Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that the company's next-generation AI model, Gemini 3.0, will launch before the end of 2025, generating significant anticipation across the tech industry–particularly as Google's Gemini app has reached only 650 million monthly active users, whilst OpenAI's ChatGPT
In 2025, Google has taken its energy strategy to a new level by investing in fusion energy startups that could one day power the immense energy demands of AI systems. The company partnered with Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which raised over 1.8 billion USD in 2021 and is now
US publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google over its AI summary feature (AI Overviews), claiming the tool has caused a significant drop in website traffic. According to the complaint, since the feature was launched in May 2024, organic traffic to news outlets has declined by an average of 20–
Google’s DolphinGemma model, built with nearly 400 million parameters, is designed to study dolphin vocalisations using decades of recordings collected by Georgia Tech and the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP). Since 1985, WDP has compiled extensive audio and behavioural data on Atlantic spotted dolphins, enabling the model to uncover structural
Google announced on 21 August 2025 that its AI Mode search feature, previously available only in the United States, the United Kingdom and India, is now being rolled out to 180 additional countries and territories in English. The company also plans to extend the feature to more languages and regions
An advanced version of Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieved gold-medal level performance at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, which took place on 4 September in Baku, Azerbaijan. The ICPC is the world's oldest, largest and most prestigious programming competition at university level, where
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
