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Gemini is Google's multimodal AI family, running inside Google Search, Gmail, Docs, Android, and the Gemini app. Our Gemini coverage follows Google DeepMind's model releases, Workspace integration, and the competitive battle with ChatGPT and Claude.
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Netflix, Spotify, YouTube converge on AI-powered entertainment app model
Format is no longer the differentiator — the fight is over which app owns every spare minute of a user's day, and AI is the wedge.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber to undercut Anthropic's Mythos
The new security model runs at a fraction of Mythos 5's cost and found 55 confirmed bugs in V8, beating Claude Opus 4.6's 36.
Google ships three new Gemini models but delays Pro update
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts token usage by up to 17%, but the flagship Pro refresh is still stuck as OpenAI and Anthropic pull ahead.
Google ships Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite to cut agent costs
The Flash refresh trims output tokens 17%, hits 350 tokens/second on Flash-Lite, and adds a cyber-tuned variant for CodeMender.
Google's Frozen v2 chip targets 6-10x efficiency gain for Gemini
Alphabet is designing a 2028 server chip to run Gemini cheaper as it spends $190B on AI infrastructure this year.
Google switches Gemini quotas to compute-based limits across all tiers
Free, AI Plus, AI Pro, and AI Ultra now meter by prompt complexity, not request count — and Google won't publish the free tier's baseline.
Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, adds code execution
The research app keeps its standalone form but gains a secure cloud computer and syncs with the Gemini app and Search.
Google plugs Instacart, Canva, and YouTube into AI Mode search
AI Mode moves from answering questions to executing tasks, matching integration features already shipping in ChatGPT and Claude.
EU orders Google to open Android and Search to AI rivals under DMA
Google must give ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity comparable Android access as Gemini, with search data sharing due January 2027.
Publishers sue Google, allege Gemini was trained on pirated books
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and Scott Turow accuse Google of scraping books from Google Books and Google Play to train Gemini without permission.
Waze adds Gemini voice commands for reports and destination search
Google is finally bringing its flagship AI assistant to Waze, though only two of four new features actually involve Gemini.
Google Photos adds Video Remix, an AI video editor powered by Gemini Omni
The feature applies cinematic relighting, background swaps, and painterly styles to clips in a few taps, and starts rolling out today across 15 countries.
Vercel's Guillermo Rauch bets on splitting AI models from agents
The infrastructure firm handles 6 million deployments a day and 1 trillion daily AI tokens as it pushes an open-protocol stack against the labs.
Google's July 4 Workspace ad puts Gemini in the hands of the Founding Fathers
The commercial imagines Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams drafting the Declaration of Independence inside Google Docs, Meet, and Nano Banana.
Google's July 4 ad imagines the Founders drafting the Declaration in Workspace
The 250th-anniversary spot leans on Docs, Meet, and Gemini — and picked up 'tone deaf' reviews on Bluesky within hours.
Google brings Gemini Spark agent to Mac, targeting Claude Desktop and Copilot
Spark now runs on macOS in beta for Google AI Ultra subscribers, with new hooks into Keep, Tasks, Canva, Dropbox, and custom MCP servers.
Google's NotebookLM generates 60-second vertical video summaries
Paid Ultra and Pro subscribers can now turn uploaded sources into TikTok-style clips with AI narration and paper-cutout visuals.
Google ships Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash to developers
DeepMind's fastest image model generates in 4 seconds at $0.034 per 1K images; Omni Flash matches Veo 3.1 Fast at $0.10 per second of video.
Google opens Gemini's Nano Banana image generation to all US users
The personalized image feature, previously locked behind Plus, Pro, and Ultra tiers, now runs free on a chatbot with 750 million monthly users.
Google restricts Meta's access to Gemini AI models
The curb signals Google treating Meta as a direct AI rival rather than a customer, per a Financial Times report.
Google loses Gemini architects Adler and Pritzel to Anthropic
Two more Gemini researchers join a wave of defections to Anthropic and OpenAI, weeks after Google paid $2.7B to bring Noam Shazeer back.
Google bakes computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash as a native tool
DeepMind folds its standalone agent model into Flash, letting developers build agents that drive browsers, mobile apps and desktops via one API call.
Google Home adds clothing and body cues to Familiar Faces recognition
A June 23rd update lets Nest cams identify tagged people from behind, auto-refreshes the face library, and flags specific sounds in event logs.
Apple's Siri AI arrives in iOS 27 beta, leans on Google Gemini
The long-delayed assistant indexes your phone, pulls from Gemini-powered Apple Intelligence, and ships fully only on iPhone 17 Pro and Air.
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