Google AI Updates: August 11, 2026

1. Google Adds Gemini-Powered Ask Advisor Agent to Ads and Analytics

Google. Google launched Ask Advisor, an in-product agent built on Gemini that spans Google Ads and Google Analytics, alongside features including AI Homepage Overviews, AI-powered insight cards, prompt-generated visual dashboards, and benchmarking against anonymized data from similar businesses. The agent surfaces automatic summaries of performance changes and lets users request custom reports and directional analysis through a natural-language prompt box. The rollout is in beta for English-language accounts, signaling Google’s push to embed conversational, agentic workflows directly into its highest-traffic marketing products rather than as standalone tools. Source