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Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as…

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Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

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Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.

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Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

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Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot

Gemini 3.6 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for web and app development, coding, and longer-horizon agentic tasks. It has configurable… The post Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are now available on AI Gateway

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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

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Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

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Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

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Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates

Text "Gemini Omni and Personal Avatars in Google Vids" surrounded by various images

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Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates

Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.

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Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.

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LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.

Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll get 3 or 4. Type “Another” again and you’ll get 8 or 9. That won’t work every time—but if it…

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Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac

Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.

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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.

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Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) now on AI Gateway

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Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.

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How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.

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Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker

Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company's new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces the rigid commands of the Google Assistant era with more conversational Gemini interactions.

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Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features

Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by a Pixel Drop that brings Google’s latest AI models to its devices.

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ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for first time

The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.

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Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.

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Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond

Results from a randomized controlled trial show the potential of Gemini’s Guided Learning feature to boost engagement and accelerate learning.

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How we used Gemini to build Google I/O 2026

A collage of I/O-related images, including the Antigravity Coffee Co. pop-up, a colorful jellyfish and a still from the Timmy TPU video. The word AI repeats three times on the left of the image, and there are colorful icons, including a sparkle, as well.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash on AI Gateway

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Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery

A collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.

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Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research

Introducing Co-Scientist, a collaborative AI partner built with Gemini to help researchers accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

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Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer

There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advantage is structural:…

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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech

Our newest audio model introduces granular audio tags that give you precise control to direct AI speech for expressive audio generation.

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Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.

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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.

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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is now on AI Gateway

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Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks

3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

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Gemini 3.1 Pro is live on AI Gateway

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A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.

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What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier

The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents. Earlier this month, Google announced Personal Intelligence, a new way for people to interact with the company’s Gemini chatbot that draws on their Gmail, photos, search, and YouTube…

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Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary

From the Gemini Calendar prompt-injection attack of 2026 to the September 2025 state-sponsored hack using Anthropic’s Claude code as an automated intrusion engine, the coercion of human-in-the-loop agentic actions and fully autonomous agentic workflows are the new attack vector for hackers. In the…

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Gemini 3 Flash is now available on the Vercel AI Gateway

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Improved Gemini audio models for powerful voice experiences

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How we’re bringing AI image verification to the Gemini app

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