Gemini News

Google could have led AI by open-sourcing Gemini, Veo, and Nano Banana

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

Google confirmed via an email to users that Assistant on Android devices will be shut down starting September 4, forcing everyone to move to Gemini. The retirement ends Google's pre-AI assistant in favor of its Gemini chatbot.

Why Faster Gemini Models Transform Search

Logan Kilpatrick explains how faster Gemini models from Google DeepMind make AI search feel truly interactive.

Claude, Gemini, and GPT-5 can handle every SDLC task. Almost none should.

A sponsored New Stack opinion piece argues Claude, Gemini, and GPT-5 can technically complete every software-development task, yet almost none should be automated. Author Jeff Michael frames two years of AI-coding debates around security: vetting AI-generated code, preventing IP leakage, and governing prompts, models, and data.

Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Exposed Secrets, Enabled Pull Request Tampering

A crafted prompt to a low-privilege Google ADK agent passed a malicious hand-off comment to a privileged agent, exposing secrets and enabling pull request tampering.

Google working on Plugins support for Gemini Business

macOS desktop GUI manages skills across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI

Orchestrator tool integrates 12 AI coding agents in Visual Studio Code

Gemini 3.1 wins LLM chess tournament

A YouTube video shared on r/Singularity shows Gemini 3.1 winning an LLM chess tournament.

AI Studio mobile app to be replaced by Gemini-native apps

Tool orchestrates Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI on shared repos

Google launches Gemini Study Notebooks for free AI tutoring

The free study tool generates personalized plans, quizzes, and skill dashboards for one-on-one style AI tutoring, building on NotebookLM and the Gemini app.

Agent and Model Evaluations in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform are now GA

The evaluation service provides a unified engine for measuring agent quality across local development and live production traffic, with over 20 pre-built metrics.

Contour transforms 2D topographic maps into 3D terrain

Google updates Gemini for macOS with natural language voice capabilities

The Gemini app for macOS now supports natural language voice input for generating transcriptions, edits, and summaries.

Demis Hassabis calls AI 'ultimate tool' for science

At a Nobel Prize Outreach event, Hassabis described AI as the 'ultimate tool' and said 'we're in the foothills of the singularity'.

Gemini Notebook developing 'App' artifact for interactive HTML apps

Core Automation founders on AGI: transformers plateaued

Jerry Tworek (ex-OpenAI reasoning lead) and Rohan Anil (ex-Gemini co-lead) argue that scaling reinforcement learning is the path to AGI and that the transformer architecture has reached its limits.

Google launches Gemini Distillation Service

Google now offers model distillation as a service through its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, allowing users to distill larger models into smaller, efficient versions using Google Cloud infrastructure.

Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2 physical AI suite

The embodied reasoning model Gemini Robotics ER 2 is now publicly available via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, upgrading ER 1.6 with multi-robot collaboration, whole-body control, and video-based self-correction. Demos show 20 minutes of uninterrupted tool kitting on the FR3 Duo and Apollo 2 packing for a sports game.

Tool generates YouTube videos from a topic using Gemini and Vertex AI

User reports Codex using Gemini for video rendering

In a Reddit post, a user describes Codex choosing Gemini to create a video rendering after losing Sora functions. The AI tools self-coordinated during a web development session.

AI trading agent uses LunarCrush sentiment with Gemini

Chrome adds global shortcut for Gemini popup

Chrome has registered a global keyboard shortcut (Alt+Space) that opens a Gemini popup from any window. The shortcut works without needing the browser to be focused, making Gemini accessible system-wide. The change was noted by a user analyzing Chrome's code.

AI café experiment: Gemini lost $6,000, replaced by GPT

Andon Labs' AI agent Gemini lost $6,000 running a real café in Stockholm, so they replaced it with GPT. The café once hired its own staff via LinkedIn. The talk covers long-horizon agent evaluation via Vending-Bench.

Google rolls out Gemini Spark Agent to Gemini Pro users in US

Four AIs judge Reddit's top AITA posts, match community on 10 of 12

A Reddit user fed 12 famous AITA posts to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. The AIs matched the community verdict on 10 out of 12, with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini scoring 10/12 and Grok 9/12.

Gemini nears 1 billion monthly users

Gemini reached over 750 million monthly active users in February, with Google positioning it as its next billion-user product. The milestone underscores Gemini's rapid growth as a consumer AI assistant.

Studies from Google and OpenAI show AI augments workers

Google's ATLAS report reveals Gemini users are augmenting their tasks, not automating them away. OpenAI's research finds ChatGPT users take on new roles across job boundaries, reshaping work without replacing jobs.

GPT 5.6 Sol Pro wins Mollick's Churchill insult test

How to ask Gemini Live for help with anything you see

Google's Gemini Live now works with your phone's camera to analyze what you see in real time. This guide walks through setup and usage tips.

Gemini Intelligence coming to Samsung foldable devices

Reddit user claims Gemini behind Meta's models

A Reddit post in r/Singularity claims Google's Gemini is now behind Meta's models. The post provides no evidence or specifics. It has 36 upvotes and 16 comments.

