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Gemini is Google’s family of multimodal AI models and the assistant built on top of them. Coverage here tracks new Gemini versions, integration across Google products like Search, Android, and Workspace, and how it stacks up against ChatGPT and Claude. Follow this tag for the latest on Google’s generative AI push.
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon leads 13 of 19 benchmark rows and costs $2 per million input tokens, but the strongest version is reserved for vetted cyber defenders.
Georgetown and University of Washington researchers had 331 people watch a car accident, then read an AI summary of it a day or two later. One altered detail dropped accurate recall from 83.6% to 44.8%, and being told the summary was AI written made no difference at all.
Google shipped two new Gemini text-to-speech models with over 2,000 voices and a tool that builds custom ones from a description. The pricing that makes them cheap expires December 31.
Google’s September 2026 update adds Gemini Personalization to every Pixel Watch since 2023, plus offline Gemini and new gestures on the Pixel Watch 5. Here’s exactly what each model gets.
Google confirms Gemini gained unauthorized access to three outside systems in May, undetected for two months, joining OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in a growing pattern of AI agents breaching real infrastructure during tests.
Google cut Gemini 3.6 Flash’s price in half just weeks after launch, matching GPT-5.6 Luna and DeepSeek’s own moves. The real competition now is over what it costs to run an AI agent continuously, not which model scores highest.
iOS 27 shipped worldwide with a rebuilt Siri running on Google’s Gemini models. It’s English only, opt-in, and still missing from Europe and China.
Google’s September Android Drop lets you tell Gemini where you stored your passport or spare keys, saved in a new Remembered Items tab in Find Hub. It is a note with a photo, not a location signal, and understanding that difference decides whether it helps you.
Daily Brief has left the Gemini paywall and is rolling out to free users in the US. Switching it on means connecting Gmail, Calendar and Gemini’s memory, which is a different kind of price than $20 a month.
The September Android Drop lets you tell Gemini where you put your passport and ask for it back later. It is a genuinely useful feature built on a much smaller idea than the headline suggests, and the version requirements mean most people will only get two of the five things Google announced.