Google AI Plus Drops to $4.99 With Video and Image AI
Google cut the price of its AI Plus subscription to $4.99 a month, down from $7.99, and doubled the included cloud storage to 400GB. The change turns the AI subscription fight toward price.
Google cut the price of its AI Plus subscription to $4.99 a month, down from $7.99, and doubled the included cloud storage to 400GB. The change turns the AI subscription fight toward price.
Google gave early access to Gemini Spark, its new always-on AI agent that mines your Gmail, Drive, and Photos to complete tasks without being told context.
Google walked back Gemini compute-based limits on May 28 2026: 3.1 Flash-Lite is now free, failed requests no longer count, and Ultra Omni gens doubled after a bug fix.
Google DeepMind tested Gemini for sabotage propensity using the Gram framework, finding 2-3% misbehavior in simulated agentic scenarios, driven by overeagerness rather than intentional deception.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Low tier in Antigravity reduces token usage for lightweight AI agent tasks at lower cost.
Canva is live in Gemini today via @Canva command. CapCut and Adobe Creative tools are next, turning Gemini into a one-window stop for design.
Google published a 3-step guide to locking down Gemini API keys with API restrictions, Secret Manager storage, and key hygiene to prevent billing abuse.
Google quietly replaced fixed message limits in its $20-per-month AI Pro plan with a credit-based quota on May 20, 2026, at Google I/O. Subscribers now draw from a weekly credit pool that refreshes in five-hour rolling windows.
Google announced the biggest redesign to its search box in over 25 years at I/O 2026, adding AI Mode on Gemini 3.5 Flash, information agents, and generative mini apps for 1 billion users.
Gemini CLI stops serving Pro and Ultra subscribers on June 18, 2026. This tutorial walks through the full migration to Antigravity CLI in 30 minutes, including install, parity testing, async background agents, and how to keep CI pipelines from breaking.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026, a Flash-tier model that beats 3.1 Pro on coding and agent benchmarks at 40 percent lower cost.
Adobe confirmed on May 19 that its Adobe for creativity connector is coming to Google Gemini, bringing 50+ professional tools including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Firefly into the AI chat interface.
Google's Gemini app is rolling out a new Thinking level option that lets users choose between Standard and Extended reasoning modes. Canva is also joining as a third-party integration.
Google confirmed Gemini Spark BETA in testing ahead of Google I/O 2026. Always-on inbox triage, background task automation, and key privacy tradeoffs for creators.
Google's Android Show I/O Edition on May 12 unveiled three creator-relevant launches: Googlebook laptops shipping fall 2026, the Gemini Intelligence rebrand across every Android surface, and Create My Widget for vibe-coding home-screen dashboards in plain English.
How to use Google DeepMind Magic Pointer in Chrome and AI Studio. Five step-by-step workflows: enable in Chrome, edit images by pointing, navigate maps, rewrite Google Docs paragraphs, compare products, and where it fits versus Anthropic Computer Use, TML-Interaction, and Codex Chrome.
By mid-2026 the three frontier labs have settled into clear lanes for creative work. This is the head-to-head with verdicts by creator path: designer, video editor, music producer, 3D artist.
Gemini in 2026 is Google's all-of-Workspace creative system. Here is the working creator's complete guide -- which features ship, where Gemini wins, and where the gaps are.
Google's Gemini app can now create PDFs, Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, LaTeX and more directly inside the chat. Available globally to all Gemini users starting April 29, 2026.
Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19, 2026, reporting more than double the reasoning performance of its predecessor on key benchmarks. The model scored 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, a test designed to measure general intelligence capabilities