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Google's year in review: eight research breakthroughs in 2025

2025 brought a run of notable AI research breakthroughs across eight areas, led by models such as Gemini 3 and Gemma 3. Improvements in reasoning, multimodality and efficiency translated into new products and features across the company’s portfolio, with an emphasis on responsible development and collaboration as research addressed

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Wyoming guides AI data center growth as Bitcoin miners eye power

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed Executive Order 2026-03 titled “Data Centers the Wyoming Way,” setting guidance for data center and advanced computing development across the state. The order applies to state agencies that permit, review, regulate, support or help large data center projects, and asks them to support growth while

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Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

Access to Project Genie is rolling out to AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. (18+). The experimental research prototype lets users create, explore and remix interactive worlds using text prompts and images, and to navigate them in real time. Genie 3 is a world model that generates the path

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Microsoft's premium Copilot agents were confidently wrong

Microsoft is spending an insane amount of money on its AI features, building data centers and licensing large language models, with a goal to turn Windows and Microsoft 365 into an "agentic OS" that handles memos, presentations, meetings and routine tasks. Developers seem to be generally happy with

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How to use ChatGPT: a beginner's guide to OpenAI's chatbot

It will be four years this fall since ChatGPT launched, and the tool has grown well beyond the simple “chatbot” label. People now use it to debug code, create presentations, generate images, shop, plan trips and handle a wide range of writing and research tasks. Features such as projects, memory

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Martin Scorsese accused of 'throwing artists under bus' with AI storyboards

Martin Scorsese has invested in an AI company and is using the technology to create storyboards, prompting backlash from colleagues. He was appointed in 2025 as a partner and adviser to Black Forest Labs, a German-based venture that specialises in text-to-image generative AI. Scorsese said in a statement to the

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Wyoming Issues Executive Order to Guide AI Data Center Development

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed an executive order establishing a framework for developing data centers and advanced computing facilities, underscoring the state’s push to attract AI infrastructure investment as demand for computing power accelerates. Published Wednesday under the title "Data Centers the Wyoming Way," the order directs

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GenAI Used in Development of Tomb Raider Remake, Steam Page Reveals

Crystal Dynamics unveiled a new trailer for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis during PlayStation’s State of Play, showcasing an Unreal Engine 5 overhaul. The game’s Steam page, however, includes a disclosure saying generative AI tools were used early in development. The disclosure reads: "AI-assisted tools were used

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The management issues that arise with vibe coding

After decades of upending industries with their coding, software engineers are now the ones on the defensive. Developers saw their roles change drastically overnight after coding agents improved significantly late last year. Some are more productive than ever with AI copilots; others are learning soft skills they view as more

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Gemini 3 Deep Think upgraded for science, research and engineering

Gemini 3 Deep Think has been updated to tackle modern challenges across science, research and engineering. The specialized reasoning mode is available in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers, and select researchers, engineers and enterprises can express interest in early access to test it via the Gemini API.

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Gemini adds Lyria 3 for custom music generation

Lyria 3, the latest generative music model, is rolling out in beta in the Gemini app. Describe an idea or upload a photo — for example, 'a comical R&B slow jam about a sock finding their match' — and in seconds Gemini will translate it into a high-quality,

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Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks

Gemini 3.1 Pro is rolling out across consumer and developer products, bringing an upgraded core intelligence to the Gemini API, Vertex AI, the Gemini app and NotebookLM. Developers can access 3.1 Pro in preview via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio, Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity and Android

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Dreams of Violets: an AI-made drama about Iran that cost $2,000

Next week Dreams of Violets, a 75-minute drama about the brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters in Iran in January, will premiere at the Tribeca film festival in New York. Based on journalism, video footage and eyewitness accounts, its Iranian-British director Ash Koosha says, "I would say 80% of it

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Nano Banana 2 combines Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

Nano Banana 2 is a new image model that merges Nano Banana Pro’s advanced capabilities with Gemini Flash speed. It aims to make high-quality image generation and rapid editing available with faster iteration. The model brings advanced world knowledge grounded in web search, precise text rendering and translation, and

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Humanoid Robots Remain Years Away From Replacing Human Workers

Modern artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots are impressive but remain years from replacing humans because they cannot yet adapt to changing conditions. Last month, AI robotics company Figure showcased its humanoid robots performing basic tasks such as cleaning a room, and a group of its robots working for nine days straight

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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: fast, low-cost model for high-volume workloads

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is now available in preview to developers via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and to enterprises via Vertex AI. Built for high-volume developer workloads at scale, it is the fastest and most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 series. Priced at $0.25 per

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Jensen Huang says AI agents will run your PC

In a Q&A at Computex 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explained why the company is moving into the laptop market with its SoC chip, RTX Spark. He asked, "The real question is, can we make a contribution? If we can't make a contribution, and it&

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Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

A new paper, "Measuring Progress Toward AGI: A Cognitive Taxonomy," presents a framework that draws on cognitive science to assess AI systems' general intelligence and to provide empirical tools for tracking progress toward AGI. The taxonomy identifies ten cognitive abilities believed to be important for general intelligence:

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Martin Scorsese Embraces Generative A.I. for Storyboarding

Artificial intelligence, long a flashpoint in Hollywood, is increasingly being adopted for specific creative uses. In recent years figures from Ben Affleck to Val Kilmer, the creators of South Park and Steven Soderbergh have signaled openness to generative A.I., and now Martin Scorsese has joined them by endorsing the

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Claude Opus 4.8 outperforms 4.7 but a legal prompt exposed an error

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, billed as more honest with better judgment, was put through a 10-prompt honesty test comparing it directly with Opus 4.7. The tester used multiple AIs—Codex, ChatGPT, Gemini and a second Opus 4.8—to build the suite and to cross-check results

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Four RTX Spark laptops to watch, including Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra

Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, a new Arm-based CPU for consumer laptops that will appear in machines from HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Microsoft, MSI and Dell, with some models arriving as early as this fall. The company, in partnership with Microsoft, framed the chip as a reinvention of the PC for

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Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is the latest high-quality audio and voice model built for real-time dialogue. Developers can access it in preview via the Gemini Live API in AI Studio, enterprises through Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, and everyone via Search Live and Gemini Live, which now operate in

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Microsoft unveils seven new AI models including first reasoning model

Microsoft opened its Build developer keynote by announcing seven new AI models, highlighted by MAI-Thinking-1, the lab's first reasoning model. CEO Mustafa Suleyman framed the rollout with the lab's "humanist superintelligence" language as he introduced the lineup. MAI-Thinking-1 was trained on "enterprise-grade, clean

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Trump signs narrower AI executive order requiring 30-day voluntary reviews

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to give the government a chance to review powerful AI models before they are released. The order asks certain AI companies to voluntarily submit their new models to the government for testing or evaluation 30 days before releasing the products

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Gemma 4: compact, open models tuned for advanced reasoning and edge use

Gemma 4 is a new family of open models designed for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, delivering high intelligence-per-parameter and released under an Apache 2.0 license. Built from the same research foundation as Gemini 3, the models complement proprietary offerings and follow strong community uptake—developers have downloaded Gemma