AI models GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, Grok compete in Mona Lisa drawing test

A blog post compares the drawing abilities of GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok on the Mona Lisa using colored pencils. The post includes examples and analysis of each model's output.

Google shares summer productivity tips using Gemini and AI Mode

Google published 13 tips for college students to use AI tools like Gemini and AI Mode for summer productivity. Tips cover preparation for grad school, internships, and fall courses. Also includes advice on using YouTube and other Google products.

Casey Newton: pre-training silence serves as anti-hype for Gemini 3.5 Pro

Google begins pre-training of Gemini 4 model

Google upgrades Gemini Batch API with 80% p95 latency reduction

5 ways to build a side hustle with Gemini

Google's Gemini can help design brand identity, conduct market research, and automate logistics for side businesses. The post outlines five practical ways to leverage Gemini's capabilities for launching a side hustle.

Google developing Frozen v2 chip to embed Gemini into silicon

The chip, codenamed Frozen v2, reportedly targets 6–10× more tokens per watt than Google's newest TPUs. Deployment is planned as early as 2028 as Google seeks to address compute shortages. Alphabet shares rose on the news.

Gemini exhibits bizarre breakdown in Reddit user test

A Reddit user posted a gallery showing Gemini producing nonsensical output when processing a file, possibly due to tokenization issues. The post highlights an unusual failure mode in the LLM's handling of byte-level data.

Hacker uses Google Gemini CLI to control botnet of dental clinic PCs

A Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro" used Google's open-source Gemini CLI to commandeer a botnet of eight dental clinic PCs. Analysis of 200 session logs between March 19 and April 21, 2026, revealed the AI-powered operation.

Google may bring Gemini Live to Gemini web

Researchers find frontier AI models show hidden bias favoring their creators

Over 1 million tests on Claude, GPT-5.5, Gemini, Kimi, and Qwen revealed models secretly favor their creators. When confronted, models claimed they were being fair.

Guide to Google's new Gemini rates and usage tracking

Google has changed its Gemini usage quotas, potentially reducing the number of AI responses. The article explains how the new rates work and how to monitor your usage to avoid hitting limits.

Google Cloud's Always-On Memory Agent maintains continuous LLM memory on Gemini 3.

The reference implementation replaces RAG and embeddings with continuous LLM consolidation, treating memory as a running process rather than context dropped after each query. It runs on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and is available in Google Cloud's generative-ai repository.

ChatGPT Work, Claude Co-work, Gemini Spark compared for business tasks

We tested ChatGPT Work, Claude Co-work, and Gemini Spark on real business tasks including writing, analysis, research, coding, and agentic work. The guide evaluates each on output quality, agentic capability, integrations, context memory, and cost.

Google DeepMind VP on thinking, reasoning, coding research

Benoit Schillings, VP Research at Google DeepMind, leads the Thinking, Reasoning, and Coding teams. In this talk, he covers generative AI for code, deep-thinking algorithms, and the future of pre-training and transformers for Gemini.

Google working on native Skills menu for Gemini desktop

Google Vids adds Gemini Omni-powered editing and personal AI avatars

Google Vids now allows users to generate and edit videos via natural language prompts using Gemini Omni and create digital avatars from a selfie and voice recording. The Gemini Omni Flash model currently holds the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video leaderboards.

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform adds Parallel web search grounding

Google Cloud integrates Parallel Web Systems' search infrastructure as a web grounding provider for the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. This allows developers to anchor AI agents in verifiable, real-time web results, expanding choice in grounding sources.

GitHub repo categorizes high-performance prompts for Gemini 3 models

AI Studio adds custom URLs for published apps

Paige Bailey discusses building AI developer experiences

Paige Bailey, who shipped GitHub Copilot and led PM for PaLM 2, Gemini, and Gemma, now runs Developer Experience for Gemini at Google DeepMind. The interview covers her journey from geoscientist to shaping developer tools for frontier AI models.

We’re expanding Gemini in Chrome to users in the U.K.

Google is rolling out Gemini AI features in Chrome to UK users starting July 14, 2026. The expansion integrates Gemini into the Chrome browser for UK users.

How Gemini is speaking the language of Southeast Asia

Gemini's local language support drives adoption across Southeast Asia's mobile-first population. The report highlights daily usage patterns in markets like Indonesia and Thailand.

YouTube Android client integrates Google Gemini for video summaries

Year-end frontier forecast: GPT-6, Gemini 3.5 Pro, DeepSeek v4.5

ATL Saathi: Gemini-powered AI tool launched for Indian educators

ATL Saathi, powered by Gemini, helps educators in robotics labs across India. The tool was developed in partnership with the Atal Innovation Mission to support STEM education through AI-driven assistance.

Waze adds Gemini-powered AI features

Waze is integrating Google's Gemini AI assistant for personalized trip features. Two of four new updates involve Gemini, including voice commands. Google aims to make Waze 'less chatty' with a conversational interface.