Google AI Weekly Roundup: Maps, Workspace, Chrome, Gemini API All Moving at Once

Google AI's weekly roundup covered Maps, Workspace, Gemini Embedding 2, Gemini API controls, Chrome rollout, and a breast cancer research collaboration with Imperial College London and the UK NHS. One tweet spans product, dev tools, and research.

Picking AI Is No Longer Just About Models — Ethan Mollick's 'Model / App / Harness' Framework Explains the Entire 2026 AI Landscape

Ethan Mollick's game-changing AI framework: Model, App, Harness. The same AI (e.g., Claude Opus 4.6) performs vastly differently across layers. Mollick used Claude Code to turn GPT-1's 117M weights into 80 books in ~1 hour, selling out immediately.

SWE-bench February Exam Results Are In — Opus 4.5 Beats 4.6, Chinese Models Take Half the Top 10, GPT-5.3 No-Shows

SWE-bench: Claude Opus 4.5 (76.8%) unexpectedly beat 4.6 (75.6%) for #1. MiniMax M2.5 tied for #2 at 1/20th Opus's price, with 4 Chinese models in top 10. GPT-5.3-Codex missed due to no API. Bonus: Claude for Chrome to add chart labels.