Google AI Updates: May 9, 2026

1. Google launches “The Small Brief” using Flow for SMB ad creative

Google. Google paired three name advertising creative directors with local small businesses to produce campaigns built in Flow, Google’s generative video and image studio, with the resulting ads scheduled to drop in June. The framing is marketing, but the practitioner read is that Google is using the program to demonstrate Flow as a production-grade pipeline for end-to-end ad creation rather than a one-off generation toy. Source