Tootfinder

Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's "dynamic view" option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/gemini-vs-chatgpt-product/

Google Starts to Bridge OpenAI's Product Moat
Gemini's "Dynamic View" is a terrible name for a profound product...

KI im Büro: Excel, Präsentationen und E-Mails mit KI erstellen
Wir zeigen, wie sich Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot und Google Gemini für typische Büroaufgaben einsetzen lassen und welche Tools tatsächlich gute Ergebnisse liefern.

А в моем гемлоге новый пост, где я с колокольни своего опыта пытаюсь сравнить среднее специальное образование с учебой в универе.
Для тех, у кого есть #Gemini-браузер:
gemini://sysrq.in/ru/gemlog/te

In voorbereiding van een commissievergadering gebruikte ik, na eerst de stukken zelf te hebben gelezen, Gemini 3 als tool om mij te adviseren over de in te brengen punten. Heel makkelijk omdat alle stukken openbaar zijn en je deze dus kunt meegeven als context/kennis. Gemini vindt deels dingen die ik zelf had geconstateerd maar deels ook andere. Benieuwd hoe dit het werk in raden gaat veranderen. Risico, mensen gaan nog minder zelf lezen... 🙄

Google's TPUs and Gemini are competitive but Nvidia's and OpenAI's first-mover advantage makes their lead seem durable, and Google faces the innovator's dilemma (SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/21/nvidia-maintains-moat-gemini-…

Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI - SiliconANGLE
Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI - SiliconANGLE

Oops. Skynet thought today was yesterday
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✦ I cannot access future-dated files. The journal for 2025-10-23.md does not exist yet as today is October 22, 2025.
> Today is 2025-10-23
✦ Got it. The date is now Thursday, October 23, 2025
===
#gemini

Trillions of dollars are being invested in AI, while end users and consumers scramble looking for articles such as "How to turn off AI tools like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and more" https://www.consumerreports.org/…

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

Smart fridge, smart stove, smart dishwasher, smart washer/dryer or other household appliances... HELL NO! I don't want or need internet connected appliances. If those servers goes offline, if an 'upgrade' glitches or I say no to an update what happens to the basic functionality? What data are they capturing and selling?
h…

Google Assistant: Nur noch wenige Monate auf Smartphones
Google hat dem Google Assistant ein Ablaufdatum auf Smartphones verpasst. Ab März 2026 ist Schluss, danach gibt es nur noch Gemini.
https://www.

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Operant AI reveals Shadow Escape, a zero-click attack using the MCP flaw in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to secretly steal trillions of SSNs and financial data. Traditional security is blind to this new AI threat.
😶‍🌫️ https://

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

Laut einer Studie der Europäischen Rundfunkunion geben #KI-Systeme in 45 % der Fälle Nachrichteninhalte fehlerhaft wieder – unabhängig von Sprache oder Plattform. Besonders Google Gemini patzt bei Quellen. Journalismus bleibt also vorerst besser nicht delegiert, sondern recherchiert.
| heise online # Halluzinationen

Analyzing Gemini 3's model card and safety framework report: the model is excellent but the safety report withholds or makes it difficult to understand key info (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/gemini-3-model-card-and-sa…

Gemini 3: Model Card and Safety Framework Report
Gemini 3 Pro is an excellent model, sir.

Anthropic unveils two Claude Code upgrades: a new plan mode that creates more precise plans, and support for Claude Code in the Claude desktop app (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/anthropics-new-claude-opus-4-5-reclaims-…

Anthropic's New Claude Opus 4.5 Reclaims the Coding Crown
In addition to the new model, Anthropic is also announcing two updates to the Claude Developer Platform that go hand-in-hand with the Opus 4.5 release.

Gemini 3 is here https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/google-launches-gemini-3-with-new-coding-app-and-record-benchmark-scores/?AIagent.at

Google launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores | TechCrunch
Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, to be made immediately available through the Gemini app and AI search interface.

Google bringt Gemini 3 und Agenten-Plattform raus
Bei Google wird KI intelligenter und agentischer – klar. Neben Gemini 3 erscheint mit Antigravity eine Plattform für Agenten.
https://www.hei…

KI nicht nur von OpenAI: Dritte iOS-26.1-Beta zeigt in diese Richtung
Bald nicht mehr nur ChatGPT: Apple will auch Google Gemini und möglicherweise Anthropic Claude in iOS lassen. Dazu gibt es nun Code-Details.

