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Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/google-now-offers-free-sat-pr…

Google now offers free SAT practice exams, powered by Gemini | TechCrunch
Students can prompt Gemini by typing "I want to take a practice SAT test,” and the AI will provide them with a free practice exam. Gemini then analyzes the results, highlighting strengths and identifying areas that need further review. It also offers detailed explanations for any incorrect answers. 

Mastodon días.
Una entrada recién salida del horno:
Convirtiendo ficheros markdown a gemini mediante md2gmi
En mi blog: https://jdrm.info/convirtiendo-ficheros-markdown-a-gemini-mediante-md2gmi.html
Y en

Samsung Galaxy S26: Perplexity erhält eigenes Hotword „Hey Plex“
Samsung setzt künftig auf ein „Multi-Agenten-KI-Ökosystem“ und integriert neben Bixby und Gemini auch Perplexity. Der Chatbot erhält sogar ein eigenes Hotword.

Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/politics/sec-crypto-winklevoss.html

S.E.C. Drops Case Against Cryptocurrency Firm Founded by Winklevoss Twins
The agency says that victims of an investment offering involving Gemini Trust got their money back, though after a regulatory action brought by the New York attorney general.

Kommende Gemini-App für macOS soll angeblich Bildschirminhalte analysieren
Um zur Konkurrenz aufzuschließen, entwickelt Google eine macOS-App für Gemini. Sie soll mit den Apps und Daten des Nutzers zusammenspielen.

A study testing four AI chatbots on 2,267 news stories in English and French: ChatGPT credited news outlets 1% of the time, Gemini 6%, Grok 7%, and Claude 16% (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/202…

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study)
"ChatGPT, one of the most widely used models, covered distinctive content in 54% of responses but almost never credited the originating newsroom."

Google bringt Gemini 3.1 Pro heraus
Neuer Tag, neues Modell: Google legt mit Gemini 3.1 Pro nach – für komplexe Aufgaben und besser als der Vorgänger.
https://www.heise.de/news/Google-bringt-Ge

Source: Google DeepMind signs a licensing deal with Hume AI, which builds emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and ~7 top engineers (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-hires-hume-ai-ceo-licensing-deal-gemini/

Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal
Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.

🇵🇱 Nowy wpis na #blog!
#OpenClaw - Personalny Asystent AI
https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/openclaw/

He encontrado un desarrollo que convierte markdown a gemini. Estupendo para pasar los documentos de Pelican a gemini poniendo bien todos los enlaces, secciones... Se viene artículo para el blog y retocar todos los artículos de la cšpsula

Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/898282/gemini-task-automation-uber…

Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive
Gemini’s task automation feature on the Samsung S26 and Pixel 10 series is an impressive glimpse at what the future of AI assistants could look like.

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

I’ve not really got into AI much at all, aside from some photographic editing. However, I was reading about Gemini earlier today, and decided to poke around in it. I’m not sure yet how it can help me.

A couple of weeks ago I used #gemini to whip up a prototype of WFxT support for #qemu: https://patche…

Reality Check Podcast: ChatGPT and Gemini Fail to Stop their AI Voice Tools From Spreading False Claims & an iPhone 18 Hoax
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-check-podcast-chatgpt-and

Künstliche Intelligenz von Apple: Siri als echter Chatbot und KI zum Anpinnen
Einem Bericht zufolge soll Apples Sprachassistentin dank Gemini zum echten Chatbot werden. Ein weiteres Gerücht betrifft ein erstes AI-Wearable des Konzerns.

Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91502632/google-most-innovative-companies…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s plan to make Gemini the only AI that matters
Under Pichai, the company that invented modern AI is finally winning the race to deploy it, making "AI everywhere" a business reality.

RE: #Gemini #GoogleCoin #security

ASASSN-24fw - Candidate Gas-rich #Circumsecondary Disk Occultation of a Main-sequence Star: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1fd9 -> Massive Cloud With Metallic Winds Discovered Orbiting Mystery Object: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2602/ - astronomers using the Gemini South telescope achieve unprecedented detection of vaporized metals within a dusty, gaseous cloud during rare stellar occultation.

Apple confirmed that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri that is slated to launch later this year.
The next-generation version of Siri is expected to be introduced with iOS 26.4,
which will likely be released to the general public in March or April.
The new capabilities will include better understanding of a user's personal context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls.
For example, Apple showed an iPhone user asking Siri abou…

Apple Confirms Google Gemini Will Power Next-Generation Siri This Year
In a statement shared with CNBC today, Apple confirmed that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri that is slated to launch...

Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-gemini-sees-skyrocketi…

Google’s Gemini Sees Skyrocketing Business Sales
Google’s improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company’s top line. Over the past year, Google’s business selling access to its Gemini AI models has skyrocketed, reflecting the improving quality of those models, according to three people with knowledge of Gemini’s sales. That’s ...

Wer sich online auf den Text konzentrieren möchte, denen ist das hier zu empfehlen. Ich hoffe das es allgemein populärer genutzt wird.
»Das Gemini Protokoll:
Gemini bietet eine Alternative zum Anzeigen von Inhalten im Internet. Mit einem eigenen Protokoll, Servern und Webbrowsern eröffnet der Geminispace eine sichere, reduzierte und fokussierte Möglichkeit, das Internet neu zu gestalten«
— von @…

Das Gemini Protokoll
Gemini bietet eine Alternative zum Anzeigen von Inhalten im Internet. Mit einem eigenen Protokoll, Servern und Webbrowsern eröffnet der Geminispace eine sichere, reduzierte und fokussierte Möglichkeit, das Internet neu zu gestalten.

Personal Intelligence: Googles Gemini wird noch persönlicher
Gemini wird ein KI-Assistent, der Kontext versteht – basierend auf Gmail, Fotos, Such-Historie und YouTube-Verlauf. Zunächst als Beta-Version.
https:…

Google invests an undisclosed sum in Sakana AI, valued at $2.6B in November 2025, to boost Gemini's presence in Japan; Sakana AI gains access to Google's LLMs (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Demis Hassabis says there aren't "any plans" to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says "maybe they feel they need to make more revenue" (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/googles-ai-boss-no-plans-for-ads

Google's AI boss: No plans for ads in Gemini
During our convo in Davos, Demis Hassabis and I chatted about ads in AI, Google's new deal with Apple, humanoids, and Gemini 4.

Hugo is becoming my favorite static site generator.
It really only took a few minutes to make it generate pages in the Gemini hypertext format (“gemtext”). Now you can read my blog in a wonderfully obscure way on the other, lesser known Internet:
gemini://tilde.pink/~johl/

Before you head out for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Trump officials might boycott RSAC citing Easterly's CEO position,
--Grubhub confirms data breach,
--China's UAT-8837 breached CIC orgs in N. America,
--Hackers exploit top severity flaw in Modular DS WordPress plugin,
--Flaw in MD CPUs exposes secure virtualization environment,
--Gemini 'personal intelli…

Trump officials might boycott RSAC citing Easterly's CEO position
Grubhub confirms data breach, China's UAT-8837 breached CIC orgs in N. America, Hackers exploit top severity flaw in Modular DS WordPress plugin, Flaw in MD CPUs exposes secure virtualization environment, Gemini 'personal intelligence' will scan everything, much more

Pero qué fantasía es esta https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

> Google calls the illicit activity "model extraction" and considers it intellectual property theft, which is a somewhat loaded position, given that Google's LLM was built from materials scraped from the Internet without permission.
https://

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says
Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

heise | Besser Essen mit KI: Unterstützung beim Abnehmen und gesunder Ernährung
Mit Fddb und Gemini lassen sich Kalorien schneller zählen und die Ernährung analysieren. Wir probieren, wie gut die KI bei den guten Vorsätzen hilft.

And now generative #AI will be in all of the #Google products, too...
https://

Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive | TechCrunch
The idea behind the new features is to make the apps more personal and capable to help users get things done faster, right within the platforms themselves.

Me: Let’s see how the FairPhone folks are doing… maybe I was overly harsh on them and they’ve used the time to wean themselves off of Google… what with being Waag and all…
Also me: fucking what the fuck now?
*sigh* 🤬

Apple bestätigt: Google Gemini wird neue Siri! Was das bedeutet
#Apple

Apple bestätigt: Google Gemini wird neue Siri! Was das bedeutet
Jetzt ist es offiziell: Google liefert mit Gemini den Unterbau für Apples künftige Siri-KI. Was das bedeutet, ob Eure Daten weiterhin sicher sind und die Gründe. #Apple #Google #AI Kapitelmarken: 00:00 Intro: Apple nutzt Google Gemini für Siri 00:50 Apples offizielle Bestätigung der Partnerschaft 01:50 Siris Niedergang: Vom Pionier zum Problemfall 03:00 Die gescheiterten Versprechen von 2024 04:05 Details zum Gemini-Deal und den Kosten 05:15 Unterschied zu ChatGPT-Integration 06:45 Date…

Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is "a step forward in core reasoning", for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers; the .1 increment is a first for Google (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/19/google-announces-gem…

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro for ‘complex problem-solving’
In November, Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro in preview. Google today announced Gemini 3.1 Pro "for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough."

