Chrome Gets a Gemini AI Makeover: Smarter Browsing, Enhanced Security

2025-09-19
Chrome Gets a Gemini AI Makeover: Smarter Browsing, Enhanced Security

Google announced a major update to Chrome, integrating Gemini AI for a smarter browsing experience. Gemini acts as a browsing assistant, understanding context across multiple tabs to answer questions and even perform multi-step tasks like ordering groceries. The omnibox gains an AI Mode for powerful search and context-aware suggestions. AI also enhances security by proactively blocking scams and improving password management. This update aims to make Chrome a more helpful, secure, and intuitive partner, initially rolling out in the US with expansion planned for more regions and languages.

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Chrome's Biggest Upgrade Ever: Powered by Gemini AI

2025-09-18
Chrome's Biggest Upgrade Ever: Powered by Gemini AI

Google announced the biggest ever upgrade to Chrome, integrating Gemini AI to enhance user browsing experience. Gemini will anticipate user needs, help understand complex information, boost productivity and ensure safety. This upgrade includes ten AI-powered improvements, such as launching Gemini on desktop and mobile, allowing users to use Gemini to interpret web page information and increase efficiency. Enterprise users will also get access to Gemini via Google Workspace in the coming weeks.

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Google Launches Experimental Windows App: Alt+Space for Instant Search

2025-09-16
Google Launches Experimental Windows App: Alt+Space for Instant Search

Google has launched a new experimental Windows app in Labs designed for faster information retrieval. Pressing Alt+Space instantly searches computer files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web without window switching. Built-in Google Lens lets you select and search anything on your screen, easily translating images, solving homework problems, and more. AI Mode provides deeper AI-powered responses with follow-up questions and links.

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Gmail Security: Debunking Major Vulnerability Rumors

2025-09-02
Gmail Security: Debunking Major Vulnerability Rumors

Recent claims of a major Gmail security vulnerability are entirely false. Google assures users that Gmail's protections are strong and effective, blocking over 99.9% of phishing and malware attempts. The company emphasizes its ongoing investment in security, constant innovation, and clear communication about risks and protections. Google encourages users to adopt strong password alternatives like Passkeys and follow best practices for identifying and reporting phishing attacks.

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Google Search's AI Mode Gets a Powerful Upgrade: Your Personal Taskmaster

2025-08-21
Google Search's AI Mode Gets a Powerful Upgrade: Your Personal Taskmaster

Google is supercharging its AI Mode in Search, giving it advanced agentic capabilities and personalization. Now you can ask complex questions naturally, and AI Mode will handle the task, such as making restaurant reservations, scheduling appointments, and buying tickets. It searches across multiple platforms based on your preferences (party size, date, time, location, cuisine, etc.), and directly links to the booking page for easy completion. This is powered by Project Mariner's live web browsing, Search's partner integrations, and the power of Google's Knowledge Graph and Maps.

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Pixel 10: Stunning Upgrade, Enhanced Imaging Capabilities

2025-08-20
Pixel 10: Stunning Upgrade, Enhanced Imaging Capabilities

The Google Pixel 10 boasts a satin-finish metal frame, polished glass back, and the iconic camera bar, available in four expressive colors: Obsidian, Frost, Indigo, and Lemongrass. Its 6.3-inch Actua display shines with a peak brightness of 3000 nits for exceptional viewing. Audio is improved, featuring exceptional bass for an enhanced multimedia experience. Camera improvements are significant, highlighted by the first-ever 5x telephoto lens on this Pixel tier. This lens offers fast autofocus, 10x optical quality, and up to 20x zoom with Super Res Zoom, making long-distance shots easier than ever.

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Gemini CLI GitHub Actions: Your AI Coding Teammate is Here!

2025-08-07
Gemini CLI GitHub Actions: Your AI Coding Teammate is Here!

Google launches Gemini CLI GitHub Actions, a free AI coding assistant that automates issue and pull request management on GitHub. It intelligently triages and prioritizes issues, provides quick code review feedback, and even writes code, tests, and more based on your instructions. Simply mention @gemini-cli in an issue or pull request to get AI assistance. Currently in beta, available to developers worldwide.

