Google Drops ‘Nano Banana Pro’ — Its Sharpest AI Image Generator Yet
It can draw on Google Search’s real-world data — for example, illustrating a recipe or visualising real-time weather.
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Google Launches Scholar Labs, Promising a Smarter Way to Explore Academic Research
The tool analyses user queries to identify underlying topics, relationships, and nuances—and then searches across Google Scholar to find highly relevant academic papers.
Google’s New AI IDE “Antigravity” Promises Autonomous Coding with Gemini 3, GPT-OSS
Antigravity is launching in public preview for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and supports Gemini 3 Pro, as well as Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-OSS.
Amazon Launches Private Bug Bounty Programme to Harden Nova Foundation Models
The invite-only initiative aims to engage security researchers and academic teams in identifying and resolving vulnerabilities in the company’s AI stack
Microsoft Expands Data Sovereignty for 365 Copilot: In-Country Processing to 15 Nations
Starting by the end of 2025, the service will allow customers in four countries—Australia, the United Kingdom, India and Japan—to have Copilot interactions processed locally.
Google Adds Booking and Ticketing Features to AI Mode in Search
Available to users in the U.S. via Search Labs, the update enables AI Mode to not only answer queries but also take action.
Google Wants to Run Data Centres in Space for Solar Power
The concept envisions constellations of solar-powered satellites equipped with Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), flying in tight formation in low Earth orbit to tap near-continuous sunlight and free-space optical links.