Immer mehr Menschen stellen ihre Fragen direkt an ChatGPT, Perplexity oder Gemini. Für Blogs bedeutet das: weniger Klicks – mehr indirekte Sichtbarkeit. Was bedeutet Generative Engine Optimization wirklich? Wir sprechen bei #9vor9 darüber #GEO

GEO: Warum Zitate in KI-Antworten die neue Sichtbarkeit sind #9vor9
Immer mehr Menschen stellen ihre Fragen direkt an ChatGPT, Perplexity oder Gemini. Für Blogs bedeutet das: weniger Klicks – aber vielleicht mehr indirekte Sichtbarkeit. Was bedeutet Generative Engi…

To maintain Apple’s privacy pledge, the Gemini-based AI will run directly on Apple devices or its private cloud system, which is powered by Apple’s own server chips, rather than running on Google’s servers. Google put significant engineering effort into getting a version of Gemini working on Apple’s servers, according to a person familiar with the partnership talks.

Tricks for using Google Gemini Live AI scene description in combination with The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind #blind

#Gemini keeps being funny with TTS.
> Cilium relies on CO-RE (Compile Once – Run Everywhere)
read as "Colorado RE" 😂 - btw that's how again you see how US centric all this stuff is; CO could mean a ton of other things...
https://

Nation-state hackers ramping up use of Gemini for target reconnaissance, malware coding, Google says https://therecord.media/nation-state-hackers-using-gemini-for-malicious-campaigns

Reschke Fernsehen: Hey ChatGPT, lass die Wirtschaft crashen
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/reschke-fernsehen/hey-chatgpt-lass-die-wirtschaft-crashen/das-erste/Y3JpZDov…

Bixby bekommt neues Leben eingehaucht – mit KI von Perplexity
Samsung will seinem eigenen Sprachassistenten Bixby neues Leben einhauchen: Dabei hilft jedoch nicht Google mit Gemini, sondern der Mitbewerber Perplexity.

Here's the story of how my factual queries to Google's AI system Gemini* led to it making up an elaborate fictional narrative about why and how the school bombing in Iran was done for good reasons…
https://woborders.blog/2026/03/01/gemini-fanfic-iran/

Worse than useless: Google Gemini synthesizes pro-military fan fiction about school attack in Iran
Without a doubt, the most horrifying event of the first day of the new US–Israeli war on Iran was the air strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab (Wikipedia), in the southwestern province …

Siri mit Googles Gemini: Diese Features sind geplant
Apple hat sich entschieden: Der Konzern holt sich für Siri Technik von außen. Einem Bericht zufolge gibt es erste Infos, was mit Google-Hilfe kommt.
https://www.

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

»Sicherheitslücke bei Gemini — Ein Kalendereintrag reicht, um die KI zu manipulieren:
Laut Sicherheitsforscher:innen gelang es ganz ohne Malware, Gemini auszutricksen und private Informationen unbemerkt an Hacker weiterzuleiten. Inzwischen hat Google die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen verstärkt.«
Weshalb überrascht mich dies nicht & wie intelligent ist der Einsatz von KI & was ist dir deine Privatsphäre wert?!
🤷

Sicherheitslücke bei Gemini: Ein Kalendereintrag reicht, um die KI zu manipulieren | t3n
Laut Sicherheitsforscher:innen gelang es ganz ohne Malware, Gemini auszutricksen und private Informationen unbemerkt an Hacker weiterzuleiten. Inzwischen hat Google die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen verstärkt. Eigentlich soll Googles KI-Assistent Gemini den Arbeitsalltag erleichtern. Das System ist eng in die Workspace-Apps des Unternehmens integriert. So kann Gemini beispielsweise in Google Drive Dokumente finden und zusammenfassen oder im Kalender Termine […]

Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may "remove support" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/google-restricts

Google Restricts AI Ultra Subscribers Over OpenClaw OAuth, Days After Anthropic Ban
Google AI Ultra subscribers report account restrictions for OpenClaw OAuth use. Anthropic banned third-party access days earlier.