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Google Search's AI Upgrade: Stable Traffic, New Opportunities for Websites

2025-08-07
Google Search's AI Upgrade: Stable Traffic, New Opportunities for Websites

Since integrating AI features, Google Search has seen relatively stable overall traffic, with a slight increase in high-quality clicks. While some sites may experience decreased traffic, this is largely due to shifting user preferences toward websites offering diverse content like forums, videos, and podcasts, as well as in-depth analysis and unique perspectives. Google's AI-powered Search aims to highlight, not replace, web content. It directs users to relevant sites using links and citations, respecting open web protocols. Google believes AI will create many opportunities, helping businesses and creators reach broader audiences.

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Jules, the Gemini 2.5-Powered Code Assistant, Launches Publicly

2025-08-07
Jules, the Gemini 2.5-Powered Code Assistant, Launches Publicly

Google's code assistant, Jules, is officially out of beta and launching publicly, powered by Gemini 2.5. During beta testing, thousands of developers tackled tens of thousands of tasks, resulting in over 140,000 publicly shared code improvements. Based on developer feedback, Jules has seen UI improvements, hundreds of bug fixes, and new features like reusable setups for faster task execution, GitHub integration, and multimodal support. Now leveraging Gemini 2.5 Pro's advanced reasoning capabilities for code planning, Jules produces higher-quality code. New tiered access is also available, offering increased usage limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

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Gemini App: AI-Powered Personalized Storybook Generator

2025-08-06
Gemini App: AI-Powered Personalized Storybook Generator

Google's Gemini app now lets you create personalized illustrated storybooks with read-aloud narration. Simply describe your story idea, and Gemini generates a unique 10-page book with custom art and audio. You can even use your own photos and files as inspiration, choosing from over 45 languages and a wide range of art styles, from pixel art and comics to claymation. Perfect for explaining complex topics, teaching valuable lessons, or turning kids' drawings and family photos into magical stories. Bring your vision to life!

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Google Updates goo.gl URL Shortener: Some Links Expiring August 25th

2025-08-02
Google Updates goo.gl URL Shortener: Some Links Expiring August 25th

Google previously announced the discontinuation of goo.gl URL shortening service on August 25, 2025, but has adjusted its approach. Inactive goo.gl links from late 2024 will be deactivated; accessing them will display a message indicating their impending expiration. All other actively used goo.gl links will remain functional. Google recommends users migrate affected links to alternative URL shortening services.

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Google Earth AI: Tackling Global Challenges with AI

2025-07-31
Google Earth AI: Tackling Global Challenges with AI

Google unveils Google Earth AI, a collection of geospatial models and datasets designed to help individuals, businesses, and organizations address the planet's most critical challenges. AlphaEarth Foundations, also announced today, is a component of Google Earth AI. Building on recent Geospatial Reasoning efforts, Google Earth AI includes models for detailed weather prediction, flood forecasting, and wildfire detection. Other models improve urban planning and public health by providing insights into imagery, population dynamics, and urban mobility. These models power features used by millions, such as flood and wildfire alerts in Search and Maps, and provide actionable insights through Google Earth, Google Maps Platform, and Google Cloud. Google is committed to continuing this work, providing the information needed to solve some of the biggest challenges of our time.

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Google AI Product Usage Survey Embedded Multiple Times

2025-07-04
Google AI Product Usage Survey Embedded Multiple Times

A blog post contains multiple embedded instances of the same Google AI product usage survey. The survey aims to understand how frequently users utilize Google AI tools like Gemini and NotebookLM, and also gathers feedback on article improvements. The survey includes a question about usage frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, hardly ever, unsure) and an open-ended question asking for suggestions on improving the article (make it more concise, add more detail, make it easier to understand, include more images or videos, it's fine as is).

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Google Gemini 2.5: Faster, Cheaper, and More Powerful

2025-06-17
Google Gemini 2.5: Faster, Cheaper, and More Powerful

Google announces the general availability of its Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models, alongside a preview release of the even more cost-effective and faster Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. These models achieve a Pareto optimal balance of cost and speed, outperforming their predecessors across various benchmarks including coding, math, science, reasoning, and multimodal tasks. Flash-Lite especially excels in high-volume, low-latency applications like translation and classification. The Gemini 2.5 family boasts features like adjustable reasoning budgets, integration with tools like Google Search and code execution, multimodal input, and a massive 1 million-token context window.

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Android 16: Faster Updates, Smoother Experience

2025-06-10
Android 16: Faster Updates, Smoother Experience

Google today launched Android 16, initially for Pixel devices, with broader rollout to other phone brands later this year. This marks the earliest major Android release in recent years, prioritizing timely updates for users. Android 16 introduces the foundation for Material 3 Expressive design, enhancing accessibility and ease of use. Key features include streamlined notifications with live updates, providing real-time information for services like food delivery and ride-sharing without constantly checking apps. This initially supports compatible apps and integrates with Samsung's Now Bar and OPPO/OnePlus' Live Alerts.

