Google has announced a number of updates to the Gemini for Home experience that include various fixes and improvements to voice controls for your smart home, addressing quite a few widespread and niche complaints.
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Since launch, Gemini Live has primarily been a fullscreen experience, but Google is now rolling out a floating pill redesign on Android.
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Google is now beginning to roll out the “Past Chats” feature to free users of the Gemini app around the world.
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Google today announced Nano Banana 2 as its latest image model rolling out now to the Gemini app.
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Following the Gemini automation announcement today, Google is detailing how all this works under the hood on Android.
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Last October, Google announced Gemini Enterprise for business users, and the mobile apps are now available. Meanwhile, @Google Chat is now available in the Gemini app for Workspace users.
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At Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked, Google announced Scam Detection updates for calls and its Messages app.
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Besides Gemini automation, Google today announced the latest Circle to Search features for the Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10.
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At Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked, Google announced agentic automation capabilities for the Gemini app on the Galaxy S26, as well as the Pixel 10.
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Nano Banana might creep into Google Maps, according to a new insight report. The image generation model appears to be in testing in the Google Maps app, offering to reimagine “your favorite” places.
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Following music generation last week, the Gemini app is upgrading video generation with templates.
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NotebookLM has received a slew of updates in the past few days, headlined by Gemini 3.1 Pro and slide customizations.
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In November, Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro in preview, with Gemini 3 Flash following a month later. Google today announced Gemini 3.1 Pro “for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.”
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Following text, audio overviews, images, and video, the Gemini app’s latest output is music with Lyria 3.
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Gemini for Android has rolled out tweaks to the chat page that make sharing and the overflow menu more prominent actions.
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After introducing text-to-speech in August, Google Docs is now rolling out audio summaries.
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Sony officially released its flagship WF-1000XM6 earbuds with what appears to be a plethora of thoughtful touches, including 32-bit audio processing reserved for high-end earbuds.
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Deep Think is Gemini’s “specialized reasoning mode,” and Google today announced a “major upgrade” to let it “solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering.”
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When the Android desktop interface leaked last month, there was a Gemini icon in the status bar. We now know a bit more about that persistent access.
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After it first showed up for user a couple of weeks ago, Google has confirmed that its Gemini in Chrome browser features are now available to Chromebook owners, but only those on a Chromebook Plus model.
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Google has set out three tentpoles for Gemini: personal, proactive, and powerful. The company made big strides on the first pillar with Personal Intelligence, but there’s a very obvious blind spot with messaging.
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Following the web earlier this week, Gemini is giving the Tools menu on Android and iOS a redesign. There are also changes to My stuff in the side panel.
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At the Super Bowl — sorry, I mean “Big Game” — this Sunday, Google is airing an ad all about the Gemini app.
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As the Gemini app picks up more features, Google is improving organization of the Tools menu on the web with Experimental Labs.
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