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Gemini Flash Live Edges GPT-4 Realtime in Voice AI Race

Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Live beats GPT-4 Realtime 1.5 on Scale AI's Audio MultiChallenge and takes Search Live to 200+ countries - but it doesn't lead every benchmark.

Google Funds AI Kids Studio Weeks After YouTube's Slop Crackdown

Google invested $1 million in Animaj, an AI animation studio making YouTube kids content, just seven weeks after YouTube CEO Neal Mohan declared war on AI slop - with early access to Veo, Gemini, and Imagen.

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite as Gemini 3 Pro Dies

Google quietly launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview - the first Flash-Lite in the Gemini 3 series - while announcing Gemini 3 Pro will shut down March 9. Developers have six days to migrate.

Google Absorbs Its Robotics Moonshot Intrinsic - Physical AI Just Got a Corporate Home

Alphabet folds robotics software company Intrinsic into Google after five years as an independent moonshot, giving it access to Gemini models, DeepMind research, and Google Cloud - plus a Foxconn joint venture building AI-driven factories.

Google Launches Nano Banana 2 - Pro-Level Image Generation at Flash Speed, Free for Everyone

Google DeepMind's Nano Banana 2, built on Gemini 3.1 Flash, delivers Pro-quality image generation and editing at twice the speed and half the price, rolling out free to all Gemini users across 141 countries.

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)

Google DeepMind's natively multimodal image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3.1 Flash - Pro-level quality at Flash speed, free for all Gemini users.