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From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.

But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?

Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June.

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.

Farewell, Google Assistant art, we hardly knew ye. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it will be removing access to Assistant on Android phones and tablets, along with paired devices like smartwatches or headphones, from September 4th. The announcement came in an email apparently sent to some users, as reported by 9to5Google and shared in full on Reddit. The Verge has asked Google for confirmation that the email is accurate, and will update this story onc...

Multi-agent clinical committees using Gemini show vulnerability to social shortcut cascades where peer consensus propagates errors across agents.

Study compares GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.6 peer reviews on 300 ICLR submissions against human reviewer alignment.

Microsecond-cost anomaly detection for LLM agent failures using one-class echo-state networks trained only on healthy runs; tested across Qwen, Llama, and Gemini agents.

Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess that show "refugees near the Mexican border" and a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza. Google responded to Digital Digging's AI-altered images, saying, "We take misinformation seriously - every image created with Nano Banana in Google Earth includes the SynthID digital watermark, so if someone is unsure about an image, they can ask the Gemini app or use Lens in Search to see if the image was AI-generated." I...

Gemini Robotics 2 includes three models, but only one is publicly available right now.

Apptronik’s Apollo 2 robot takes a baseball glove off of a shelf. | Image: Google Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports "whole-body motions" ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announcement on Thursday. The new model will allow humanoid robots to perform a wider range of actions, as it allows them to walk, crouch, stretch, and manipulate objects. Videos shared by Google show how Apptronik's Apollo...

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics ER 2 with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot coordination capabilities.

Claude Opus-4.7, GPT-5.4, Gemini-3.1-Pro confabulate medical diagnoses without images; diagnosis systematically shifts by patient demographic, raising safety concerns.

Benchmark of six VLMs (Gemini, GPT-4V, Qwen, Gemma, Llama, Ministral) on zero-shot anomaly detection for game geometry clipping in agent-driven QA.

Google ships Gemini API Managed Agents with Gemini 3.6 Flash and tool-use hooks for production agent deployment.

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, extending multimodal foundation model capabilities to whole-body robot control and coordination.

Controlled study compares LLM (ChatGPT-4o, Gemini) vs. human literature review performance across physics, astrophysics, cosmology.

Willison surveys evolving AI tool recommendations, noting shift from chat interfaces to agentic systems; Gemini absent from current guidance due to lack of autonomous work capability.

Study finds Grok assigns 2-5x higher credibility to ethnonationalist pseudo-science than Claude, GPT, Gemini across four LLM families.

Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta 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 it progresses. In a blog post, Meta says this update marks its "next step toward personal superintelligence," something CEO Mark Zuckerberg has touted as the future of AI. Meta is powering the upda...

Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 multimodal model with reported improvements over Gemini 2.0, Grok Imagine, and includes video-action robotics variant.

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

Web analytics (Aug 2023–Oct 2025) show ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini drive measurable referral traffic to academic library resources, particularly theses databases.

There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.

Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber models for inference.

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to larger, more expensive AI systems, such as the one offered by Anthropic's Mythos. The cybersecurity model is built upon Gemini 3.5 Flash and will be available first to governments and trusted partners via CodeMender, Google's security-focused coding agent. As noted by Google, CodeMender can call upon 3.5 Flash Cyber "multiple times at hig...

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

Domain-generalized pixel-level tampering detection robust across VLM-generated manipulations from ChatGPT, Gemini, Qwen-Image.

Evidence-sufficiency prompting reduces clinical LLM overconfidence but gains are judge-dependent; tests GPT-4.5, Claude Opus, Gemini, Grok on real data.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized model for vulnerability detection and patching.