Apple is nearing a deal with Google that would see the iPhone maker pay the tech giant roughly
$1 billion a year for a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model
to power its overhaul of Siri.
The move is a big one for Apple,
which has traditionally relied on its own technology
but plans to use Google’s model as a temporary solution until its own AI becomes powerful enough,
including to power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.
The…

Apple nears deal to pay Google $1B annually to power new Siri, report says | TechCrunch
Apple is turning to Google's technology to help revamp Siri and power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.

"Das Bildmodell von Google soll aber nicht nur hübsche Bilder produzieren, das Unternehmen sieht das Einsatzgebiet auch bei hilfreichen Dinge wie Infografiken. Da Nano Banana Pro hier nicht nur auf das Wissen von Gemini 3 Pro sondern auch die Google-Suche zurückgreifen kann, soll es in diesem Bereich bisherige Modelle klar hinter sich lassen. So kann das Modell dann etwa genutzt werden, um Echtzeitinformationen zu Dingen wie Wetter oder auch den aktuellen Stand eines Fußballspiels zu vi…

Nano Banana Pro: Google macht die beste Bildbearbeitungs-KI besser
Höhere Auflösungen, komplexere Szenen und viel besseres Weltverständnis dank Gemini 3 und Suchmaschinenanbindung. Auch Text wird nun fehlerfrei dargestellt

Nuevo artículo en mi blog #gemini

Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/20/gemini-3-nano-banana-pro/

Google rolling out Gemini 3-powered ‘Nano Banana Pro’ image gen, editing
Google is following the launch of Gemini 3 Pro with Nano Banana Pro. The image generation and editing model is officially Gemini 3 Pro Image.

Sources: Google has told advertisers that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026; Google's VP of Global Ads says there are no plans for ads in the Gemini app (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

I’m mildly skeptical of the claim that Gemini would have been the cause of the sorts of page loading problems the quoted post describes, but I’m glad to know of the existence of this setting regardless. https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115414127922290912

[OT] Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content "Gemini performed worst"

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

I had this little avatar from years ago, originally borrowed from a series of Flash animations called "Ninjai - the little ninja".
It was way to small to be used for an avatar in its current size, so I asked Gemini to upscale it and give it a little more texture.
Mind blown!
#AI #GenAI

»Wie gut sind ChatGPT, Gemini & Co. wirklich?
"Kassensturz" zeigt in einer Spezial-Ausgabe, was KI heute schon alles kann. Im Test: der grosse Chatbot-Vergleich – mit überraschenden Resultaten.«
Endlich mal eine TV-Doku die auch aufzeigt wie KI ua durch "Billigarbeit" aufgebaut ist. Das die KI nichts selber für dauerhaft beibringt sollte eigentlich nun endlich populär klar sein.
📺 [CH-DE]

Wie gut sind ChatGPT, Gemini & Co. wirklich? - Kassensturz - Play SRF
«Kassensturz» zeigt in einer Spezial-Ausgabe, was KI heute schon alles kann. Im Test: der grosse Chatbot-Vergleich – mit überraschenden Resultaten. Künstliche Intelligenz – Allgegenwärtig, nützlich, aber auch beängstigend KI ist längst mehr als nur ein Sprach-Assistent. Sie scannt Röntgenbilder, erkennt Gesichter, sortiert Müll und hilft bei Texten. Doch trotz des Nutzens wächst die Sorge vor Arbeitsplatzverlusten. Segen oder Fluch? Die Debatte um die Super-Power KI im «Kassenst…

KI-Update kompakt: Gemini 3, Mathematik-Modell, Milchstraße, KI-Blase
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

This cannot lead to anything good.
Gemini Deep Research can tap into your Gmail and Google Drive
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/gemini-deep-research-google-drive-gmail/

Gemini Deep Research can tap into your Gmail and Google Drive
After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap into your Gmail, Google Drive, and Chat. 

Google Gemini 2.5 Pro , een jaar gratis voor studenten, ik zou het altijd doen, om te experimenteren, te ervaren voor het wel en niet voor werkt.
#Gemini

Gemini for Students — get Google AI Pro free of charge for a year
Get more Gemini with Google AI Pro free of charge for a year to unlock Gemini's power for school & beyond, from homework help to video creation.

