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Sources: Google is negotiating a deal with the US DOD that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing its previous stance (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google and Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal as Company Rebuilds Military Ties
Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy Google’s Gemini AI models in classified settings, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. If the two parties come to an agreement, it would expand Google’s ...

We’ve chosen the paper for @… next week (February 23rd): “Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions” by Lucy Osler.
(Is it this Lucy Osler: @…? We think so!)
We’ll have copies to give out tonight (6 PM, Vi…

Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator "automatically reflect" users' tastes (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/16/gemini-photos-personal-intelligence/

Gemini app using Personal Intelligence, Photos for tailored Nano Banana generation
With the international expansion underway, Gemini is now bringing together Personal Intelligence, Google Photos, and Nano Banana 2.

> 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.

AI / LLM sycophancy as a liability:
'A 2025 study by Fanous et al. tested GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The results: these systems changed their answers nearly 60% of the time when challenged by users'
https://

Claude is absolutely "king" of AI at the moment, i think however Gemini 3 Flash is good enough for most people and a lot cheaper. I have the feeling ChatGPT will lose this race (just guessing).
#AI #Claude #Anthropic

Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts users can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50 presets (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-google-chrome-ai-powered-skills/

How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’
The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Hm. Google Gemini has humans reading sampled chats for "quality assurance." And you can't opt out. How nice...
I wonder, how ethical would it be to flood Gemini with chats that say mean and nasty things about the human reviewers, for them to see? Or to encourage them to find a better job?
Not that I recommend being cruel to anyone, ever. But... guerilla tactics can be effective.

I compared the privacy of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity — here’s the one you should trust most with your personal info
I read the fine print so you don't have to

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

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/google-brings-its-gemi…

Google brings its Gemini Personal Intelligence feature to India | TechCrunch
The feature lets users connect Google accounts like Gmail and Photos to get personalized answers

I followed a link to a PDF file that was stored in Google Drive and got assaulted with options to let Gemini create an outline, list the main points, create an audio summary, or answer questions.
I just want to download a PDF file. That's it.
#noAI #ai

I am so regularly pleased with how good Gemini's AI research is that it's worth reflecting when it goes spectacularly wrong. These systems are still prone to hallucinating complete bullshit, convicingly.

RE: https://backend.newsmast.org/@DrMikeWatts/116400258829695498
This can't be repeated enough, i am a happy user of Gemini 3.1 (paid), but Google AI overviews are terrible...

A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, using tactics like memory manipulation via "Summarize with AI" buttons (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying
Companies like Google and OpenAI are leaning into AI-powered search tools. The SEO industry is responding with new tactics and tricks.

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.

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 …

How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis' https://www.404media.co/ai-psychosis-help-gemini-chatgpt-claude-chatbot-delusions/

Google says the Gemini app can now generate interactive 3D models and simulations; users must select the Pro model in the prompt bar (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/909391/google-gemini-ai-3d-models-simulations

Google’s Gemini AI can answer your questions with 3D models and simulations
Google is rolling out a new feature for its Gemini AI chatbot, allowing the tool to generate 3D models and simulations to explain the concepts you’re asking about.

"Cognitive surrender".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/opinion/ai-claude-chatgpt-gemini-mcluhan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W1A.nvg6.teoA33kuV9gh&smid=url-share

Wissenschaftler von #Stanford haben #ChatGPT, #Claude, #Gemini,

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.

A damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive.
In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data,
not “learning” from it.
Specifically, four prominent LLMs
— OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet
— happily reproduced lengthy excerpts from popular
— and protected
— works, with a stunning degree of accuracy.
They fou…

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.

