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Google/Gemini

Google, DeepMind, and Gemini developments.

AISep 2, 2026Google DeepMind

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

DeepMind's Gemini 3.8 post is a vendor scoreboard: same introductory price as 3.7, more tokens if you let it 'work harder,' and Cyber locked behind Fairwind.

AISep 2, 2026The Verge

Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI

Google hired YouTube's first 500-million-subscriber channel to take Gemini camping. This is not a research drop. It is a bid to make the model look useful to people who do not read model cards.

AISep 1, 2026The Verge

Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI

Google is waving hundreds of millions at studios for training rights and character licenses. Hollywood would be selling Google a legitimacy story it cannot buy from another model card.

AISep 1, 2026TechCrunch

Google’s Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more

Google's latest Android drop copies Apple on motion sickness and chat themes, then uses Gemini to justify the rest. Accessibility is the cover; distribution of Gemini is the point.

AISep 1, 2026Google AI Blog

Google’s August AI recap is a victory lap, not a news dump

Google's August recap is a victory lap: a cheaper Flash model, a billion Gemini users, and a student giveaway. The cadence and the price cut are the competitive moves.

AISep 1, 2026TechCrunch

Google’s answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design

Google Pics ships into Workspace as a prompt-first design layer. The product is not a Canva clone. It is a bet that most office graphics never needed a marketplace of human templates.

AISep 1, 2026Google DeepMind

Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini

Google gave Gemini the ability to decide what part of a video to watch. Up to 88 percent fewer tokens and 66 percent lower cost is the pitch; the real shift is video stopping being a fixed-rate stream.

AISep 1, 2026Google AI Blog

Try Google Pics: Easy image creation and editing in Google Workspace

Google Pics puts generative image editing inside Workspace, making prompt-driven visual production a native document workflow rather than a separate creative application.

AISep 1, 2026The Verge

Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI

The Verge’s read on Google Pics is a Workspace lock-in story: tap an object, describe the change, stay in Slides. The design tool is a feature. The switching cost is the point.

AIAug 31, 2026TechCrunch

The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok

The Pentagon is putting tailored versions of ChatGPT and Grok behind a secure portal, making commercial frontier models part of routine defense work without consumer data channels.

AIAug 27, 2026Google DeepMind

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control

Google’s video update is less about prettier generation than about giving developers edit-like controls over continuity, iteration and output quality.

AIAug 27, 2026Google AI Blog

3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search

Google is moving travel AI from recommendation toward transaction, adding price alerts, loyalty redemption and hotel checkout inside Search.