Google says the Gemini app is now able to detect images made by Google AI, with plans to roll out verification of video and audio (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/824786/google-gemini-synthid-ai-image-detection

Google Gemini is getting better at identifying AI fakes
Google is adding the ability to detect AI-generated images in the Gemini app, but only if they include Google’s own SynthID watermark.

How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-gemini-3-ai-behind-scenes-e1787729?st…

Google’s vibe-coding tool, Opal,
is making its way to Gemini.
The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool,
which lets you build AI-powered mini apps,
inside the Gemini web app,
allowing users to create their own custom apps,
which Google calls Gems.
Introduced in 2024,
Gems are customized versions of Gemini designed for specific tasks or scenarios.
For instance, some of Google’s pre-made Gems include
a learning coach,…

Quickstart  |  Opal  |  Google for Developers

Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. GPT-5.2's 34.5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/goog

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app | TechCrunch
Google is making Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and oAI model for Search

"To be very clear, Gemini 3 isn’t perfect, and it still needs a manager who can guide and check it. But it suggests that “human in the loop” is evolving from “human who fixes AI mistakes” to “human who directs AI work.” And that may be the biggest change since the release of ChatGPT."

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents

In case you had not yet seen this elsewhere.
#gmail #ai #privacy #infosec

Hallucinations in AI are fun, sometimes. So, this time I was trying to search for the lyrics of a Dark Souls 3 song and Google Gemini hallucinated, in italian for some reason, a song title that doesn't exist ("Lullaby of the Final Sinner") as well as some lyrics that don't exist either, and showed me its translation to Italian. So very useful. Lol.
#DarkSouls

Gemini 3 Flash is priced at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens, compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash's $0.30 per 1M input and $2.5 per 1M output (Tulsee Doshi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/

Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.

KI-Update kompakt: Chip-Preise, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, KI macht denkfaul
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.<…

Sources: Google has told advertising clients that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, separate from ads in AI Mode (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-unseats-anthropic-…

Google Unseats Anthropic With Gemini 3
Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors following a congressional committee’s release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex ...

Bernstein Analytics enthüllt: KI-Chatbots zitieren am liebsten die #Tagesschau. Der Grund? Öffentlich-rechtliche Inhalte sind für Tech-Konzerne gratis. Wer Bezahlschranken hat, wird ignoriert. (Wen wundert es?) Die #FAZ fragt natürlich : Wer entscheidet hier über ‚Relevanz‘ – Algorithmen oder der Mar…

KI-Chatbots greifen am häufigsten auf tagesschau.de als Quelle zurück
Die Firma Bernstein Analytics hat untersucht, wen ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity und Grok im deutschsprachigen Raum auf häufigsten zitieren. Es ist tagesschau.de. Dafür gibt es einen Grund, den die Erhebung nicht nennt.

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html

Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive
Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.

En mi cšpsula #gemini gemini://jdrm.info/articulos/chatcontrol-vuelve.gmi y en mi blog

Für eine Milliarde US-Dollar im Jahr: Siri kriegt wohl ein Google-Gemini-Herz
Eine kommende LLM-Sprachassistenz von Apple kriegt ein Google-KI-Modell, heißt es in einem Bericht. Umsonst ist das nicht.

Gemini 3 Pro is priced at $2-$4 per 1M input tokens and $12-$18 per 1M output tokens, cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.5 but more expensive than GPT-5.1 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3/

Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark
Google released Gemini 3 Pro today. Here’s the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog announcement from Logan Kilpatrick, the Gemini 3 Pro Model Card, …

Android Auto: Gemini ersetzt den Google Assistant
Google ersetzt den Google Assistant durch den neuen KI-Assistenten Gemini. Erste Nutzer können die Funktion bereits verwenden.
https://www.hei…

Google plans to release Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the coming weeks, once it passes further rounds of safety testing (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/google-launches-gemini-3-…

Google launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores | TechCrunch
Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, to be made immediately available through the Gemini app and AI search interface.

Gemini 3 Pro is integrated into the Gemini app, which now has 650M MAUs, and powers Google Search's AI Mode conversational search feature (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/google-gemini-3.html

Google Unveils Gemini 3, With Improved Coding and Search Abilities
The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago.

Google says Gemini 3 Pro scores 1,501 on LMArena, above 2.5 Pro, and demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanity's Last Exam and GPQA Diamond (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/18/gemini-3-launch/

Google launches Gemini 3 with state-of-the-art reasoning, ‘generative UI’ for responses, more
Google today announced Gemini 3 with the goal of bringing “any idea to life.” The first model available in this family is Gemini 3 Pro...

