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<details><summary>google-cloud-bigquery: 3.40.0</summary>

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[3.40.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery/compare/v3.39.0...v3.40.0)
(2026-01-08)

### Features

* support load_table and list_rows with picosecond timestamp (#2351)
([46764a59](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery/commit/46764a59))

* support timestamp_precision in table schema (#2333)
([8d5785ae](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery/commit/8d5785ae))

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