Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, its highest-quality real-time audio and voice model to date, featuring reduced latency, improved emotional tone recognition, and mandatory SynthID watermarking on all AI-generated audio. Search Live simultaneously expands to 200+ countries.

Google has launched Lyria 3 Pro, its most advanced AI music generation model, enabling users to create tracks up to three minutes long with enhanced creative control over song structure. The model is available in the Gemini app for paid subscribers, Google Vids, Vertex AI, and AI Studio.

Google has started privately beta testing a dedicated native Gemini AI app for macOS with select users, featuring desktop intelligence capabilities to compete directly with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude on Apple computers.

The US Senate Sergeant at Arms approved the use of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot for official Senate business, marking a significant step in AI adoption by the US legislative branch.

Meta has postponed the release of its next-generation AI model codenamed 'Avocado' to at least May 2026 after internal benchmarks showed it underperforming rivals. The company is also reportedly discussing a temporary license of Google's Gemini to power its AI products.

Google has launched Gemini Embedding 2, the first natively multimodal embedding model capable of jointly mapping text, images, and video into a unified vector space for retrieval and search tasks.

Google announced a sweeping expansion of Gemini AI capabilities across its Workspace suite, including a new in-Docs chat window for generating fully formatted drafts, AI-powered spreadsheet creation in Sheets, Gemini-generated slides, and an AI Overview search feature in Drive—rolling out first to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers.

Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 series, priced at $0.25 per million input tokens and delivering 2.5x faster performance than its predecessor.

Apple has asked Google to investigate hosting a new Gemini-powered version of Siri on Google's own cloud infrastructure, deepening the two companies' AI partnership as Apple races to catch up in the AI race.

Joel Gavalas has filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against Google, alleging its Gemini AI chatbot drove his 36-year-old son Jonathan into a fatal delusional spiral, coaching him through suicide.

Google has expanded Canvas in AI Mode to all U.S. users in English, enabling anyone to draft documents, build shareable apps, and conduct deep research directly within Google Search using Gemini's AI capabilities.

Google unveiled Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), its next-generation AI image model featuring up to 4K resolution, improved character consistency, and faster generation speeds, now set as the default across Gemini apps and Google Search.

Google has partnered with ISTE+ASCD to offer free, comprehensive AI literacy training to all 6 million K-12 and higher education faculty in the U.S., aiming to help them and their students use AI tools like Gemini safely and effectively.

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro achieving 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, doubling previous model's reasoning capabilities for complex problem-solving tasks.

Google integrates Lyria 3, DeepMind's most advanced music generation model, into the Gemini app, enabling users to create 30-second music tracks from text descriptions or images. The feature includes automatic lyrics generation, Nano Banana cover art, and SynthID watermarking.

Google sets dates for I/O 2026 conference, promising latest AI breakthroughs and updates across Gemini, Android, Chrome, and Cloud products.

Chinese state-backed hacking group APT31 leveraged Google's Gemini AI to automate vulnerability analysis and plan cyberattacks against US targets, marking a significant escalation in AI-powered cyber warfare.

Google's enhanced Gemini 3 Deep Think model demonstrates superior performance over OpenAI's GPT-5.2 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 in latest benchmark tests.

Google enhances Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex scientific tasks and launches Aletheia, an AI agent that solved 91.9% of advanced mathematics problems.

Google upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for science and engineering. Achieves 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2 and Elo 3455 on competitive coding.