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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 efficiency and security tasks.

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.

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.

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first revealed Gemini Notebook - then called Project Tailwind - in May 2023 before widely releasing the app just months later. Over the past few years, Google has been adding new features to the app to help organize and make sense of your notes, such as the ability to summarize them as AI podcasts, narrated slideshows, and TikTok-style clips. It recently star...

Google Vids adds Gemini Omni support and personal avatar features for video generation and editing.

Google must give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search after the European Union ordered the company to comply with the bloc's digital antitrust rules. The two decisions, handed down Thursday, could weaken Google's control over two of the tech industry's most important platforms and have far-reaching consequences for the company, shape the future of its AI tool Gemini, and open up new opportunities for rivals to gain ground. Google has until January 2027 to begin sharing search data and July 2027 to implement changes to Android. The rul...

Google DeepMind and AIM launch ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered educational tool for Indian robotics labs.

Waze is getting an AI makeover. Google is integrating its flagship AI assistant, Gemini, into the driving app with the goal of letting users personalize their trips a little more. Of the four new updates, only two are being described as involving Gemini. Waze says its updating its conversation reporting feature, first introduced in 2024, to allow drivers to use conversational voice commands to report traffic incidents and suggest map updates, like a road closure or outdated house number. In addition, Waze introduced Destination Search, enabling drivers to use (again) use conversation voice co...

Android Bench is evolving, and developers can help guide that process.

Google expands Gemini API Managed Agents with background task execution and remote MCP support for production deployments.

I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google "Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to check on the status of a draft, who takes a photo and uses AI to transcribe it into a Google Doc. Franklin and Adams hop in to make edits in suggestion mode, Gemini...

Comparative evaluation of frontier LLMs (GPT, Claude Opus, Gemini, GLM) for automated Linux/bash exam grading using cognitive taxonomy.

Multi-agent workflow (Gemini 2.5 Flash, RigoChat-7B-v2) for Spanish Easy-to-Read translation via LangGraph with event-condition-action routing.

MedQADE benchmark reveals LLM evaluators (Gemini 3 Flash) match clinician agreement on German medical QA but lack clinical caution in safety assessment.

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…

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

Zero-shot benchmark evaluates Claude, GPT-5.4, and Gemini on fine-grained 13-class emotion classification.

The Google Home Speaker is Google’s first smart speaker in years. And it’s pretty! | Photo: Jennifer Patison Tuohy / The Verge Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act. Beyond music, timers, and controlling your lights, they've struggled to justify taking up space on the kitchen counter. AI promised to change that. Amazon debuted its new hardware powered by a revamped Alexa last fall, and now it's finally Google's turn. The Google Home Speaker is the company's first new smart speaker in six years and its first "built for Gemini." After years of neglec...

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, optimized for fast, low-cost image generation; author tests visual search capability.

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.

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite for developer access.