I am not going to sit here and lie to you that I wrote this bash script all by myself. Yeah, I had it already (mostly), but got bored of reading man pages and borrowing from other people's scripts on the Internet and instead had THE best chat with Gemini ever, in which we both learned from our mistakes 😁
PS The sick CachyOS logo was entirely Gemini's idea. Good job AI buddy 😎

Guest post: Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers – Retraction Watch https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/30/guest-post-ai-chatgpt-generated-paper-pregnancy-math/

Guest post: Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers
Image generated by Google Gemini I had grown weary of the constant stream and abuse of spam invitations to submit manuscripts to journals and to attend fake conferences on the other side of the wor…

Sources: Meta delayed the launch of its Avocado model to at least May over performance concerns and discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power its products (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technology/meta-avocado-ai-model-delay…

Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns
The tech giant pushed back the timeline after spending billions to be on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence.

Now using an app made in Google AI studio that let me quickly summarize my timeline, a list or a hashtag for a certain period. Using Gemini 3 Flash. A timesaver to quickly get an overview of what is happening on Mastodon. All possible because of Mastodons open API's.
#mastodon #API

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

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.

In what was supposed to be a *security release* in their stable series, the #chromium upstream developers added #Gemini (that's Google's AI, if you're unfamiliar) PDF summary stuff to the tab UI.

Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868925/adl-ai-antisemitism-report-grok-chatgpt-gemini-claude-deepseek-llama-elon-musk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p52#a260128p52

Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/google-is-using-old-new…

Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods | TechCrunch
A new way to solve data scarcity: Turning qualitative reports into quantitative data with an LLM.

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with advanced world knowledge and precision text rendering and translation, across its products (Naina Raisinghani/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

For the past years the #Apple app store landing page has constantly been an ad for some mobile game about kings and clans that only existed to get people to pay for in-app purchases.
Now, whenever I open the app store on my phone it's always AI crap: "Learn with ChatGPT". "Do more with Gemini".

I know 'advanced, paid-for AI models are better than that' yada yada, but why are companies releasing models that are jaw-droppingly bad?
Gemini to a family historian, after making up records: 'My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information'

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

RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/116002264795696766
A further explanation by a blind user of The vOICe for Android on using The vOICe with Google Gemini Live AI and USB camera glasses is at

The Trump administration is planning to
👉use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations,
according to U.S. Department of Transportation records
and interviews with six agency staffers.
The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI’s “potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings,”
agency attorney Daniel Cohen wrote to colleagues.
The demonstration, Cohen wrote, would showcase “exciting new AI to…

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.”

When i don't have time to read all the posts in a Mastodon list, i now use a Gemini App (made in Google AI Studio) to quickly make a summary and overview of the highlights, shared links etc.
Mastodon lists are a great way to organize your Mastodonfeed by the way.
#mastodonlists #AI

“Unpacking the accessibility trap of Google Slides’ ‘Beautify’ feature”
https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/2026/03/25/unpacking-the-accessibility-trap-of-google-slides-beautify-feature/
I’ve added this as a bullet …

Unpacking the accessibility trap of Google Slides’ “Beautify” feature
If you use the Google Suite, you’re no doubt familiar with the daily creep of Gemini and other Google-based AI tools into your documents. In Google Slides, you’re constantly prompted to “beautify” …

Image credit: Google Gemini.
#MAGA #Christmas

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.

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

A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind "Summarize with AI" buttons (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying
Companies like Google and OpenAI are leaning into AI-powered search tools. The SEO industry is responding with new tactics and tricks.

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.

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.

‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning https://www.404media.co/blockade-the-right-is-using-ai-content-scanners-to-try-to-supercharge-book-banning/

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.

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👉 Hier zum Deal: https://amzn.to/3Og4oN2
Bestätigen auch Tests von The Quantified Scientis…

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.

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.

If you're using an LLM to generate passwords, STOP. For one, your chat logs are a matter of record and are open to people within the company! For another, LLMs aren't smart and don't know what they're doing, so that password isn't guaranteed to be any good. Just use apg or something

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 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.

