Google finally revealed the origin of Nano Banana's codename.

Gemini’s Nano Banana image generator was one of Google’s most talked-about launches of 2025. Within a month of its August debut, the tool had been used to generate more than 5 billion images on the Gemini app. But why is it called Nano Banana?

Google is expanding access to its AI videomaking tool. Launched last May, Flow was initially only available to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but now, those with Business, Enterprise, and Education Workspace plans can access it, too.

Google’s Veo video AI made stunning leaps in fidelity in 2025, and Google isn’t stopping in 2026. The company has announced an update for Veo 3.1 that adds new capabilities when you provide the model with reference material,

Google says that if you upgrade, "your Google Photos data is used to infer your interests, relationships to people in your photos, and where you’ve been, including by associating your face with corresponding location data and timestamps.” And inferring intelligence from photos is a heavy focus within the example use cases Google has released.

Google researchers introduce ‘Internal RL,’ a technique that steers an models' hidden activations to solve long-horizon tasks.

Hachette and Cengage allege Google bypassed licensing to train Gemini, calling it “historic copyright infringement.”

Google updates medical AI offerings by releasing MedGemma 1.5 for imaging and MedASR for medical speech-to-text transcription.

Google has split the shared limit for Gemini's Thinking and Pro models and increased the daily quota for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.