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Google is rolling out advanced voice control to Gemini for macOS version 1.88, combining Gboard Rambler-style dictation with a screen-aware assistant that can summarize files, rewrite text, and generate images by voice. The feature, previewed at I/O 2026, activates via a long-press of the Fn key and requires Gemini reasoning to be enabled for the advanced capabilities.

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.