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Gemini 3.1 Pro Is Now Live Across API, Vertex AI, and NotebookLM

Gemini 3.1 Pro Is Now Live Across API, Vertex AI, and NotebookLM

Google has begun rolling out Gemini 3.1 Pro across the Gemini API, Vertex AI, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM. The new model is positioned as Google's go-to for complex, multi-step tasks that demand advanced reasoning — the kind of work where 3.0 Pro was already strong but

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

Gemini Crosses 750 Million Users — 2.4M Developers, 85B API Calls in January Alone

Gemini Crosses 750 Million Users — 2.4M Developers, 85B API Calls in January Alone

Google's Gemini platform has crossed 750 million monthly active users as of Q4 2025 — a staggering 107x increase from the roughly 7 million users it had in late 2023. The milestone was disclosed at Alphabet's Q4 earnings call and comes alongside a wave of March 2026

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

Google Kills Firebase Studio — Consolidates Agentic Dev into AI Studio & Antigravity

Google Kills Firebase Studio — Consolidates Agentic Dev into AI Studio & Antigravity

Less than a year after its April 2025 launch, Firebase Studio is getting the axe. Google announced that the product will shut down on March 22, 2027, with the company citing a desire to "simplify AI developer offerings" as the rationale. The lessons learned and technology built for

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

Google Unleashes Gemini AI Agents on the Dark Web — 10M Posts Analyzed Daily

Google Unleashes Gemini AI Agents on the Dark Web — 10M Posts Analyzed Daily

Google's Threat Intelligence platform has a new weapon: Gemini AI agents capable of processing up to 10 million dark web posts every single day. Debuted in public preview at RSA Conference 2026, the system doesn't just vacuum up raw threat data — it builds a detailed profile

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

Google AI Studio Gains Full-Stack Coding Agent "Antigravity" — Prompts Now Build Production Apps

Google AI Studio Gains Full-Stack Coding Agent "Antigravity" — Prompts Now Build Production Apps

Google has quietly turned AI Studio into something far more ambitious than a model playground. With the introduction of Antigravity — a new full-stack coding agent — developers can now go from a plain-text prompt to a fully deployed web application without ever leaving the browser. The agent handles everything: database setup

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

Google Testing Native Gemini App for Mac — First Standalone Desktop Client

Google is actively testing a native macOS Gemini app, sharing an early build with testers this week. The move directly closes a UX gap that has existed for over a year: both ChatGPT and Claude have standalone Mac apps, while Gemini users have been browser-only. No launch date has been

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

Hegseth Wants Pentagon to Drop Anthropic's Claude — But Military Users Are Resisting

Despite Pentagon leadership designating Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" following a dispute over AI safety guardrails, Pentagon staff, IT contractors, and former officials are resisting the order. They describe Claude as superior to available alternatives — with one contractor noting xAI's Grok "often produced inconsistent answers to

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

Xiaomi Launches Three MiMo-V2 AI Models — Trillion-Parameter Flagship, Multimodal, and TTS

Xiaomi Launches Three MiMo-V2 AI Models — Trillion-Parameter Flagship, Multimodal, and TTS

Xiaomi officially launched the MiMo-V2 family — three models in one shot: MiMo-V2-Pro (1 trillion total parameters, 42B active via MoE, 1M token context), MiMo-V2-Omni (multimodal agent model), and MiMo-TTS (expressive speech synthesis). MiMo-V2-Pro ranks 7th globally on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and 3rd on both PinchBench and ClawEval — trailing

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

Cursor Admits Its New Composer 2 Coding Model Was Built on Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5

Cursor's newly launched Composer 2 — marketed as the company's most capable coding model yet — turns out to be built on top of Kimi K2.5, an open-source model from Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI. Community developers spotted the underlying model ID before Cursor officially confirmed it.

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

OpenAI Acquires Astral — the Python Startup Behind uv, Ruff, and ty — and Folds It Into Codex

OpenAI Acquires Astral — the Python Startup Behind uv, Ruff, and ty — and Folds It Into Codex

OpenAI has agreed to acquire Astral, the open-source startup responsible for three tools that have quietly become foundational to modern Python development: uv (a Rust-based package manager clocking 126 million monthly downloads), Ruff (a Python linter and formatter with 179 million monthly downloads), and ty (a type checker at 19

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

OpenAI Acquires Astral to Bring Open Source Python Developer Tools to Codex — But Details Are Still Fuzzy

OpenAI Acquires Astral to Bring Open Source Python Developer Tools to Codex — But Details Are Still Fuzzy

The confirmation of OpenAI's Astral acquisition is real — but The New Stack raises the questions that engineering teams actually need answered before they can plan around it. What happens to tool governance now that Astral is inside a commercial AI company? Will uv and Ruff remain available under

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

OpenAI Is Planning a Desktop 'Superapp' That Merges ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas Browser

OpenAI Is Planning a Desktop 'Superapp' That Merges ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas Browser

OpenAI is consolidating its product lineup into a single desktop "superapp" that will merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas AI-powered browser under one roof, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Chief of Applications Fidji Simo confirmed the direction internally, telling staff: "when new bets

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

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