Opinion For a sector at the heart of US economic growth, AI claims and counter-claims remain curiously hard to reconcile. Models are improving at the speed of light, AI firms claim, yet the message from the codeface remains that benefits are still more than balanced by the downsides. AI can make you a 10x coder,…
France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead. DINUM announced the swap last week during an interministerial seminar that saw several government agencies try to create momentum for development of sovereign technologies that reduce France’s dependence on non-European technology. A government statement about the seminar included a quote…
Apple and Samsung have both been strongly linked with plans for foldable phones in a boxy, wide aspect ratio, but it looks like another company will get there first. Huawei has just revealed the design of the Pura X Max, a new foldable it’s launching in China next week, and its passport-esque form factor is…
Introducing our National Partnerships for AI and collaboration in India We believe AI will be the most transformative technology in human history and that it should be deployed in ways that benefit all of humanity. This requires deep, strategic collaboration between frontier AI labs, governments, academia, and civil society. To fully realise AI’s potential, Google…
Who, Me? The best part of the working day is lunchtime, but The Register tries to start Mondays in a pleasant fashion by bringing you a new installment of “Who, Me?” – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your mistakes and detail your escapes. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Hugh”…
New audio verification capabilities All tracks generated in the Gemini app are embedded with SynthID, our imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content. We are also giving you more tools to help identify AI content, broadening our verification capabilities in the Gemini app to include audio, along with image and video. Simply upload a file…
What’s next Since releasing Gemini 3 Pro in November, your feedback and the pace of progress have driven these rapid improvements. We are releasing 3.1 Pro in preview today to validate these updates and continue to make further advancements in areas such as ambitious agentic workflows before we make it generally available soon. Starting today,…
In August of last year, our Gemini Image model, Nano Banana, became a viral sensation, redefining image generation and editing. Then in November, we released Nano Banana Pro, offering users advanced intelligence and studio-quality creative control. Today, we’re bringing the best of both worlds to users across Google. Introducing Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash…
Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model. Built for high-volume developer workloads at scale, 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers high quality for its price and model tier. Starting today, 3.1 Flash-Lite is rolling out in preview to developers via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and for enterprises…
Catalyzing breakthroughs in science By proving it could navigate the massive search space of a Go board, AlphaGo demonstrated the potential for AI to help us better understand the vast complexities of the physical world. We started by attempting to solve the protein folding problem, a 50-year grand challenge of predicting the 3D structure of…