Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: A child in an 80s Halloween costume stands on a suburban lawn at twilight, looking up at a ranch house with windows glowing in red, blue, yellow, and green forming the Google colors, surrounded by elaborate automated Halloween decorations, cinematic 80s film lighting with autumn leaves scattered on the grass.

Google just took another big step towards becoming ChatGPT for planet earth. I can’t overstate how important this is — geospatial AI commodified. Here’s what it can do: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1981566109863289028

Today, we’re starting the early access rollout of the Gemini for Home voice assistant in the U.S. You can either say “Hey Google” to your speaker or display to request specific help or answers, or talk naturally with Gemini Live by saying “Hey Google, let’s chat.” https://x.com/Google/status/1983246777215033718

Just posted Q3 earnings. We delivered our first-ever $100B quarter driven by double-digit growth across every major part of our business. (Five years ago, our quarterly revenue was at $50B🚀) Our full-stack approach to AI is driving real momentum and we’re shipping at speed. https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1983627221425156144

A new open-source physics engine just dropped… and it could change how robots learn. Newton, built by @nvidia with support from @GoogleDeepMind and Disney Research, is now part of The Linux Foundation. It’s designed to bring precise, GPU-powered physics to robotics and https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1982726852507521065

Claude, GPT-5, Gemini, and Kimi: “”write me a horror story done entirely in the dedications to six books (you can give me the title and author of each book as well)”” ChatGPT and Claude did well in different way. Kimi did the usual (sounds good but meaning falls apart). https://x.com/emollick/status/1982279778859151783

Available in public beta today on the Claude API and on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, with Amazon Bedrock coming soon. Docs here: https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1983597787305697745

13/ The Flutter Extension connects Gemini CLI to Dart MCP servers 📱 @FlutterDev https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1983653233177588214

11/ Chrome DevTools MCP empowers agents to debug performance issues. @ChromiumDev measures interactions for UI response fixes. https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1983653224927416642

A nice quality of life upgrade, you can now switch to your API key 🔑 automatically when vibe coding if you hit the UI limits (which are pretty generous overall) so you can keep on vibing : ) https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1981773224011784531

At least Gemini tried. https://x.com/emollick/status/1981583051470565697

Excited and honored to welcome @goodside to Google DeepMind and the AI Studio team as our first staff prompt engineer : )”” / X https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1981421092633006507

More good news for developer: we increased the implicit caching discount for Gemini 2.5 models to 90% (up from 75%). Enjoy : )”” / X https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1983564882482970925

🗃️ Context Caching Update! The Gemini API implicit caching now with 90% cost savings when your requests hit the cache! This means if you send a request to Gemini models with a common prefix as one of previous requests, it might be cached. No code changes needed. Price details https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1983565009574678679

3/ @GoogleAIStudio introduced brainstorming with Gemini in vibe code. It generates context-aware suggestions for features and API integrations during app building. 💡 https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1981855852844966045

5 practical tips for Context Engineering, which apply to Google DeepMind Gemini as well: 1⃣ Context Ordering Matters: Try to use “”append-only”” context, adding new information to the end. This maximizes cache hits reducing cost (4x) and latency. 2⃣ Manage Tools Statically: Avoid https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1982861526466707477

Introducing Annotate mode ✏️ while you vibe code in @GoogleAIStudio, mark up any UI with simple drawing tools and then have Gemini action them directly in the code! https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1981375555783045198

Introducing vibe coding in Google AI Studio https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-vibe-coding-in-google-ai-studio/

We’re introducing logs and datasets in @GoogleAIStudio ! 💫 Designed to help you debug applications and more easily create datasets for evaluations. – Enable per project with one click; no code changes. – Automatically track Gemini calls at no monetary cost. – Inspect full https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1984258488013340826

two Gemini API updates to help you build more efficiently: • Batch API: run large-scale jobs at a 50% discount (now with support for Nano Banana) • Context Caching: 90% discount (up from 75%) for cached input tokens on Gemini 2.5 models”” / X https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/1983564552408056179

A weird gap in the Google AI line-up is between the Gemini research tools and NotebookLM. Gemini lets you do Deep Research, but only a subset of other NotebookLM features, while NotebookLM won’t let you trigger a deep research report or do other types of AI interactions.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1983611024113856610

Full circle moment. Six years of work on 3D maps and VR media — seeds planted years ago turn into this. The Google team is absolutely crushing it. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1981786698117001534

🚨 NEW LABS EXPERIMENT 🚨 Introducing Pomelli, an experimental AI marketing tool designed to help you easily generate scalable, on-brand content to connect with your audience, faster. Just enter your website, and Pomelli will understand your unique business identity to build https://x.com/GoogleLabs/status/1983204018567426312

(this is not valid) DeepSeek is the new king now. It’s gaining 125% in just 9 days, making more than GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro lost combined. DeepSeek is just a side project of a hedge fund, confirmed. https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1982658436182712750

AI Discovers Novel Cancer Drug, or Did It? – by Dakara https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-discovers-novel-cancer-drug-or-did-it-gemma-27b

Good news for developer: our Batch API now support Nano Banana (aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) 🍌 with a 50% discount vs regular traffic. Enjoy :)”” / X https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1983280786976731219

Excited to partner with @RelianceJio to bring the best of Google AI to India. Eligible Jio users will receive our AI Pro plan at no extra cost for 18 months, including Gemini 2.5 Pro, 2TB of storage + our latest AI creation tools. Can’t wait to see what we’ll build together!”” / X https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1983922303424471541

New Episode: @parada_car88104 leads the robotics team at Google DeepMind. Carolina believes in a future with a broad, rich ecosystem of diverse robot types, where AI is smart enough to embody any robot. We discuss her journey, advancements in Gemini Robotics 1.5, https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1981716948393271749

🤖 From this week’s issue: Google introduced a significantly updated version of their filmmaking tool called Veo 3.1, which brings richer audio, more narrative control, and enhanced realism. https://x.com/dl_weekly/status/1983263132677013505

Google’s Veo 3.1 Fast ranks #2 in Image to Video with substantial improvements over Veo 3, but we do not see a measurable increase in Text to Video quality, with Veo 3 still ranking higher than Veo 3.1 Veo 3.1 is Google’s latest update to Veo 3, bringing substantial improvements https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1983938159839998249

.@ericzelikman & 7th Googler @gharik are raising $1b for an AI lab called Humans&. I’m told Eric’s paper STaR was an inspiration for OpenAI’s reasoning models, and that he was also one of the star AI researchers labs fought over. https://x.com/annatonger/status/1984318774208782467

Lots of scattered AI announcements in the past couple days that are pretty valuable for business use cases from Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic around memory, business context, and teamwork with AI – real issues. Now, I just need time to try some of them out myself.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1981580884307329260

Very nice blog post from Thinky (@_kevinlu et al) about on-policy distillation for LLMs — we published this idea back in 2023 and it is *publicly* known to be successfully applied to Gemma 2 & 3, and Qwen3-Thinking (and probably many closed frontier models)! The idea behind”” / X https://x.com/agarwl_/status/1982880080482140372

Everyone is going to be able to vibe code video games by the end of 2025″” / X https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1982222911231377696

It is interesting that building a consistent video using multiple generations turns out to be a much easier than consistent sound This is across 6 Veo 3.1 clips. You can see how details get lost (the shape of the background building) but visuals are generally good. Not sound. https://x.com/emollick/status/1981162893631770892

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