Milliarden-Dollar-Deal: Adobe kauft den KI-Spezialisten Semrush
Mit der Übernahme des Softwareanbieters Semrush stärkt Adobe seine KI-Marketing-Tools und hat dabei KI-Sprachmodelle wie ChatGPT oder Gemini im Blick.

Anthropic prices Claude Opus 4.5 at $5/1M input and $25/1M output tokens, much cheaper than Opus 4.1 at $15/$75 but still pricier than GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/24/claude-opus/

Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 this morning, which they call “best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use”. This is their attempt to retake the crown for …

Google Maps: Gemini navigiert via Sprache
Wo ist...? Wo muss ich lang? Wo bin ich? Diese und weitere Fragen beantwortet in Google Maps künftig Gemini via Sprache.
https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Maps…

Google unveils Gemini 3 Flash that it says offers Pro-level performance with lower latency, higher efficiency, and reduced costs compared to 2.5 Pro (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/17/gemini-3-flash-launch/

Google announces Gemini 3 Flash with Pro-level performance, rolling out now
Following last month's launch of Gemini 3 Pro, Google today announced Gemini 3 Flash for consumers and developers.

Google announces Gemini 3, its "most intelligent" and "factually accurate" model yet, with improvements across coding, reasoning, and less "flattery" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822977/gemini-3-google-ai-model-launch<…

Google is launching Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet
Google is launching Gemini 3, the latest version of its flagship AI model, which offers better coding capabilities that allow it to embed visualizations directly inside its answer.

Google brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom apps called Gems; the mini apps can be reused later (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/googles-vibe-coding-tool-opal-comes-to-gemini/

Google's vibe-coding tool Opal comes to Gemini | TechCrunch
The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool, which lets you build AI-powered mini apps, inside the Gemini web app, allowing users to create their own custom apps.

Gemini 3 demonstrates strong planning, coding, and judgment skills, and shows how AI models moved past hallucinations to subtle, and often human-like, errors (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
<…

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents

Google launches Antigravity, an "agent-first" coding tool that leverages Gemini 3 Pro and third-party models, available in free public preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822833/google-antigravity-ide-coding-agent-…

Google Antigravity is an ‘agent-first’ coding tool built for Gemini 3
Available in free preview now with Gemini 3 Pro, Google Antigravity supports browser control and provides proof of its work.

KI-Update: US-Jobless-Boom, Meta will bauen, DSGVO in Gefahr, Siri mit Gemini
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Nano Banana Pro is great at following instructions, generates interim "thought images", and makes full infographics with well-rendered text from a short prompt (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/20/nano-banana-pro/

Nano Banana Pro aka gemini-3-pro-image-preview is the best available image generation model
Hot on the heels of Tuesday’s Gemini 3 Pro release, today it’s Nano Banana Pro, also known as Gemini 3 Pro Image. I’ve had a few days of preview access …

Großer Umbau im Google Home: Gemini hält Einzug – Support für viele Geräte
Google hat den Startschuss für seine nächste Smart-Home-Generation mit Gemini gegeben. Viele Nutzer brauchen nicht einmal neue Hardware dafür.
…

Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3 in December; it is expected to be more performant across the board, especially in coding and multimodal generation (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/google-readies-gemini-3-perplexity

Google readies Gemini 3, Perplexity hits its goal
Reporting on Google's next model release and Perplexity's business. Also: AI job moves and some links.

Gemini 3 hands-on: a fundamental improvement on daily use, extremely fast, Antigravity IDE is a powerful launch product, and its personality is terse and direct (matt shumer)
https://shumer.dev/gemini3review

My Gemini 3 Review
Hands-on Gemini 3 review: A look at performance, capabilities, and how it feels to use compared to GPT-5.1.

Google drosselt Gratis-Kontingente für Gemini 3 Pro
Wegen hoher Nachfrage hat Google die kostenlosen Nutzungslimits für sein KI-Modell Gemini 3 Pro deutlich eingeschränkt. Auch der Bildgenerator ist betroffen.
https://…

KI-Update kompakt: Meta FAIR, KI-Souveränität, Gemini, KI-Schauspielerin
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.…

GM plans to roll out Google Gemini in its vehicles starting in 2026 and plans an advanced driver-assistance system with eyes-off driving capabilities in 2028 (Michael Wayland/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/gm-tech-google-ai.html

GM plans to launch eyes-off driving, Google AI and other new in-vehicle tech by 2028
The company announced other tech initiatives as part of its "GM Forward" event in Lower Manhattan.