Demis Hassabis says there aren't "any plans" to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says "maybe they feel they need to make more revenue" (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/googles-ai-boss-no-plans-for-ads

Google's AI boss: No plans for ads in Gemini
During our convo in Davos, Demis Hassabis and I chatted about ads in AI, Google's new deal with Apple, humanoids, and Gemini 4.

Kommentar: Apples Nutzung von Googles Gemini ist logisch – und ein Armutszeugnis
Dem iPhone-Hersteller gelingt es nicht, konkurrenzfähige KI-Modelle zu entwickeln. Ausgerechnet Google liefert den Befreiungsschlag. Was bedeutet das?

Here’s the Memo Approving Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot for Use in the Senate https://www.404media.co/heres-the-memo-approving-gemini-chatgpt-and-copilot-for-use-in-the-senate/

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US drops China Telecom, TP-Link router, and other data security bans before trade talks,
--Crypto-funded transactions for human trafficking soared in 2025,
--Prosecutors confirm former defense contractor exec stole and sold spy tools,
--APT hackers use Gemini AI to support all stages of an attack,
--Apple fixes zero-day exploit in sophisticated att…

US drops China Telecom, TP-Link router, and other data security bans before trade talks
Crypto-funded transactions for human trafficking soared in 2025, Prosecutors confirm former defense contractor exec stole and sold spy tools, APT hackers use Gemini AI to support all stages of an attack, Apple fixes zero day exploited in sophisticated attack, much more

Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI falls 10% (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Gemini ousts COO, CFO and Chief Legal Officer after international exit and 25% staff cuts
Newly public crypto exchange Gemini Space Station Inc. said Marshall Beard, Dan Chen and Tyler Meade are departing effective immediately, days after the company announced plans to shut down U.K., EU and Australia operations and refocus on the U.S. and prediction markets.

CES: Google TV bekommt neue Gemini-Funktionen
Google kündigt auf der CES neue Gemini-Funktionen für Google TV an. Neben der KI-Bild- und Videogenerierung kommt auch TV-Steuerung per Sprache.
https://www.

Nach Siri-Fail: Apple setzt für KI-Modelle auf Google Gemini
Apples eigene KI-Modelle bringen es offenbar nicht: Google-Technik soll nun im Unterbau helfen – wohl auch bei neuen Funktionen für die überalterte Siri.

«Google und OpenAI beklagen KI-Datendiebstahl durch Modell-Destillation:
[…] Gemini massiv von Angreifern attackiert, die das Modell durch sogenannte Destillation kopieren wollten. Eine Kampagne habe Gemini über 100.000 Mal mit Anfragen bombardiert, berichtet NBC News. Google nennt das Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums. […]»
Zwei der Datenkonzerne, die vom Datendiebstahl leben, beklagen dass sie selber Opfer sind?!??
🤔

Google und OpenAI beklagen KI-Datendiebstahl durch Modell-Destillation
Google und OpenAI beklagen sich über Ideenklau; ausgerechnet die Unternehmen, die selbst mit riesigen Mengen fremder Daten trainiert haben. Doch hinter den Vorwürfen steckt ein ernstes Problem: Angreifer versuchen systematisch, Milliarden-Dollar-Modelle zu kopieren, ohne selbst zu investieren.

Google updates Gemini 3 Deep Think to better solve modern science, research, and engineering challenges and expands it via the Gemini API to some researchers (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gem…

Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering
We’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, our specialized reasoning mode.

Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-using-gemini-give-chatgpt-like-ans…

How Apple is Using Gemini to Give ChatGPT-Like Answers
In another AI win for Google lately, Apple announced on Monday that it will use Google’s Gemini models to power its artificial intelligence features, including an upcoming updated version of its Siri voice assistant.With Gemini powering its answers, Siri will have the ability to answer factual ...

Googles ungeschützte API-Keys wegen Gemini-KI ein Sicherheits- und Kostenrisiko
Sicherheitsforscher haben fast 3000 öffentlich sichtbare API-Keys von Google gefunden, die Gemini autorisieren. Das ermöglicht missbräuchlichen Zugriff.

Nach Gemini-Siri-Deal: Google nun Apples „bevorzugter Cloud-Anbieter“
Apple Intelligence und Siri basieren bald auf Google Gemini. Unter iPhone-Nutzern sorgt für Unruhe, dass der Deal auch Google-Cloud-Dienste umfasst.

Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the beginning of 2026 and had 445 employees as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M in 2025 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…

Google told advertisers that it is integrating direct shopping into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Recién calentito de mi blog, y mi cšpsula #gemini, una breve introducción a #libreTranslate gemini://jdrm.info/articulos/…

Gemini navigiert Fußgänger bei Google Maps
Google Maps bekommt dank Gemini eine KI-Navigation für Fußgänger und Fahrradfahrer. Dazu gehören auch Umgebungsinformationen.
https://www.heise.de/news/G…

Gemini für Android wird agentisch: KI bestellt Essen oder einen Fahrdienst
Gemini wird in Android 17 mächtiger: Googles nächste Iteration des mobilen Betriebssystems soll mehr agentische Fähigkeiten erhalten.

Google says Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but also future Apple Intelligence features (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/google-gemini-future-apple-intelligence-features/

Google Says Gemini Partnership With Apple Will Go Beyond Siri Revamp
Google today announced that its AI platform Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but a range of future Apple...

Siri 2.0: Apple zahlt angeblich Milliarden für Googles KI-Modelle
Die Partnerschaft mit Google kehrt Apple gerne unter den Teppich. Mit dem Rückgriff auf Gemini-Modelle für die Apple-KI wird diese aber deutlich vertieft.

KI-Update: Google Beam, GPT-5.4, Wahnbeziehung zu Gemini, KI-Fazit vom MWC
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for the Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…

Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence, linking to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to provide context-aware responses, for paid users (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-gemini-personal-intelligence/

Gemini's new Personal Intelligence will look through your emails and photos - if you let it
Can the feature do what Apple Intelligence promised? Here's what it will and won't have access to, and how it'll impact privacy.

Google Gemini erkennt, welches Resteessen noch im Samsung-Kühlschrank steckt
Samsung stattet einen smarten Kühlschrank der Bespoke-Reihe mit Googles Chatbot und Bild-KI aus, um Einkaufslisten und Zutatenauswahl zu erleichtern.

heise | Duell der KI-Titanen: Wie schlagen sich ChatGPT und Gemini auf Apple-Hardware?
OpenAIs ChatGPT und Googles Gemini zählen zu den populärsten Apps und bieten KI-Modelle auf Spitzenniveau. Wie gut sind sie auf iPhone und Mac?

Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by "commercially motivated" actors who are trying to clone it, including one campaign that prompted it 100K times (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google…

Google: Gemini hit with 100,000+ prompts in cloning attempt
Google says its flagship AI chatbot, Gemini, has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone the chatbot.

Apple announces a multi-year deal to use Google's Gemini to power new Siri features later in 2026, saying Google's tech "provides the most capable foundation" (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html

Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year
Google's market value surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019 last week and topped $4 trillion on the news.

Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-musk-reacts-to-gemini-siri/

Elon Musk Reacts to Apple and Google Teaming on Gemini-Powered Siri
Elon Musk today expressed concern about Apple and Google partnering on a more personalized version of Siri powered by Google's generative AI...

#heiseshow: Metaverse, Apple-KI, ChatGPT in der Schule
In der #heiseshow: Das Metaverse lässt Federn, Apple setzt auf Google Gemini und ein Gericht urteilt über ChatGPT in der Schule.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, which it says delivers "enhanced performance" at a fraction of the cost of larger models and outperforms 2.5 Flash (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-mo…

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.

Google bringt mehr KI in Gmail
Google stattet Gmail mit neuen KI-Funktionen aus, die auf Gemini basieren. Einige Features, wie KI-Übersichten, werden für alle Nutzer kostenlos verfügbar sein.
https://www.heise.…

Apples KI-Strategie: Auch Datenschutz sorgt für Verzögerungen
Auch nach dem Beginn der Kooperation mit Google für Gemini-basierte Sprachmodelle ändert sich an Apples Strategie wenig. Die Ansage kommt von ganz oben.

Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, letting CarPlay users access apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/18/ios-26-4-carplay-support/

iOS 26.4 Brings CarPlay Support for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
With iOS 26.4, CarPlay users will be able to use third-party chatbots with CarPlay. AI services like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT will be accessible...

KI-Update: Social Media für KI, Wie nah ist AGI?, Gemini für Fußgänger, Q.AI
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask "complex, real-world questions" (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/893262/google-maps-gemi…

You can now ask Google Maps ‘complex, real-world questions’ — and Gemini will answer
Google Maps announced two new AI-powered features: Ask Map and Immersive Navigation, letting users ask conversational questions and upgrading the navigation setting to include more details.

