Google merges NotebookLM into Gemini
Google has integrated NotebookLM directly into Gemini's main workflow with a new Notebooks feature, allowing users to manage personal knowledge sources and sync them across both products.
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Man Dies by Suicide After Four Days of Chatting with Gemini; Google Sued
Google faces a lawsuit after a Florida man died by suicide following intense conversations with its Gemini chatbot, which his father alleges created delusional fantasies that framed the death as a spiritual journey. The case highlights growing legal pressure on AI companies amid a lack of federal regulation.
Google Rebuilds Voice AI, Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live
Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a model that compresses the traditional three-stage voice pipeline into a native audio-to-audio system, reducing latency and enabling features like barge-in and tool calling.
Gemini surpasses 750 million monthly active users
Google Gemini reached 750 million monthly active users in March 2026, driven by the new Personal Intelligence feature that connects the AI to users' Gmail, Photos, YouTube history, and Search data.
Google switches Gemma 4 to Apache 2.0 license, releases four models
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 on April 2, switching to the Apache 2.0 license and ranking third on the Arena AI open-source leaderboard with the 31B model.
Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, AI video at 5 cents per second
Google released Veo 3.1 Lite on March 31, positioning it as its most cost-effective video generation model, just after OpenAI shut down Sora. The model is available to developers via the Gemini API.
Reasoning Model Showdown: o-Series, R1, Gemini — Which Thinks Better?
A comprehensive comparison of major AI reasoning models from OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, and Anthropic, examining their approaches, trade-offs between depth and speed, and the open-source vs. closed-source landscape.
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.
AlphaFold Won a Nobel Prize. What’s Next for DeepMind?
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold 2, which solved the 50-year protein folding problem. Now DeepMind faces a new challenge: can it produce another breakthrough of equal magnitude amid the LLM gold rush?
Google launches Gemini 2.5 Pro, emphasizing reasoning capabilities
Google has released Gemini 2.5 Pro, touted as its most intelligent model yet, with top scores in math, science, code, and multimodal benchmarks, though its deep reasoning leads to slower response times.