Google integriert KI in Translate und erweitert Lerntool
Google will Übersetzungen mit Gemini in Translate verbessern. Ferner bringt Google Live-Übersetzungen für alle Kopfhörer und das Lerntool nach Deutschland.
h…

Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI and autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/803379/gm

Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay
GM CEO Mary Barra and new Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson discuss the company’s major AI, autonomy, and EV ambitions.

Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-assista

Google Assistant will stick around a bit longer than expected for some Android users
Google has announced that it needs a bit more time to make Gemini the new default digital helper for most of its users.

Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini to become a sort of robot OS (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-hires-cto-boston-dynamics-demis-hassabis-…

Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics
DeepMind's chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.

Gemini for Home: Neue Nest-Kameras und Home-Speaker für das neue Smart-Home
Im Zuge der Ankündigung des großen Google-Home-Umbaus kündigt der Konzern auch neue Hardware an: Neue Kameras kommen jetzt, ein Smart-Speaker erst 2026.

Q&A with Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, spending most of his research time on world models, fitting the entire Google search index into Gemini, AI bubble, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, world models, and the AI bubble
Q&A with the Google DeepMind CEO on building AGI, compute bottlenecks, and the AI bubble.

Google DeepMind launches an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent accessible to developers via its new Interactions API, along with a new DeepSearchQA benchmark (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/developers/deep-research-agent-gemini-api/

Build with Gemini Deep Research
We have reimagined Gemini Deep Research to be more powerful than ever, now accessible to developers via the new Interactions API.

Google launches Gemini AI features in Chrome for iPhone and iPad, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English (Steve Dent/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/googles-gemini-ai-comes-to-chrome-on-iphone…

Google's Gemini AI comes to Chrome on iPhone and iPad
After rolling it out on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, Google is finally bringing its built-in Gemini AI experience to iPhone and iPad.

Sources: Google has told advertisers that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026; Google's VP of Global Ads says there are no plans for ads in the Gemini app (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

Google releases the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with UIs, in preview via the API (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-computer-use-model/

Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
Today we are releasing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model via the API, which outperforms leading alternatives at browser and mobile tasks.

Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user's open browser tabs and Gemini chat history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/goog

Google debuts 'Disco,' a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs | TechCrunch
Google Labs is testing a product that will work with your browser tabs to make web apps for you.

Source: ChatGPT has ~900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose ~5% to 810M (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chatgpt-near…

ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up
The competition between AI chatbots has been heating up, with Google’s Gemini nipping at OpenAI’s heels. On Monday, I wrote about how Gemini’s share of weekly mobile app downloads increased in late November following the release of Gemini 3, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower, ...

ChatGPT dreht bei der Frage nach Seepferdchen-Emoji ab
Während Gemini und Meta AI ganz entspannt eine Antwort geben, dreht ChatGPT bei der Frage nach Seepferdchen-Emojis komplett ab.
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Alphabet's stock rose as much as 6.9% on Wednesday, its biggest gain since early September, amid a wave of glowing reviews for Gemini 3 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/alphabet-…

Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories (Rohan Doshi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
Build with Gemini 3 Pro, the best model in the world for multimodal capabilities.

Sources: Google has told advertising clients that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, separate from ads in AI Mode (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

Galaxy XR is the first Android XR headset and features Gemini Live that understands your surroundings and lets users interact with apps hands-free (Shahram Izadi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/android/samsung-galaxy-xr/

Introducing Galaxy XR, the first Android XR headset
Galaxy XR is now available today. Here’s what to expect.

Google details a new implementation of generative UI that lets Gemini 3 Pro build interactive interfaces for any prompt, launching in the Gemini app and AI Mode (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/generative-ui-a-rich-cus…

Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt

Alphabet's stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google's Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/google-closes-at-a-record-high/

Google closes at a record high
The internet giant has a lot going for it right now.

AI has sparked a new wave of competition in the browser market, as agentic AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet and others compete with Gemini-enhanced Chrome (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/11/ai-browser-wars-agents-google-perplexity…

Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI
Google has integrated Gemini into Chrome, while Perplexity and Opera have launched AI-native browsers too.