Google erbarmt sich: YouTube bekommt Vision-Pro-App
visionOS-Nutzer können seit Donnerstag unverhofft einen offiziellen YouTube-Client nutzen. Ob es an Googles Gemini-Kooperation mit Apple liegt, ist unklar.
https://www.…

Dienstag: Gericht stärkt Sportrechteinhaber, Apple ist Branchenprimus
Kampf gegen illegale Sportstreams Smartphone-Markt mit globalem Wachstum Datenleck bei Instagram Apple setzt auf Google Gemini Meta kürzt beim Metaverse

Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics models into Atlas robots, boosting their object-manipulation capabilities and more (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-boston-dynamics-gemini-powered-robot-atlas/

Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors
Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are teaming up to integrate Gemini into a humanoid robot called Atlas.

Google rolls out Gemini-powered AI capabilities across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, including a "Help me create" tool in Docs to generate first drafts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/google-r…

Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive | TechCrunch
The idea behind the new features is to make the apps more personal and capable to help users get things done faster, right within the platforms themselves.

Google says the Gemini app has 750M MAUs, up from 650M last quarter, and its first-party models process 10B tokens per minute via direct API use by customers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/googles-gemini-app-has…

Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users | TechCrunch
Google revealed a significant milestone for its Gemini app, announcing over 750 million monthly active users as it competes with ChatGPT and Meta AI.

Google plans to integrate Nano Banana and Veo support into Gemini on Google TV, letting users generate AI videos and modify family photos, first on TCL TVs (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/854112/gemini-google-tv-nano-banana-veo-ces

Gemini on Google TV is getting Nano Banana and voice-controlled settings
Gemini on Google TV is getting Nano Banana and Veo support, plus natural language control over picture and audio settings.

Google told advertisers that it is integrating direct shopping into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google unveils Home updates to fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies, and debuts Live Search to let Gemini analyze and describe live camera feeds (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/888008/big-google-home-updat…

Big Google Home update lets Gemini describe live camera feeds
Google Home updates fix a long list of annoyances and introduces Live Search to give Gemini the power to describe what your cameras see.

OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/liz-reid-google-search-gemini-interview

Liz Reid on where Google Search ends and Gemini begins
This week on the podcast: the head of Google Search. Also: OpenAI pauses Adult Mode and ends its Code Red, and Anthropic goes on an apology tour.

Google expands Gemini's hands-free conversational capabilities to walking and cycling modes in Google Maps, available on iOS and rolling out on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/google-maps-now-lets-you-…

Google Maps now lets you access Gemini while walking and cycling | TechCrunch
When you're walking around and navigating with Maps, you can now ask Gemini questions like "What neighborhood am I in?" or "What are top-rated restaurants nearby?"

Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling it to autonomously navigate apps like Uber and DoorDash (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/884210/google-gemini-samsung-s26-pixel-10-uber

Gemini is getting its first agentic capabilities
Google’s AI assistant will be able to hail an Uber for you or put together a grocery order — all on its own.

Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-lab-walmart-openai-shaking-up-agentic-shoppin…

Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions "seamlessly" via AI Mode (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868497/google-ai-search-follow-up-questions-gemini-3

Google Search now lets you ask AI Overviews follow-up questions
Gemini 3 will be the default model for AI Overviews and Google says follow-ups let you jump seamlessly into conversations with AI Mode.

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/googles-personal-int…

Google's Personal Intelligence feature is expanding to all US users | TechCrunch
Personal Intelligence allows Google's AI assistant to tap into your Google ecosystem, such as Gmail and Google Photos, to provide more tailored responses.

Google schedules I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, teasing the "latest AI breakthroughs and updates" in Gemini, Android, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/google-io-2026-date/

Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20
Following the interactive puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2026 is taking place May 19-20...

Gemini exits the UK, EU and Australia and cuts 25% of staff, as the crypto exchange refocuses on the US due to foreign markets proving "hard to win" (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/388664/gemini-exits-uk…

Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-11/walmart-team…

Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, New Zealand, and Canada, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish (Charmaine D'Silva/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/prod…

Expanding Chrome’s AI experiences to India, New Zealand and Canada
We’re bringing Gemini in Chrome’s powerful AI features to more regions and languages, helping millions of people get the most out of their browser.

A US lawsuit says Gemini sent a man to find an android body it could inhabit, before he died by suicide; Google says it sent him to crisis hotlines "many times" (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-ai-wron

Sources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule (Jesse Coburn/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artifi…

Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”