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