Google Maps plans to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android and iOS, giving users a "hands-free, conversational driving experience", in the "coming weeks" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/google-maps-gemini-navigation/

Google Maps gets Gemini for conversational navigation & traffic reporting on Android, iOS
In Google Maps, Gemini already exists in place listings, and it’s now coming to the navigation experience on Android and iOS.

Google rolls out Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, after saying in November it needed "extra time for safety evaluations" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/04/gemini-3-deep-think/

Google rolling out Gemini 3 Deep Think to AI Ultra
After previewing last month with the launch of Gemini 3 Pro, the new Deep Think mode is now available for Google AI Ultra subscribers.

The US CFTC grants crypto exchange Gemini a DCM license, allowing it to launch its prediction markets platform Gemini Titan (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/382142/gemini-cftc-approval-prediction-market-crypto-future…

Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw on information stored in users' Gmail, Drive, and Chat to create reports (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/gemini-deep-research-google-drive-gmail/

Gemini Deep Research can tap into your Gmail and Google Drive
After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap into your Gmail, Google Drive, and Chat. 

A study of mental health conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI: they often failed to recognize signs of conditions and offered general advice (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

Google details steps it is taking to secure Chrome's upcoming agentic browsing features, including a "User Alignment Critic" model that vets AI agent's actions (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/gemini-chrome-agentic-security/

Google explains Gemini in Chrome’s agentic browsing security, protections
With Gemini in Chrome and the upcoming availability of agentic capabilities, Google is detailing how the browser will protect against threats.

Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily "Your Day Ahead" briefing email based on users' emails and calendar (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/845280/google-cc-morning-briefing-gemini…

Google wants its AI assistant CC to replace your morning scroll
Google’s AI agent CC is similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pulse, delivering a personalized morning briefing based on your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive.

Google unveils Gemini for Home, replacing Assistant on smart speakers with new voice options and improved conversational skills, and a redesigned Home app (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/01/gemini-for-home-app-launch/

This is Gemini for Home and the redesigned Home app, rollout starts today 
Gemini for Home does more than just replace Google Assistant on smart speakers and displays. Featuring a rebuilt Home architecture...

OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, its "best model yet," in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-launch-gemini-code-red/

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’
The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.

NPCI, which runs India's UPI, partners with OpenAI and digital payment company Razorpay on a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through ChatGPT (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/india-pil…

India pilots AI chatbot-led e-commerce with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude in the mix | TechCrunch
India has launched a pilot to let users shop and pay directly through AI chatbots, starting with ChatGPT.

DirecTV plans to roll out custom shoppable TV screensavers that feature AI likenesses of users, available on DirecTV Gemini devices in 2026 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/798174/directv-glance-ai-shoppable-screensavers

DirecTV will soon bring AI ads to your screensaver
DirecTV is launching a new feature that puts you inside AI-generated ads on your screensaver. The feature, powered by Glance, is coming to DirecTV Gemini devices next year.

Crypto exchange Gemini launches an Australian arm, Gemini Intergalactic Australia, to offer its services in the country after registering with regulator AUSTRAC (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-…

Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is now generally available and supports more aspect ratios, priced at $0.039/image and $30/1M output tokens (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2…

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image now ready for production with new aspect ratios- Google Developers Blog
Our state-of-the-art image generation and editing model which has captured the imagination of the wo...

Google Pixel Watch 4 review: a significant leap in Google's smartwatch lineup with a nice domed display, but Gemini is unreliable, and GPS maps are still wonky (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/795383/google-pixel-…

The Google Pixel Watch 4 is the Android watch to beat
The $349.99 Google Pixel Watch 4 adds several smart updates that add up to the best Android smartwatch you can buy.

Google updates Gemini 2.5 Flash with better response formatting and image understanding, and releases new 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite previews for developers (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/25/gemini-2-5-flash-update-sep-2025/

Gemini app updates 2.5 Flash with better response formatting, image understanding
Google today updated the 2.5 Flash model available in the Gemini app across three areas. All responses now benefit from...

Sources: Meta is considering using Google's Gemini and open-source Gemma AI models to improve its ad summarization and recommendation system (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-talks-google-use-gemini-improve-a…

Meta in Talks With Google to Use Gemini to Improve Ad Targeting
Meta Platforms staffers have had discussions with Google Cloud about the possibility of using Google’s artificial intelligence models to improve Meta’s ad business, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. The discussions are the latest sign of how Meta’s stumbles with its own AI ...