held this week in Barcelona, Spain! Visit the #CHI2026 Google booth to learn about groundbreaking research, attend a demo, or chat with researchers. → goo.gle/CHI26

Introducing ConvApparel, a new human-AI conversation dataset, as well as a comprehensive evaluation framework designed to quantify the "realism gap" in LLM-based user simulators and improve the training of robust conversational agents. Read all about it →goo.gle/41k5eff

Applications for the global Google PhD Fellowship Program are open! Fellowships directly support graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in computer science and related fields as they pursue their PhD. Learn more and apply by April 30 at goo.gle/phdfellowship.

Today we announce that AI Quests, a gamified AI literacy experience developed by Google Research in collaboration with the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, is expanding to eight additional languages, including Spanish and Malay! Learn more →goo.gle/3NSBfrE You can also try AI Quests here: goo.gle/4m1NDlz

Today we announce a new evaluation framework to improve AI benchmark reproducibility. By optimizing the ratio of the number of items to human raters per item, we can better capture the nuance of human disagreement in subjective tasks. Learn more: goo.gle/4s6M4o1

Today, we’re announcing the winners of the MedGemma Impact Challenge, launched in collaboration with @Kaggle. 850+ participating teams showed us how AI can help bridge global healthcare gaps. Check out the winning innovations →goo.gle/47oQG1l