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Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

Last year I deepfaked my kid’s stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. Google’s new anything…

I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me

It’s a beautiful, balmy afternoon at Dolores Park in San Francisco, and I’m singing a birthday song to a prehistoric din…

Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates

This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses Meta’s recent layoffs and what they’ve been hearing from employees about…

Google I/O, Gemini Spark, Antigravity

20th May 2026 It's hard to find much to write about Google I/O this year because I have a policy of not writing about an…

Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses

Google just wrapped its keynote address at its annual I/O developer event. The company showed off a swath of new agentic…

llm-gemini 0.32a0

19th May 2026 - Compatible with llm>=0.32a0 alpha - adds the ability to stream reasoning tokens. Recent articles - Datas…

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything 19th May 2026 Today at Google I/O, Google rel…

llm-gemini 0.32

19th May 2026 - New model gemini-3.5-flash for Gemini 3.5 Flash. See also my notes on Gemini 3.5 Flash, and the pelican …

Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery

Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery For centuries, the scientific method has been th…

Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited

Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited As generative media becomes more advanced and accessib…

Gemini 3.5 Flash might be fast enough for gen AI to make sense

At last year’s I/O event, Google was still talking about the 2.5 branch of Gemini, and what a difference a year makes. W…

Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose

18th May 2026 Sighting 7:51 AM – 8:13 AM — Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angele…

AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone

Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its la…

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Go…

Gemini’s latest updates are all about controlling your phone

It is, once again, Gemini season. Google is announcing a host of new Gemini features during its pre-I/O Android showcase…

Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026

Google’s I/O conference is next week, and we expect to hear a lot about the company’s AI endeavors. The company says the…

Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year

Google took its first swing at laptops with Chromebooks way back in 2011. These web-first laptops have seen success over…

Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare

Cramming for finals is bad enough without the platform you use to do your schoolwork suddenly shutting down. Unfortunate…

Chrome's 4GB AI model isn't new, but you're not wrong for being confused

All of Google’s products have been getting more AI features, including Chrome, which now offers split-screen Gemini chat…

How to Disable Google's Gemini in Chrome

If you use Google's Chrome browser for desktop, there's probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right n…

llm-gemini 0.31

7th May 2026 gemini-3.1-flash-lite is no longer a preview. Here's my write-up of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview model…

Google's Gemma 4 AI models get 3x speed boost by predicting future tokens

Google launched its Gemma 4 open models this spring, promising a new level of power and performance for local AI. Google…

Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single c…

Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls

Google launched its big AI-fueled redesign of Google Home late last year, and it has been adding features here and there…

Gemini is rolling out to cars with Google built-in

Google is preparing to update vehicles that have Google built-in with its Gemini AI assistant. This will be an upgrade f…

The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice

Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon. But to hear Google tell it, generative…

Google Search queries hit an ‘all time high’ last quarter

Google Search queries hit an “all time high” in the first quarter of 2026, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pich…

EU tells Google to open up AI on Android; Google says that's "unwarranted intervention"

In January, the European Commission began an initial investigation, known as a specification proceeding, into how Google…

5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice

I’ve used ChatGPT to help me build a budget before, and it was genuinely helpful. After I input my monthly salary as wel…

US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.”

The US is preparing to crack down on China’s allegedly “industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs’…

Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie

Like many medical school students, Sam was broke. The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got so…

Gemini Robotics ER-1.6 enhances reasoning to help robots navigate real-world tasks.

For robots to be truly helpful, they need to understand the physical world like we do. That’s why today we're introducin…

The latest AI news we announced in March 2026

The latest AI news we announced in March 2026 For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research…

Multimodality Embeddings Bilge Yücel DevRel Engineer Stefano Fiorucci AI/Software Engineer Multimodal Search with Gemini Embedding 2 in Haystack Build multimodal search systems in Haystack using Gemini Embedding 2 to embed text, images, video, audio, and PDFs in a shared vector space. March 10, 2026

Multimodal Search with Gemini Embedding 2 in Haystack Build multimodal search systems in Haystack using Gemini Embedding…

The latest AI news we announced in February

The latest AI news we announced in February For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, …

IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST

IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST ITBench HF Space ITBench HF Dataset MAST…

Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering

Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering Today, we’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep…

The latest AI news we announced in January

The latest AI news we announced in January For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, t…

In our latest podcast, hear how the “Smoke Jumpers” team brings Gemini to billions of people.

Bringing Gemini to billions of users requires a massive, coordinated infrastructure effort. In the latest episode of the…

The latest AI news we announced in December

The latest AI news we announced in December For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, …

Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 2025 has been a year of extraordinary progress in r…

Watch a podcast discussion about Gemini 3 and the future of Search.

The latest episode of the Google AI: Release Notes podcast looks at how we are integrating our most capable frontier mod…

Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed

Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed Today, we're expanding the Gemini 3 model family with the release …

TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?

TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games? Two core avenues exist to evaluate autonomous agents: either us…

FastRTC: The Real-Time Communication Library for Python

FastRTC: The Real-Time Communication Library for Python - OpenAI and Google released their live multimodal APIs for Chat…

Evaluating Audio Reasoning with Big Bench Audio

Evaluating Audio Reasoning with Big Bench Audio To support analysis of this, Artificial Analysis is releasing Big Bench …

Welcome Gemma 2 - Google’s new open LLM

Welcome Gemma 2 - Google’s new open LLM - Models on the Hub - Hugging Face Transformers integration - Integration with G…