Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on October 27, a real-time world model with generated music, ambient sound and dialogue, plus typed edits mid-session. It is in tester preview and coming soon to Google AI Ultra in Project Genie.
Google Play now runs apps you build in Google AI Studio privately on your own Android phone, with no developer account. Here is who can use it, what it costs, what the apps cannot do, and how to build your first one.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon on October 13, 2026 for AI Ultra subscribers, rolling out to AI Pro. In our test it built a 3D product scene in 36 seconds for about 4.5 cents.
Google opened SynthID Detector to everyone on October 7. It flags media from Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao tools, misses every other generator, and 'not detected' proves less than you think. Here is how it compares and how to check your own work.
Google Labs launched Playground, a browser app that turns a typed description into a playable 2D or 3D game you can share by link. Free for US adults 18 and over, with more creation access on Google One.
Google released Nano Banana 2.1 on October 6, 2026 at half the Gemini API price of Nano Banana 2: $0.0336 per 1K image, $0.0504 per 2K, $0.0756 per 4K. Nano Banana 2 shuts down in the API on October 29, and three other changes can raise your bill.
Starting October 9, 2026, the free Gemini app will only run Flash-Lite, and the $4.99 AI Plus plan loses Pro. Here is what each Google AI plan keeps, what creators lose, and the cheapest way back to Flash.
Google made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar generally available on 24 September, a day after Meta showed Muse Realtime Avatar. The pricing pages and session docs tell a different story from the launch posts.
Google's new Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS lead Hume AI's Voice Design Benchmark. The launch price is promotional, and every tier doubles on 1 January 2027.
Google's Antigravity SDK now runs agents on local models: Gemma 4 26B A4B through LiteRT-LM, or any OpenAI-compatible server such as Ollama, LM Studio or vLLM. We read the SDK source and the demo code behind its 97.2% local-token headline.
Google released the Gemini desktop app for Windows on 10 September 2026, and it opens with Alt + Space. That is the same global hotkey OpenAI's ChatGPT Windows app has used for its companion window since launch.
Google Gemini Spark can now run multi-step workflows inside Google Photos, from search and editing to building albums and scheduling recurring highlight reels, for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US.
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, 2026, its most capable Flash-tier model for long-horizon software engineering and agents, at the same low price as 3.7 Flash.
Gemini can now search, scan, and inspect video segments across frames, audio, and transcripts in the API, cutting tokens up to 88 percent.
Google Pics is an AI image creator and editor built into Workspace and pics.new, powered by Nano Banana, with object-level editing.
Google has launched Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a production-ready video generation model that gives developers and creators frame-level control over AI video. Announced August 27, 2026, it extends scenes up to 40 seconds and renders at up to 4K.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that detects 85+ languages, removes filler words, and reaches a 2.6% word error rate.
Google shipped Antigravity IDE extensions on August 20, 2026, bringing its agentic coding tool into VS Code, Visual Studio 2026, JetBrains, and Zed.
Google released an embeddable Preferred Sources button for publishers on August 20, 2026. Readers click it to mark you as a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News.
Google Earth now generates AI images from any location using Nano Banana 2, free on the web globally as of July 30, 2026.
Google shipped model routing for Cloud API Gateway on August 4, 2026: one OpenAI-compatible endpoint that forwards each request to Gemini, Claude, or an OpenAI GPT model.
Google Gemini Spark can now drive Chrome to complete multi-step web tasks using your logged-in accounts, and expanded to 160-plus more countries on July 30, 2026.
Google DeepMind released Lyria 3.5 in Flow Music on July 29, 2026, upgrading vocals, lyrics, musicality, and tempo control. Here is what changed and how it compares to Suno and Lyria 3 Pro.
Google added a system-wide voice input mode to the Gemini Mac app: long-press Fn to dictate, edit, and generate images by voice in any window.