Google shipped a quiet but high-impact update to the Gemini API this week: developers can now mix built-in Google tools — Search, Maps, and others — with their own custom functions in a single API call. Previously, combining these required multi-step orchestration that added latency and engineering complexity. The change is a

Google has quietly deployed Gemini as an autonomous intelligence analyst inside Google Threat Intelligence, specifically targeting the dark web. The traditional approach to dark web monitoring relies on static keyword rules — you tell the system what terms to watch for, and it alerts you when they appear. Gemini changes the

Just a month after Google DeepMind introduced Lyria 3 with 30-second clip generation, the team has moved decisively to full song territory. Lyria 3 Pro can generate three-minute tracks with genuine structural composition — intros that build, verses that develop, choruses that land, and bridges that modulate — rather than simply extending

One of the persistent frustrations with AI coding assistants is that they confidently use outdated APIs — the model was trained months ago, the library shipped a breaking change last week, and neither party in the conversation knows it. Google DeepMind has now shipped a direct solution to this problem in

A new report from The Information reveals that Apple's AI partnership with Google is considerably deeper than the companies have publicly acknowledged. Apple has been granted full access to Google's Gemini model inside its own data centers and is using a technique called "distillation"

Google has expanded Search Live — its real-time AI conversational search feature — from just two markets to over 200 countries and dozens of languages in a single sweeping announcement. Until Thursday, Search Live was limited to users in the United States and India. The global rollout, powered by the new Gemini

Google has rolled out a new Gemini feature that lets users import their full chat history, context, and personalized memory directly from rival AI platforms — including ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. The move is being read by industry observers as a direct attempt to lower the friction of switching