Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: A 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder with elegant racing stripes in Google’s signature blue, red, yellow, and green colors flowing across its polished body, positioned in a bright white studio with soft overhead lighting and subtle chrome details on the grille resembling a search interface, surrounded by floating translucent holographic search suggestion bubbles in Google colors, cinematic automotive photography with shallow depth of field and premium reflections.

Over 1.3 quadrillion tokens a month across Google, so much progress : ) so much more to go! https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1976359039581012127

GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro just achieved gold medal performance in the International Olympiad of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA). AI is now world class at cutting edge physics. https://x.com/deedydas/status/1977029236390285608

I don’t think people have updated enough on the capability gain in LLMs, which (despite being bad at math a year ago) now dominate hard STEM contests: The International Math Olympiad, the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics, International Informatics Olympiad… https://x.com/emollick/status/1977460160197956089

We’re announcing a research collaboration with @CFS_energy, one of the world’s leading nuclear fusion companies. Together, we’re helping speed up the development of clean, safe, limitless fusion power with AI. ⚛️ https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1978808994811588666

Veo 3.1 just dropped – Google listened and added audio everywhere it was missing. You can also insert objects into video and (soon) remove them too. Flow is quickly becoming less of a labs demo, and more of a creation tool. API available immediately; so expect to see it in your https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1978497357760311500

Exclusive: First real samples of Veo 3.1 generated videos https://www.testingcatalog.com/first-real-samples-of-veo-3-1-generated-videos/#google_vignette

The Claude app is now a surprisingly good personal assistant. For whatever reason, Sonnet 4.5 is much better at working with Gmail/Google Calendar than other AI, even though most other models can access your email, they seem to do minimal work while Claude goes much deeper/wider”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1978101986357662156

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Native Audio Thinking is the new leading Speech to Speech model per our Artificial Analysis Big Bench Audio benchmark The new model achieves a score of 92% on Big Bench Audio, the highest result recorded by Artificial Analysis to date. This not only places it https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1977720537519636756

We’re rolling out an upgrade to @NotebookLM’s Video Overviews: New visuals powered by Gemini’s image generation model, Nano Banana. Plus, we’re introducing a new “”Brief”” format for quick summaries.”” / X https://x.com/Google/status/1977769195187126396

Introducing the first-ever Google Agents Development Kit (ADK) Community Call. Come meet the team, learn about our AI Agents roadmap and ask any question you may have. Happening next Wednesday at 9:30-10:30am PT (link below) https://x.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1976334618715619573

The Claude Gmail & Google calendar plugins now work surprisingly well since Sonnet 4.5 came out. If you ask for a briefing and prep for tomorrow for example, it not only pulls up your events, but cross-references them with your email history & web search to give good insights.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1976468892525695376

Introducing NotebookLM for arXiv papers 🚀 Transform dense AI research into an engaging conversation With context across thousands of related papers, it captures motivations, draws connections to SOTA, and explains key insights like a professor who’s read the entire field https://x.com/askalphaxiv/status/1978466642146545838

New Usage and Quota Dashboard in @GoogleAIStudio. Better understand your Gemini API usage & rate limits from AI Studio without needing to navigate to the complexity of the Cloud Console. – View usage and progress towards rate limits for 3 key metrics (RPM, TPM, RPD). – View and https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1977788538943848639

Tesla. DeepMind. Figure. Skild just raised $300M. All racing to build one giant AI brain for every robot. It’s a trillion-dollar mistake. The future of robotics won’t be built like GPT… It’ll be built like Lego. 👇 🧵 https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1977360311419056339

brand new rate limit dashboard 📈 understand your Gemini API usage without having to leave AI Studio, filter down to charts, and easily explore rate limits for all models https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/1977786328638013512

Another great win for AI agent interoperability. Box is partnering with Google to make Box AI Agents accessible via Google Gemini Enterprise, so you can easily work with your enterprise content from anywhere. This is why the future of AI looks like. https://x.com/levie/status/1976360528256852130

meet the new playground experience in AI Studio a unified surface to access the latest Chat, GenMedia and Live models all in one place https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/1978861583078961263

New AI Studio home page just dropped, see what is new, see what is possible, and see what is to come : ) https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1978138639776338126

We just shipped a totally redesign rate limit and usage page in AI Studio 📈. This update makes it 10x easier to see your actual project rate limits in realtime, broken down by model and feature. Such a great QOL win and highly requested feature : ) https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1977788764174070229

We just shipped a new model search 🔍 in the AI Studio to make it easier to find what you are looking for. This has been super helpful to me since we shipped 4 new models in the last 2 weeks, with more coming soon! https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1976322847934214229

Announcing the completely reimagined vLLM TPU! In collaboration with @Google, we’ve launched a new high-performance TPU backend unifying @PyTorch and JAX under a single lowering path for amazing performance and flexibility. 🚀 What’s New? – JAX + Pytorch: Run PyTorch models on https://x.com/vllm_project/status/1978855648176853100

New massive update Google TPUs Inference for open Models, like Gemma! `tpu-inference` isa new @vllm_project backend that delivers up to 5x performance gains over previous prototypes while supporting both frameworks via a single lowering path. – 🤝 Unifies PyTorch and JAX under https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1978889178067743210

Beautiful work from @sundarpichai @demishassabis and team with open weights on HF: https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1978613819451551780

