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Google/Gemini

Google, DeepMind, and Gemini developments.

AINov 9, 2026The Verge

Apple’s $50 Intelligence Usage Packs extend access to some AI features

Apple is now selling $49.99 top-ups for AI features in Logic Pro, an honest admission that cloud AI costs real money and a preview of metered creativity.

AINov 8, 2026MarkTechPost

Google AI Releases Elephant-Goldfish Model Plugin for Spec-First Coding

Google shipped a process, not a model: coding agents must draft a spec and face zero-context reviewers before they write code — a real fix for slop, if isolation holds.

AINov 6, 2026TechCrunch

Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google

Google is buying the unfinished Wyoming campus Crusoe couldn’t keep on cost and schedule — and still writing a $17 billion build check while keeping Crusoe on another job in Texas.

AINov 5, 2026Ars Technica

Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable

Google clarifies its K–12 AI policy: schools can disable Gemini apps and even Search, but they still cannot get classic Search without AI Overviews and AI Mode.

AINov 5, 2026Google AI Blog

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash stretches native video to 15 seconds, adds multi-turn edits, tightens reference lock, and cuts price 30% to $0.07 per second at 720p.

AINov 4, 2026MarkTechPost

Google AI Research Releases Agile Deliberation Framework for Gray-Area Image Classifiers

Google Research open-sourced a human-in-the-loop way to turn fuzzy ideas like “healthy food” or clickbait into written policies that actually work as vision-model prompts — and beat zero-shot Gemini by about 10 F1 points.

AINov 4, 2026The Verge

Gemini for Home now plugs into AT&T’s smart security system

AT&T’s Connected Life security cameras can now ask Gemini what happened at home — natural-language video search and daily summaries — but only if you’re on the $29.99 professional monitoring plan.

AINov 4, 2026WIRED

Google Is Forcing AI Overviews in Classrooms. Schools Are Searching for a Way Out

Google will not let schools turn off AI Overviews without blocking Search itself — and educators who wanted kids to learn how to weigh sources just lost the off switch.

AINov 4, 2026TechCrunch

Schools can switch off Gemini but not AI in Google Search, and DuckDuckGo sees an opening

Google’s education policy lets schools disable Gemini, but keeping Search means keeping AI Overviews and AI Mode. DuckDuckGo is pitching a working opt-out to districts. The fight is over who decides when AI answers show up in a student’s workflow.

AINov 4, 2026WIRED

UK Officials Said AI Would Add £400 Billion to the Economy. That Figure Mainly Came From Google

For two years Britain sold AI to the public with a £400 billion number that came from a Google-commissioned report, and its own estimate was a fraction of that.

AINov 4, 2026The Verge

Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engine

Google says AI is making people search more than ever, but the money isn't following yet, and that gap is now the most important number in the company.

AINov 3, 2026The Verge

OpenAI says ChatGPT is catching up to Google in search

OpenAI says ChatGPT now handles a fifth of Google's search volume, and in the same breath says ads are working. That pairing tells us where AI search is headed.