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Google has updated Gemini Live to access past conversation history through Memory and Connected Apps. The feature, currently available in English in the US, allows the voice assistant to reference previous chats and information from YouTube, Workspace, Utilities, and image generation tools during conversations.

Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, internally codenamed "Nano Banana 2," an image generation and editing model with a 131K context window. The model is priced at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens.

Google has released Nano Banana Pro, an advanced image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro. The model supports 2K/4K output resolution, preserves identity across up to five subjects, and includes real-time Search grounding for context-rich visual synthesis.

Google is rolling out Android Bubbles support for the Gemini overlay, allowing users to minimize active conversations into a floating spark logo icon. The feature prevents chat loss when switching away from the overlay, similar to Gemini Live's floating waveform.

Google's upcoming Pixel Drop will bring Screen Reactions and Gemini Omni-powered features to Pixel phones, according to promotional videos discovered on Amazon. The update, overdue based on Google's typical quarterly schedule following March 2026's release, appears to coincide with Android 17's stable release.

Google is integrating Google Business Profile data into the Gemini app, giving business owners AI-powered review management, performance analytics, and profile updates. The integration includes Business notebooks for organizing business data and generating brand-matched content.

Apple executives revealed at WWDC that its most advanced AI model, AFM Cloud Pro, runs on Nvidia GPUs deployed in Google's cloud infrastructure while maintaining Apple's privacy guarantees. The company disclosed it uses Google's Gemini frontier models to refine its own custom models built for Apple Silicon.

Apple announced at WWDC 2026 that the rebuilt Siri runs on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model based on Google's Gemini technology, hosted on Google Cloud servers powered by Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs. The company unveiled a three-tier privacy architecture and five new Apple Foundation Models to handle queries across device, private cloud, and Google Cloud infrastructure.

Google lowered its AI Plus subscription from $8 to $5 per month and doubled included storage from 200GB to 400GB. The plan includes access to Gemini 3 Pro, Nano Banana Pro, Deep Research, and the newly announced Gemini Omni video generation model.

Apple's senior vice president Craig Federighi disclosed that iOS 27's Siri AI uses a family of third-generation Apple Foundation Models trained with outputs from Google's Gemini frontier models. The most capable model, AFM Cloud Pro, runs on Nvidia GPUs in Google's cloud infrastructure while maintaining Apple's Private Cloud Compute privacy architecture.

Google reduced its AI Plus subscription from $7.99 to $4.99 per month and doubled storage from 200GB to 400GB. The plan includes 2x higher Gemini usage limits with a 128,000 token context window, along with features like daily briefs and video generation.

Google upgraded NotebookLM to use Gemini 3.5 and its Antigravity coding tool, enabling code execution through a "secure cloud computer" with 100+ software skills. The system achieved a 78.2% win rate against the previous baseline in web research tasks and now exports to 10+ formats including PDF, XLSX, and PPTX.

Google is rolling out a new Contacts integration for the Gemini app. The feature, available in Personal Intelligence > Connected Apps, allows Gemini to find, add, edit, or delete contacts through natural language prompts.

Google launched AI Edge Gallery for macOS, allowing Mac users to run Google's Gemma models locally. The platform ships with five Gemma models, including the newly released Gemma 4 12B—a 12-billion-parameter multimodal model that handles text, vision, and audio while running on consumer laptops with 16GB of RAM.

Apple will process some Siri queries using Nvidia's Blackwell B200 data center GPUs deployed in Google Cloud, according to The Information. The company plans to use Nvidia's confidential compute feature to encrypt data during processing on the chips.

Three new models appeared on Hugging Face: Ideogram AI's FP8-quantized version of its Ideogram-4 image generation model and Google's Gemma-4-12B text models in both base and instruction-tuned variants. The releases mark continued expansion of model availability through Hugging Face's platform.

