At MWC 2025, Google announced that Project Astra-powered live video and screen share capabilities in Gemini Live are rolling out “later this month.”
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Increasing Gemini app usage is said to be Google’s “biggest focus” in 2025, with the company recently buying podcast ads to drive downloads.
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Google Chat is getting a pair of updates with real-time Markdown formatting and more Gemini summaries.
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Pixel started the concept of “Feature Drops” at Google in December of 2019, with Android later starting something similar every season. Google Workspace is now the latest to get on the “feature drop” bandwagon.
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Following document upload and generating images of people, the latest Gemini Advanced to come to free users is “Saved Info.”
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At I/O 2024 last May, Demis Hassabis reiterated that DeepMind’s goal is “building AGI: Artificial general intelligence, a system that has human-level cognitive capabilities.” This week, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that “the final race to A.G.I. is afoot.”
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A pair of Chromebook updates today highlight their broad usage across personal and enterprise, starting with Roblox enhancements.
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I think Google may have shared the future of smart displays, or at least an evolution of the form factor, earlier this year at CES: Google TV.
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Google announced today that “document upload is now available to all Gemini users” using the web, Android, and iOS apps. This started rolling out last week.
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Earlier this month, Google started emailing Gemini Live users about an upgrade that makes “your conversations even more dynamic and engaging.” It’s rolling out now, and here’s how to check if you have the new Gemini Live update.
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Despite the long gap, I don’t think a Gemini speaker that modern Google releases in 2025 is too different from the 2019 Nest Mini (2nd-gen) or 2020 Nest Audio.
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Google is announcing a free version of Gemini Code Assist that lets developers “generate, explain and improve code.” All that’s needed is a personal Gmail account.
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Following Android in January, the Gemini app on iPhone has received a homescreen redesign that will auto-open the keyboard on launch.
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Google might have the existing “Hey Google” hotword co-exist with a new “Hey Gemini” hotword that launches Gemini Live.
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After rolling out document upload and analysis last week, Google is beginning to let free Gemini users generate images of people with Imagen 3.
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Following the consumer rollout, Gemini Deep Research is now coming to Google Workspace tiers that have Gemini Advanced.
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As previously announced, Google has removed the 1.5 family of models from the Gemini app following the launch of 2.0 Flash.
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Google is informing iOS users that it will be removing Gemini support from the main Google app as it pushes users over to the full Gemini app.
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In a newsletter (email) to Gemini Advanced subscribers today, Google teased what will be available in the coming months.
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As announced last month, the Google Home Gemini Extension is no longer in preview and widely available. This stable rollout took a few weeks.
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After introducing for paid Advanced subscribers last year, free Gemini users are starting to get the ability to upload and analyze files.
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Google today is rolling out a new Gemini app feature for Advanced subscribers that can recall and “reference past chats for more tailored help.”
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Following Talk Live about this, Gemini Live is getting a model update that will “make your conversations even more dynamic and engaging.”
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Earlier this month, Google launched Deep Research in Gemini for Android, and it’s now rolling out to the iPhone app if you’re a Gemini Advanced subscriber.
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