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Google DeepMind's multimodal video generation model that creates 10-second clips with native audio from text, images, or video inputs - and lets you refine results through conversation.
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Google DeepMind's multimodal video generation model that creates 10-second clips with native audio from text, images, or video inputs - and lets you refine results through conversation.

Google's Gemini Spark agent is now in beta on macOS with local file system access, MCP server support, and real-time topic monitoring - but only for $99/month AI Ultra subscribers.

Updated July 2026 Chatbot Arena Elo rankings from Arena.ai: 7M+ votes across 368 models, Claude Opus 4.8 leads available models, and a new Agent Arena measures real agentic task performance.

Google DeepMind's upcoming flagship model with a 2M-token context window and Deep Think reasoning, announced at Google I/O 2026 and expected in July.

Gemini 3.5 Pro missed its June launch window promised at Google I/O, slipping to July as four senior researchers departed for rivals.

Noam Shazeer, John Jumper, and two more Gemini engineers left Google DeepMind for OpenAI and Anthropic in a single week, sending Alphabet stock tumbling nearly 10% from its May peak.

Google DeepMind's $75M investment in A24 aims to build AI tools shaped by filmmakers rather than imposed on them, as studios race to stake their AI positions across Hollywood.

Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma generates 1,000+ tokens per second through parallel diffusion, trading 5-19 benchmark points against Gemma 4 for speed and unique bidirectional generation capabilities.

ElevenLabs Scribe v2 leads ASR at 2.2% WER after a price cut to $3.67/1000 min, Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-1.5 debuted at #3, and Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS now tops the naturalness leaderboard.

Yahoo Scout is the rare AI search engine that puts source links front and center - here's whether that philosophy holds up in practice.

June 2026 overall LLM rankings covering Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and the open-weight models catching up fast.

A Chinese cybercrime network sold $88/week phishing kits that used Google's own Gemini AI to generate fake sites impersonating banks, carriers, and government agencies at scale.