Google released detailed data in August 2025 on the energy consumption, carbon emissions, and water usage of its Gemini AI system. Making this one of the most comprehensive disclosures from a tech giant like Google about AI's environmental impact. The company applied a comprehensive methodology when calculating consumption
AI-based search engine Perplexity made an unsolicited offer on August 12, 2025, to purchase Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion in cash, a figure more than twenty-two times the total investment capital the company has raised to date. Perplexity promised to keep Chrome's underlying engine,
Google DeepMind released Gemini 2.5 Deep Think on August 1, 2025, the company's most advanced AI reasoning system capable of generating and evaluating multiple ideas simultaneously before selecting the best solution. This multi-agent system, first unveiled at Google I/O in May 2025, uses significantly more computational
Google DeepMind introduced Genie 3 on 5 August 2025, the first real-time interactive general-purpose world model capable of generating multi-minute 3D environments from text instructions. According to the research team, this technology represents a crucial step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) by providing unlimited simulation environments for training AI agents.
Hackers have uncovered a critical security flaw in Google Gemini AI, through which even a seemingly harmless calendar entry could be enough to take control of smart home systems. The vulnerability was disclosed in August 2025, and it became clear that attackers could bypass standard authentication processes and gain access
Officially released on June 26, 2025, Gemma 3n includes significant developments specifically targeting on-device AI operation. The multimodal model natively supports image, audio, video, and text inputs and is available in two sizes: E2B (5 billion parameters) and E4B (8 billion parameters), operating with just 2GB and 3GB of memory
Google unveiled an updated preview version of Gemini 2.5 Pro on 5th June, which achieved a 24-point Elo rating increase on the LMArena leaderboard, maintaining its leading position with 1470 points. On the WebDevArena leaderboard, it rose to 1443 points with a 35-point Elo increase, securing the top position.
The introduction of Google's AI Overviews in early 2025 has significantly reduced traffic to publisher websites, raising serious concerns about the sustainability of digital media companies. Users are increasingly less likely to click through to publishers' sites as they receive the information they seek directly on Google&
Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaGenome on 25 June 2025, an AI model capable of processing DNA sequences up to 1 million letters long and predicting thousands of molecular properties simultaneously. The model focuses on interpreting non-coding regions that comprise 98% of the human genome and play crucial roles in regulating gene
Google Introduces New AI Feature Providing Voice-Based Summaries of Search Results, Expanding the Search Labs Experimental Platform Google launched testing of Audio Overviews on its Search Labs platform on June 13, 2025, allowing users to listen to brief voice summaries of search results rather than reading them on screen. This
Google's AI Overviews search feature made a significant error regarding Thursday's plane crash, incorrectly identifying Airbus as responsible instead of Boeing, raising serious concerns about generative AI reliability. Google's AI Overviews feature, which debuted in 2024, made a significant error on June 12, 2025,
TikTok owner ByteDance unveiled Seedance 1.0, a new artificial intelligence model for video generation in June 2025, which according to independent tests outperforms rival systems including Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora. Based on the latest results from Artificial Analysis, an internationally renowned evaluation platform,