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Google AI Ultra: Your VIP Pass to Cutting-Edge AI

2025-05-20
Google AI Ultra: Your VIP Pass to Cutting-Edge AI

Google unveils Google AI Ultra, a premium AI subscription service costing $249.99/month (50% off for the first three months). It offers unparalleled access to Google's most powerful AI models and premium features, including Gemini (with Deep Think 2.5 Pro), Flow (AI filmmaking tool), Whisk (text and image prompt visualization), NotebookLM, Gemini integration across Gmail, Docs, etc., Gemini in Chrome, Project Mariner task management, YouTube Premium, and 30TB of storage. Designed for filmmakers, developers, creative professionals, and anyone demanding the highest level of AI access.

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Google Unveils Breakthrough Generative Media Models

2025-05-20
Google Unveils Breakthrough Generative Media Models

Google today announced its newest generative media models, marking significant advancements in image, video, and music creation. Veo 3 and Imagen 4 produce breathtaking visuals, while Lyria 2 expands musical capabilities. Additionally, Flow, a new AI filmmaking tool, empowers creators with sophisticated control over characters, scenes, and styles, enabling cinematic storytelling. Developed with close collaboration from creative industries, these models and tools responsibly empower artists and creators to explore the potential of AI in their work.

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Material 3 Expressive: A More Expressive Android Experience

2025-05-13
Material 3 Expressive: A More Expressive Android Experience

Building upon the award-winning Material You design, Google introduces Material 3 Expressive, bringing a more personalized and expressive phone experience to Android users. It enhances everyday routines with smoother animations and more natural, springy effects. For instance, dismissing a notification subtly affects neighboring ones, coupled with satisfying haptic feedback. This makes Android feel more human, approachable, and grounded in user needs.

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Google Wallet Expands Digital ID Capabilities: More States and Countries Added

2025-05-01
Google Wallet Expands Digital ID Capabilities: More States and Countries Added

Google Wallet is rapidly expanding its digital identity features. Residents in several US states can now store government-issued digital IDs in Google Wallet and use them at DMVs in select states. Additionally, Google Wallet supports using ID passes created from US passports for TSA security at supported airports for domestic travel. Future use cases include Amazon account recovery, accessing online health services, and Uber profile verification. Fast, privacy-preserving age verification is implemented using Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) technology. Finally, Google Wallet is expanding to 50 more countries.

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NotebookLM Now Offers Multilingual Audio Summaries

2025-04-30
NotebookLM Now Offers Multilingual Audio Summaries

NotebookLM has updated its audio summarization feature, allowing users to select their preferred output language. Whether you upload a Portuguese documentary, a Spanish research paper, or an English study report, the system can generate an audio summary in your chosen language, facilitating the creation of multilingual content or learning materials. For instance, a teacher can share resources about the Amazon rainforest in various languages, and students can upload these and generate audio summaries in their native language, breaking down language barriers and making information more accessible.

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Wikimedia's Structured Data Lands on Kaggle!

2025-04-16
Wikimedia's Structured Data Lands on Kaggle!

The Wikimedia Foundation and Kaggle are collaborating to release a beta version of structured datasets from Wikipedia in both French and English. This data, specifically formatted for machine learning, is perfect for data science training and development. Kaggle, home to over 461,000 publicly accessible datasets, provides a rich resource for researchers, students, and machine learning practitioners. This collaboration ensures data quality and provenance, and we're excited to see what people build with it.

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Google Simplifies Search Domains: ccTLDs Are Going Away

2025-04-16
Google Simplifies Search Domains: ccTLDs Are Going Away

Google announced it will gradually phase out country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs, such as google.ng and google.com.br), redirecting all traffic to google.com. This is based on Google's improvements in providing localized search results over the years, making ccTLDs unnecessary. The change won't affect how Search works or Google's handling of national legal obligations; only the browser address bar will change. Users may need to re-enter some search preferences.

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Gemini's New Video Generation Model: Veo 2

2025-04-15
Gemini's New Video Generation Model: Veo 2

Gemini Advanced users can now generate and share videos using Veo 2, Google's state-of-the-art video generation model. Transform text prompts into dynamic videos, easily shareable to platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Veo 2, also accessible through Google Labs' Whisk, produces high-resolution, detailed videos with cinematic realism. Simply describe your scene, and let Gemini bring your vision to life.