Leaked memo: a top Senate administrator gave aides the green light to use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for official Senate work, including preparing briefings (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/us-senate-chatgpt-a…

ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved for Official Use in the Senate
New guidelines said Senate aides could use A.I. tools for official work, including research, drafting and editing documents, and preparing briefings and talking points for lawmakers.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID (Valeria Wu/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-…

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is now available across Google products.

Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?
The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.

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

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."

Sony launches the $330 WF-1000XM6 earbuds, with AI-powered beamforming mics for enhanced voice call clarity, improved ANC, and hands-free Gemini on Android (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to Pentagon's 3M-strong workforce, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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.

Google's experience in India has become a proving ground to scale AI in education, as the country accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/india-is-teaching-google-h…

India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale | TechCrunch
With the highest global usage of Gemini for learning, India is emerging as a key market shaping Google's approach to AI in education.

Voor mensen die voorbeelden zoeken waar GenAI toegevoegde waarde heeft. Betaalde AI modellen, zoals in mijn geval Gemini 3.1 Pro, zijn echt fantastisch in het genereren van oefenopgaven statistiek, je helpen als je het antwoord niet snapt, specifieke opgaven maken om bepaalde dingen te oefenen, echt geweldig. Het is ook niet verwonderlijk gezien de enorme hoeveelheid trainingsdata waar gebruik van kan worden gemaakt. Hallucinaties waren in de "pro" setting heel laag.

Google launches Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds using Genie 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini, for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869726/google-ai-project-genie-3-world-mode…

Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs
Google is launching Project Genie, an app that lets users test its Genie 3 AI world model, and I got to test it.

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with advanced world knowledge and precision text rendering and translation, across its products (Naina Raisinghani/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, "cognitive offloading" and "cognitive surrender", and more (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
https://www.n…

Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco
Marshall McLuhan was right about Claude, too.

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.

Google expands its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries and territories, including the US at $7.99/month, with "enhanced access" to Gemini 3 Pro and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/google-ai-plus-us/

Google AI Plus comes to US for $7.99, Google One 2 TB upgraded
After introducing the plan internationally in September, Google is bringing its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries, including the US. 

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 ...

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.

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.

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/google-launches-lyria-3-pro-musi…

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model | TechCrunch
Google is launching Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music model that generates longer, more customizable tracks, as it expands AI music tools across Gemini, enterprise products, and other services.

Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-piv

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.

Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI web browser for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-0…

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."

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. 

ADL study of Grok, ChatGPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek: Grok performed worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, while Claude was best (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868925/adl-ai-…

Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL
A new report by the Anti-Defamation League tested six chatbots for antisemitic content. Claude performed the best at detecting and refuting prompts; Grok performed the worst.

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.

Hachette and Cengage file to join an existing copyright infringement lawsuit against Google in which authors say Google used their books to train its Gemini LLM (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/p

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.”

Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while adhering to Apple's privacy standards (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-discus…

Apple Discusses Google Hosting New Siri as Need for Cloud Help Grows
In January, when Apple announced an agreement to use Google’s Gemini models in Apple products, it was an admission that the iPhone maker hasn’t been able to compete in AI on its own over the past couple years. But the deal also showed that Apple is again relying on an outside company to help it ...

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

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 releases new tools for its Gemini AI assistant that let users upload chat history and context from other AI apps, making it easier to switch from them (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletter…

Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/google-chrome-auto-browse/

Your Google Chrome browser just got a useful autopilot feature - here's how it works
Google's new Auto Browse feature aims to handle your digital chores by taking actions on your behalf.

Google says Nano Banana 2 can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, and will become the default image generation model in the Gemini app (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/google-launches-nano-bana…

Google launches Nano Banana 2 model with faster image generation | TechCrunch
Google is making Nano Banana 2 a default model in Gemini app and in AI mode

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...

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.

Letter: 100 Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/tech…

Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic
More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini’s use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.

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 Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/google-launches-lyria-3-pro-musi…

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model | TechCrunch
Google is launching Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music model that generates longer, more customizable tracks, as it expands AI music tools across Gemini, enterprise products, and other services.

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...

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.