Gemini 3.5 Pro slips by months
Google is reportedly months behind on Gemini 3.5 Pro as coding performance becomes the main test of its flagship model.
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Google workers press for layoff protections
More than 4,500 Google workers are asking Sundar Pichai for clearer layoff protections as Alphabet keeps pouring money into AI.
Demis Hassabis proposes pre-release testing for frontier AI models
Demis Hassabis proposes pre-release testing for frontier AI models. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
US AI models reach Chinese firms through Singapore
US AI models reach Chinese firms through Singapore. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
Gemini 3.5 Pro Slips From June to July
Google moved Gemini 3.5 Pro from a June release into July, leaving the flagship model limited to a small Vertex AI preview.
Google pushes cheaper image and video models
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast low-cost image generation and previewed Gemini Omni Flash for short video generation and conversational editing.
Gemini Spark moves onto the Mac
Google updated Gemini Spark with a macOS beta, more connected apps and proactive monitoring for topics such as sports, stocks, weather and email.
Gemini 3.5 Pro slips past June as prediction markets price July
Gemini 3.5 Pro slips past June as prediction markets price July
Google forms a coding push as AI-written code stalls near half
Google forms a coding push as AI-written code stalls near half
Google’s compute crunch reportedly cuts Meta’s Gemini access
Google’s compute crunch reportedly cuts Meta’s Gemini access
Google Home Speaker replaces Assistant with Gemini
Google’s $99.99 speaker is the first audio device built for Gemini for Home, with on-device inference, multi-step commands and premium subscription features.
Google and partners draft ARD for agent discovery
Agentic Resource Discovery uses ai-catalog.json files and registries so agents can find, compare and verify capabilities beyond tools they already know.
Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI
The Transformer co-author and former Character.AI founder joined OpenAI as head of architecture research, less than two years after Google’s costly Character.AI licensing deal.
Pichai's Stanford speech becomes a Google protest
About 200 Stanford students walked out during Sundar Pichai's commencement speech, focusing on Google's military and immigration enforcement contracts rather than AI itself.
Gemini-SQL2 tops 80 on the BIRD text-to-SQL benchmark
Google Research says a Gemini 3.1 Pro based system crossed 80 execution accuracy on BIRD without dedicated fine-tuning.
DiffusionGemma rewrites text generation as denoising
Google’s open 26B MoE model generates text in parallel, trading top quality for local speed above 1,000 tokens per second on H100.
Google and the FBI sue alleged Gemini scam operators
Google has joined the FBI in a lawsuit over alleged scams built around Gemini, turning AI abuse into a legal test case.
Google opens DiffusionGemma for faster text generation
DiffusionGemma applies diffusion-style decoding to text, generating chunks in parallel and showing another path beyond autoregressive language models.
German court says Google can be liable for AI Overviews
The ruling marks an early legal warning that AI-generated search summaries may expose platforms to responsibility for inaccurate or harmful content.
Gemini suffers a global outage lasting more than six hours
The interruption showed how dependent users have become on hosted AI assistants and why AI infrastructure now faces cloud-service reliability expectations.
Google pushes Gemini onto the World Cup screen
Google is using the 2026 World Cup to place Gemini across Search, lock-screen scores, Maps, Waze and fan image tools.
Apple rents Gemini to rebuild Siri
The new Siri reportedly uses a custom 1.2 trillion-parameter Gemini model under a three-tier routing system that keeps simple work local and heavy reasoning in Google’s cloud.
Apollo and Blackstone line up $36 billion for Anthropic TPUs
A private-credit structure would buy Google TPUs through an SPV and lease them to Anthropic, keeping the debt off Anthropic’s balance sheet.
Google Pledges Water-Positive Data Centers by 2030
Google says it will replenish more water than its data centers consume by 2030, pairing public water reporting with projects across 97 watersheds.
Google Tests an AI Search Opt-Out for UK Publishers
Google is adding Search Console controls that let sites stay out of AI Overviews, AI Mode and AI summaries in Discover, starting with a small UK trial.
Google quietly offers to buy private app code for AI training
A reported Google Play pilot asks developers to sell source code, including dormant projects, while the email itself avoids saying AI.
Alphabet to raise $80B for AI data centers, Berkshire invests $10B
Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion through stock sales to fund AI infrastructure, with Berkshire Hathaway contributing $10 billion.
Google turns Street View into a Genie world model
DeepMind connects 280 billion Street View images to Genie, making real places walkable as stylized 720p worlds for Ultra users.
Google API keys remain usable for 23 minutes after deletion
A security researcher found that revoked Google API keys stay active for an average of 23 minutes, with attackers succeeding over 90% of the time during that window.
Google's Universal Cart lets AI handle your checkout
Google unveiled Universal Cart at I/O 2026, a cross-service shopping cart that uses AI agents to track prices, manage purchases, and complete checkout automatically.
Google Antigravity 2.0 lets 93 AI agents build an OS in 12 hours
Google launched Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026, a standalone agent platform that can orchestrate 93 sub-agents to build an operating system in 12 hours.
Google’s Gemini Spark costs $100/month, connects 11 SaaS platforms
Google I/O 2026 introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI agent with its own Gmail address, priced at $100/month and integrated with 11 SaaS services via MCP.
Gemini 3.5 Flash beats GPT-5.5 in agentic benchmarks, costs just $1.5
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms GPT-5.5 on agentic benchmarks while being dramatically cheaper, and becomes the default model across Gemini app and Search.
Google I/O 2026: Gemini 4.0 Isn't the Headline Anymore
Google I/O 2026 kicks off tomorrow, but Gemini's big update is no longer the main event as the company shifts focus to AI agents and hardware.
Google I/O 2026 kicks off tomorrow, Gemini Omni leaks ahead of time
Google's I/O 2026 keynote begins May 19, with leaked details on Gemini Omni, Gemini 3.5, Spark, and Android XR glasses.
Google brings NanoBanana image generation to devices
Google brings NanoBanana image generation to devices. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.