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Open-Sourcing DolphinGemma: A New Tool for Cetacean Research

2025-04-14
Open-Sourcing DolphinGemma: A New Tool for Cetacean Research

This summer, the Wild Dolphin Project, Georgia Tech, and Google are open-sourcing DolphinGemma, an acoustic model trained on Atlantic spotted dolphin sounds. Its potential extends to studying other cetaceans; researchers can fine-tune it for different species' vocalizations. By providing this tool, researchers can analyze their acoustic datasets, accelerating pattern discovery and deepening our understanding of these intelligent mammals. This collaboration combines field research, engineering expertise, and cutting-edge technology, opening exciting possibilities for bridging the communication gap between humans and dolphins.

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AI Reimagines a Classic: The Wizard of Oz Hits the Sphere

2025-04-12
AI Reimagines a Classic: The Wizard of Oz Hits the Sphere

Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, and other companies have used AI to bring the 1939 classic film, The Wizard of Oz, to the colossal Sphere screen in Las Vegas in an unprecedented way. Utilizing AI models like Imagen, Veo, and Gemini, the team transformed the original black-and-white film into ultra-high-definition imagery, expanding scenes and creating an immersive experience. The project respected the original work, adding no new dialogue or music. This achievement showcases the advancements in AI technology while offering a fresh interpretation of a cinematic classic.

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Google Unveils Ironwood: A 7th-Gen TPU for the Inference Age

2025-04-09
Google Unveils Ironwood: A 7th-Gen TPU for the Inference Age

At Google Cloud Next '25, Google announced Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). This is Google's most powerful and scalable custom AI accelerator yet, designed specifically for inference. Ironwood marks a shift towards a proactive “age of inference,” where AI models generate insights and answers, not just data. Scaling up to 9,216 liquid-cooled chips interconnected via breakthrough ICI networking (nearly 10MW), Ironwood is a key component of Google Cloud's AI Hypercomputer architecture. Developers can leverage Google's Pathways software stack to easily harness the power of tens of thousands of Ironwood TPUs.

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Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental: Deep Research Just Got a Whole Lot Smarter

2025-04-09
Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental: Deep Research Just Got a Whole Lot Smarter

Gemini Advanced subscribers can now access Deep Research powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, deemed the world's most capable AI model by industry benchmarks and Chatbot Arena. This personal AI research assistant significantly improves every stage of the research process. In testing, raters preferred reports generated by Gemini 2.5 Pro over competitors by more than a 2:1 margin, citing improvements in analytical reasoning, information synthesis, and insightful report generation. Access detailed, easy-to-read reports on any topic across web, Android, and iOS, saving hours of work. Plus, try the new Audio Overviews feature for on-the-go listening. Learn more and try it now by selecting Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) and choosing 'Deep Research' in the prompt bar.

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Google's Gemini Robotics: A Slam Dunk on First Try

2025-04-02
Google's Gemini Robotics: A Slam Dunk on First Try

Google showcased its new Gemini Robotics model, enabling robots to perform complex tasks like successfully slam dunking a basketball on the first try, without prior training on the specific object or action. Built upon Gemini 2.0, the model is fine-tuned with robot-specific data, translating multimodal outputs (text, video, audio) into physical actions. Highly dexterous, interactive, and general, it adapts to new objects, environments, and instructions without further training. Google's ambition is to build embodied AI to power robots assisting with everyday tasks, eventually becoming as commonplace an AI interface as phones or computers.

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Google's Gemini 2.5: A Thinking AI Model Takes the Lead

2025-03-25
Google's Gemini 2.5: A Thinking AI Model Takes the Lead

Google unveiled Gemini 2.5, its most intelligent AI model yet. An experimental version, 2.5 Pro, achieves top ranking on LMArena, significantly outperforming competitors. Gemini 2.5's key innovation is its 'thinking' capabilities: it reasons before responding, leading to enhanced accuracy and performance. This reasoning extends beyond simple classification and prediction; it involves analyzing information, drawing logical conclusions, understanding context and nuance, and making informed decisions. Building upon prior work with reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought prompting, Gemini 2.5 combines an improved base model with advanced post-training. Google plans to integrate these thinking capabilities into all future models, enabling them to tackle more complex tasks and power more sophisticated, context-aware agents.

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