Google Flow Music Reaches Believe and TuneCore Artists
Google partners with Believe and TuneCore to route Flow Music, its Lyria 3 Pro song studio, to indie artists. Ambassador program meets Google's product team weekly.
Gemini API File Search Goes Multimodal with Image Embeddings
Gemini File Search now indexes images natively via gemini-embedding-2. Step-by-step multimodal RAG workflow tutorial: when to use it, how to set it up, pricing math, and how it compares to Pinecone and Weaviate for visual retrieval.
Gemini in Google Docs Now Remembers Your Writing Preferences
Google rolled out persistent instruction support for Gemini in Google Docs on May 5, 2026, letting users set standing tone, style, and format directives that apply automatically across every session.
Gemini API Adds Webhooks for Veo, Batch, Long-Running Jobs
Gemini API webhooks let you build async Veo video pipelines without polling. Step-by-step workflow tutorial for video creators automating long-running batch jobs in 2026.
Gemini App Redesign Brings Image, Video, Music Together
Google's Gemini app is rolling out a major redesign that brings images, video, music, and canvas generation together in a single unified tools panel, already live for Mac users.
Gemini Generates PDFs, Excel, Slides Direct From Chat
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 Launches Ask YouTube AI Conversational Search
Google launched Ask YouTube on April 28, 2026, a conversational search beta that replaces keyword queries with natural-language questions and returns a mix of videos, Shorts, and AI summaries.
Google Adds Veo Video Upscaling on Vertex AI
Google added a standalone Veo upscaling capability to Vertex AI on April 23, alongside the enterprise rollout of Veo 3.1 Lite. The new tool sharpens any video to 1080p or 4K, regardless of whether the source was generated by Veo, another AI model, or a traditional.
Google Photos Auto Frame Now Corrects Perspective and Recomposes Shots with AI
Google Photos Auto Frame now uses AI to re-angle portrait photos after the fact, correcting wide-angle distortion and generating missing background areas using diffusion models.
Google Flow Music Launches: AI Song Studio Built on Lyria 3
Google launched Flow Music on April 18, 2026, rebranding ProducerAI into a standalone AI music studio powered by Lyria 3. Create full songs, AI music videos with Veo, and remix tracks with new Replace and Extend features -- free at flowmusic.app.
Avid Adds Gemini AI Agents to Media Composer for NAB 2026
Avid and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership on April 16, 2026, embedding Gemini and Vertex AI into Media Composer for agentic search, B-roll, and metadata workflows. Public demos run at NAB Show April 19 to 22.
Google Gemini Mac App Adds Image, Video, and Music Generation
Google launched a native Gemini app for Mac on April 16, 2026, bringing image, video, and music generation directly to the desktop for the first time.
Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Beats ElevenLabs in Quality Benchmarks
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS on April 15, 2026, a text-to-speech model that outperforms ElevenLabs v3 in quality benchmarks while offering a generous free tier.
Google Vids Adds AI Avatars With Veo 3.1 and Free Video
Google Vids now lets Workspace users create AI-directed avatars using Veo 3.1, generate custom soundtracks with Lyria 3, and produce up to 10 free video clips per month.
Gemma 4 Rewrites the Open Source AI Playbook
Google released Gemma 4, a family of four open multimodal models under Apache 2.0. The 31B dense model scores 89.2% on AIME 2026, quadrupling Gemma 3. For creators and developers building on open models, this changes everything.
Google Veo 3.1 Lite Cuts AI Video Costs in Half
Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, a cost-effective video generation model available now via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.
Google Lyria 3 Pro Generates 3-Minute AI Music Tracks
Google launched Lyria 3 Pro, an AI music generation model that creates tracks up to three minutes long with full song structure including intros, verses, and choruses.
Google Maps Adds Gemini AI and 3D Navigation
Google launched Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation on March 12, 2026, bringing Gemini AI to Google Maps for the first time. Ask Maps lets users ask complex conversational questions, and Immersive Navigation replaces flat 2D directions with photorealistic 3D views of the road ahead
Indie Artists Sue Google Over Lyria 3 AI Music Training
Independent musicians filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging Lyria 3 was trained on 44 million YouTube clips without permission.
Google Flow Merges Whisk, ImageFX, and Video into One AI Studio
Google merged three separate AI creative tools into one platform in March 2026. Flow now combines Whisk (mood boards and collages), ImageFX (text-to-image generation), and Flow's original video capabilities into a single workspace powered by Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana
Google Flow Merges Whisk, ImageFX, and Video Into One AI Creative Platform
Google just killed three products and replaced them with one. On February 25, 2026, the company merged Flow, Whisk, and ImageFX into a single creative workspace powered by Veo 3.1, Nano Banana, and Gemini
Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Doubles Reasoning Performance
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
Apple Confirms Gemini-Powered Siri Overhaul for iOS 26.4
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