Google is rolling out Gemini Go, a streamlined version of its Gemini AI assistant designed for Android Go devices with 2GB of RAM or more. The update replaces Assistant Go and integrates into the Google Search app on entry-level Android phones.

Google has added two new voices to Gemini Live—Flare and Glow—replacing the previous Nova and Lyra options. The voice picker interface has been redesigned from a carousel to a list format, while voice descriptions have been removed entirely.

Google has expanded Gemini Live's Connected Apps integration on Android, adding support for 15 new services including YouTube Music, Spotify, Home controls, Flights, Hotels, Workspace, and Utilities. The update includes a redesigned floating interface that allows users to switch between text and voice conversations.

Google announced Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Spark at I/O 2026. Gemini 3.5 Flash now powers Google's AI Mode search, while Spark is a cloud-based autonomous agent that can monitor credit card statements, track emails, and interact with third-party services like OpenTable and Instacart.

Google announced Gemini Spark, a cloud-based AI agent that runs 24/7 across Gmail, Drive, and 30+ external partners, powered by the upcoming Gemini 3.5 Flash model. The company claims the new model is four times faster and costs less than half of competing frontier models, directly responding to OpenClaw's viral success since November 2025.

Google announced Gmail Live at IO 2026, a Gemini-powered conversational AI feature that allows users to ask natural language questions about their inbox instead of typing search terms. The voice-powered tool will roll out this summer exclusively to Google AI Ultra subscribers.

Google unveiled voice-based prompting for Docs, Keep, and Gmail at I/O 2026, powered by Gemini AI. The features enable document creation, note organization, and email search through spoken commands, launching this summer for Google AI Premium subscribers and Workspace business users.

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash today as the default model for its Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, with Gemini 3.5 Pro following next month. The company also introduced Gemini Omni, a new multimodal AI family capable of generating video from text, photos, video, and audio inputs.

Google announced Ask Play, a Gemini-powered chatbot overlay for the Play Store designed for app discovery. The company is also integrating Gemini app and game recommendations across Android and web, with plans to expand to 450,000 movie and TV show recommendations later this year.

Google has repositioned Antigravity 2.0 as a unified suite for agentic AI development, introducing parallel agent orchestration, a new CLI that replaces the Gemini CLI, an SDK for custom agents, and Managed Agents in the Gemini API. The company also launched a new $100/month AI Ultra tier with 5X the usage limits of the $20 Pro plan, alongside a dedicated Android app for AI Studio.

Google announced at I/O 2026 that AI Studio can now build native Android applications directly in the browser using Jetpack Compose and Kotlin. Separately, Android Studio's new Migration Assistant uses LLMs to automatically port iOS, React Native, and web apps to native Android, reducing weeks of manual work to hours.

YouTube is replacing keyword search with Gemini-powered conversational queries for Premium members over 18. The platform also integrates Gemini Omni, Google's latest generative model, into Shorts Remix to enable AI-assisted video recreations with creator consent controls.

Google has released Gemini Omni Flash, the first model in its new Gemini Omni family designed to generate video content from text, images, video, and audio inputs. The model is available now to AI Plus subscribers, with free access coming to YouTube Shorts and YouTube Create later this week.

Google announced Gmail Live, a voice-activated email search feature launching this summer for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US. The company also expanded its AI Inbox feature from AI Ultra to AI Plus and AI Pro tiers, adding task completion tracking and contextual draft responses.

Google announced information agents at I/O 2025, AI systems that run continuously in the background to track topics like stock prices, flight costs, and breaking news. The feature launches this summer for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S., expanding to additional markets later.

Google's new Gemini Intelligence features require 12GB of RAM, Gemini Nano v3 or higher, flagship chips, and 5 years of OS upgrades. The requirements exclude recent devices including the entire Pixel 9 series and Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7, which run Gemini Nano v2.

Google announced Gemini Intelligence at I/O 2026, a system-level AI layer that automates multi-step tasks across Android apps. Rolling out first to Samsung Galaxy and Pixel phones this summer, it enables the OS to understand screen context and execute complex workflows without manual app-switching.