Nano Banana is now live in Search, so you can use Lens & AI Mode to instantly transform photos with our latest image editing model. Here’s a guide to get you started: 1. Open Lens in the Google app for Android and iOS. 2. Tap the new Create mode — look for the yellow banana 🍌 https://x.com/Google/status/1978857184566837735

meet the new homepage your command center to get started fast, discover what’s new, and explore everything Google AI Studio has to offer https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/1978138461514166742

Google AI Studio has a new home page ⚡ The time to build is now 👉 https://x.com/osanseviero/status/1978142950098903472

Finding time to meet just got easier with “Help me schedule,” a new feature in Gmail. When you’re responding to an email about finding a time to meet, Gmail now shows a “Help me schedule” button in the toolbar. Select it, and Gemini suggests meeting times based on your https://x.com/Google/status/1978562467136467283

Google will let Gemini schedule meetings for you in Gmail – Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/10/gemini-can-now-help-schedule-meetings-in-gmail/

Stay one step ahead with Magic Cue on Pixel 10. https://x.com/Google/status/1978588672233517523

Google’s Gemma AI model helps discover new potential cancer therapy pathway https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/

Using AI to identify genetic variants in tumors with DeepSomatic https://research.google/blog/using-ai-to-identify-genetic-variants-in-tumors-with-deepsomatic/

Congrats to the team from Google and Yale on the release of C2S-ScaleGemma weights today! Building on some of our graph learning expertise, I’m impressed by how far we’ve come with advancing both science & math with foundation models, and look forward to more!”” / X https://x.com/mirrokni/status/1978640091292553509

An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with @Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells.  With more preclinical and clinical tests,”” / X https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1978507110477332582

Introducing… Cell2Sentence Scale 27B🤏 Based on Gemma, it’s an open model that generated hypotheses about cancer cellular behavior. In collaboration with Yale, we confirmed the predictions with experimental validation in living cells Super excited about this one 🤯”” / X https://x.com/osanseviero/status/1978508266939281804

Google officially starts selling TPUs to external customers and competes directly with Nvidia now”” / X https://x.com/zephyr_z9/status/1978835094216343820

This work is incredibly close to my heart. So grateful to our team @GoogleDeepMind @GoogleResearch & @Yale collaborators. It’s been a hard road and a hard-won milestone, and this is just the beginning. The path from a finding like this to the clinic is very long, requiring”” / X https://x.com/AziziShekoofeh/status/1978601041814777914

“An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with @Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells.  With more preclinical and clinical tests,” / X
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As AI capabilities accelerate, so do the complexities of cyber threats. Google is committed to building a secure AI future. Our Gemini models use a “”defense-in-depth”” approach as we work to strengthen our defenses against evolving risks. Learn more: https://x.com/googlepubpolicy/status/1978163414498185578

Veo 3.1 is now LIVE in LTX Studio. Improved video quality, sharper realism, enhanced audio, and full Keyframe support. See what’s new with practical examples below 👇 https://x.com/LTXStudio/status/1978827563926716704

Introducing Veo 3.1 and Veo 3.1 Fast, our latest state of the art video models with: – richer native audio – better cinematic styles – reference to video – transitions between frames – video extensions https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1978492626371289108

Exciting update to Veo with better control, consistency and more granular control over your final scene with enhanced realism. Available on Flow, Gemini App, AI Studio and Vertex AI!”” / X https://x.com/koraykv/status/1978527237663068389

Veo 3.1, same prompt, also best of 4. You can see real (but somewhat incremental) improvements here, including more of a sense of physicality & better reflections. Not perfect, though, the otter is holding the phone wrong. https://x.com/emollick/status/1978465589233328256

Introducing our 2025 US GP Livery 🤩✨ #McLaren | @geminiapp https://x.com/McLarenF1/status/1978566601495433588

Bringing new Veo 3.1 updates into Flow to edit AI video https://blog.google/technology/ai/veo-updates-flow/

The model + resources are now on HuggingFace and GitHub so researchers can keep building and experimenting. More details here:  https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1978507235610226931

Meta, Google, and Apple are in a silent war. The prize? The most detailed digital copy of you. Here’s my deep dive into the battle for your digital twin and what it means for identity, privacy, and proving you’re human. We covered: – Hollywood’s evolution from CGI disasters to https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1978159640648294853

🚀 vLLM just hit 60K GitHub stars! 🎉 From a small research idea to powering LLM inference everywhere — across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple, TPUs, and more — vLLM now supports almost all major text-generation models and native RL pipelines like TRL, Unsloth, Verl, and OpenRLHF. https://x.com/vllm_project/status/1977724334157463748

We’ve built a new experience for learning languages on Perplexity. Answers need to go beyond text to interactive experiences and cards embedded into the stream of tokens. Available on iOS and web. Coming soon to Android. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1978865088296542387

Learn any language on Perplexity. Practice words and basic terms, or use flashcards to learn and memorize more advanced phrases. Available now on iOS and web. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1978859991152165125

Veo 3.1 is now live in Synthesia! Available to all users (even freemium), ready to generate cinematic B-roll and assets for your next Synthesia video! Give it a try 🙌 @googlecloud https://x.com/synthesiaIO/status/1978836856419635561

We think you’re going to like these updates a bunch 🍌 Introducing six new visual styles for Video Overviews (powered by Nano Banana) and a shorter “”Brief”” option for quick insights. These will start rolling out to Pro users this week and to all users in the upcoming weeks. https://x.com/NotebookLM/status/1977790565983945199

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