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Google DeepMind's flagship thinking model with 1M-token context, 84% GPQA Diamond, and native multimodal understanding of text, images, audio, and video.
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Google DeepMind's flagship thinking model with 1M-token context, 84% GPQA Diamond, and native multimodal understanding of text, images, audio, and video.

Google unveiled three Android XR smart glasses form factors at I/O 2026, backed by Samsung, XREAL, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster as launch partners.

Google's next video model surfaced in the Gemini UI a week before I/O 2026, showing editing-first features including in-chat watermark removal and object swapping.

Bloomberg reports Google is in talks with SpaceX to launch its Project Suncatcher satellites - TPU-equipped spacecraft designed to run ML workloads in low Earth orbit.

Google's Threat Intelligence Group confirmed criminals used an AI model to discover and weaponize a zero-day 2FA bypass - the first documented case of AI-generated exploitation in a real attack campaign.

Updated May 2026: DeepSeek V4-Flash reasoning now $0.28/MTok output (8x cheaper than R1), o3-pro launched at $20/$80, Grok 4 retires May 15 - verified pricing across 11 models.

NIST's CAISI has signed pre-deployment evaluation agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, bringing the total number of frontier labs under US government review to five.

Claude Opus 4.7 scores 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified but costs $5/$25 per million tokens. These four models match or near-match its coding performance at a fraction of the price on OpenRouter.

Anthropic has committed $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years - the largest cloud contract in AI history - alongside a 3.5 GW TPU capacity deal with Google and Broadcom coming online in 2027.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB Gemini Nano model file on user devices with no consent prompt and re-downloads it if you delete it.

May 2026: Together AI adds Llama 4 and DeepSeek fine-tuning, Fireworks raised deployment prices $1/hr, and H100 rentals fell to under $2.40/hr.

Google's TPU 8i is a purpose-built inference chip with 10.1 FP4 PFLOPs, 288GB HBM3e at 8,601 GB/s, and a Boardfly topology that cuts collective latency 5x for agentic AI workloads.