Google has deployed a new update to Google Home that accelerates Gemini voice command processing, particularly for timers and alarms. The update extends Gemini's 'Ask Home' feature to voice commands, allowing users to query camera history and family member locations via smart speakers and displays.

Gmail for Android and iOS now includes AI Inbox as a dedicated tab in the bottom navigation bar, positioned between Gmail and Chat. Google also updated Help me write to pull context from Drive and Gmail, automatically inserting relevant information into drafts based on user prompts.

Google is adding an 'Expert Advice' section to AI Overviews and AI Mode that will display quotes from Reddit, forums, and social media above links to sources. The update also adds creator attribution showing usernames and community names, and will recommend in-depth articles at the end of AI responses.

Google is developing a Gemini agent for macOS that will control computers, organize files, and integrate with Google Workspace apps. Code analysis reveals features including file conversion to Google Sheets, folder organization, batch file renaming, and meeting follow-up automation.

Google has upgraded its Home smart assistant to Gemini 3.1, enabling users to combine multiple tasks in a single voice command. The update follows last month's improvements to natural language understanding and comes after reports of accuracy issues in the smart home platform.

Apple will allow iPhone users to select from multiple third-party AI models to power system features in iOS 27, launching later this year. The feature, called 'Extensions,' will integrate models from Google and Anthropic into Siri, Writing Tools, Image Playground, and other Apple Intelligence features.

Apple is planning to allow users to select their preferred AI model for Apple Intelligence features in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 this fall. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the company is internally testing integrations with Google and Anthropic's models, expanding beyond the currently available ChatGPT integration.

Google is rolling out a full redesign of its Gemini app that overhauls every aspect of the user interface. The update introduces a pill-shaped prompt box, colorful gradient backgrounds, and a unified bottom sheet for file uploads and tools.

Google is accelerating the rollout of Gemini features in Google Home to 16 countries across Europe and Asia-Pacific this week. The company is now clearing the early access queue daily, with users who opt-in immediately moving to the top of the list.

Google announced it will deploy Gemini AI to vehicles with Google built-in, replacing the current Google Assistant. General Motors confirmed 4 million vehicles from model year 2022 and newer across Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC brands will receive the update, with the rollout beginning in the U.S. with English-language support.

Google is bringing Gemini AI capabilities to Google TV, starting with Imagen 3 image generation and Veo video creation tools. The features launch first on Gemini-enabled TCL TVs in the U.S., with Google Photos getting AI-powered search and editing features.

Google is testing 'Ask YouTube,' an AI-powered conversational search interface that generates text summaries and organizes video results. The feature is currently available only to YouTube Premium subscribers in the US who are 18 or older.

Google released Gemini Flash Latest on April 27, 2026, a dynamic router that automatically redirects to the newest model in the Gemini Flash family. The model supports 1,048,576 token context window and includes reasoning capabilities.

Google announced Workspace Intelligence at Cloud Next 2026, integrating Gemini across its productivity suite. The system automates tasks including Google Sheets construction and data entry (claimed 9x faster than manual), document writing in Docs, and cross-app assistance drawing from Gmail, Calendar, Chat, and Drive.

Google announced its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next 2026, positioning it as a competitor to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Microsoft Foundry. The platform targets IT and technical teams specifically, with support for Google's Gemini models and Anthropic's full Claude lineup including the newly released Opus 4.7.

Google has expanded its Gemini AI notetaker beyond Google Meet to support in-person meetings, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. The feature, previously limited to alpha Android users for in-person meetings, generates summaries and action items in Google Docs from any meeting type.

Google is expanding its Gemini-powered 'Take Notes for me' feature beyond virtual meetings to in-person sessions via the Meet mobile app. The company also announced Drive 'Projects' for centralized file organization and Canvas for interactive Sheets visualizations at Cloud Next 2026.