Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Minimalist Anthropic-style editorial illustration of a Google search bar drawn as a laboratory beaker in thick black hand-drawn lines, with abstract particles bubbling up from the search field, centered on warm off-white background, simple iconic design with slight wobble to strokes, flat shapes with subtle paper grain texture, 16:9 split-screen layout with warm tan right panel containing bold black text reading GOOGLE in large sans-serif letters.

A conversation with the Project Genie team on the path to launching the most powerful world model to date, where they expect to see value from these models in the short term, what comes next, and more : ) Featuring: @jparkerholder @shlomifruchter and @drivascos”” https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2018420009115017310

Fun to turn paintings into scenes I can walk around in using Genie 3: here are the works of Giorgio de Chirico, Munch, Turner, and the Bayeux Tapestry. I can move freely around the scenes, and, yes, they are a little weird, but its real-time dynamic image creation by the AI.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2017852070620025250

Giving the world’s first photograph, the View from the Window at Le Gras, from 1822, to Genie 3.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2018494862178316725

Much debate over Genie vs 3D engines. You can have both – the control of 3D scene graphs + the creativity of generative ai. Wrote this in 2024 breaking down the vision. The models are almost there. Now just imagine if Unreal / Unity productized this.”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2018119240612536587

The capabilities of Genie 3 are strange and surprising. Sometimes NPCs are animated & move around & react, but I can’t seem to control that happening. Sometimes objects have physical properties like stretching or tearing. The world in the world model peeks through at odd times.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2017805206419918883

Took an old photo of a WWI battlecruiser, gave it to Genie 3, and prompted it to let me play as a torpedo boat at the Battle of Jutland. Considering this is a research preview, astonishing how fast this has come. An AI dynamically generating the world with no game engine…”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2018198584508760108

Personal Intelligence: Connecting Gemini to Google apps https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/personal-intelligence/?_bhlid=06d4bd14c9983676596ec7f06fb96c7942470a8e

Boston Dynamics & Google DeepMind Form New AI Partnership to Bring Foundational Intelligence to Humanoid Robots | Boston Dynamics https://bostondynamics.com/blog/boston-dynamics-google-deepmind-form-new-ai-partnership/

Playing as Godot, finally arriving. Just as Beckett intended, thanks to AI.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2018213227503534572

Feb is the month of AI shipping, enjoy it : )”” https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2018559152155443465

Increasingly, the big labs need their apps to come with good models and good harnesses. The most common app is the chatbot. The Big 3 all have good models and good chatbot apps, but Gemini lacks a good harness. IDEs/CLIs are the new battleground, Knowledge work apps are next.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2018765266222567467

officially giving up my “PM” title, we are all members of the technical staff now, time to embrace it”” https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2018107123599548770

Upcoming Gemini for Google TV features https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/google-tv/ces-2026/

I tested Google’s world model Genie 3… Then DeepMind told me everything 00:00 – Intro & Authoring Workflow 00:27 – Genie 3 Playtesting & Demos 05:33 – Interview w/ Google DeepMind (Genie 3 co-lead @jparkerholder and Sr. PM Diego Rivas) 06:54 – Wildest emergent behaviors”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2018487746508018051

Google Workspace Updates: Generate podcast-style audio lessons in Google Classroom using Gemini https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/01/audio-lessons-classroom-gemini.html

Gmail launches AI features like AI Overviews and more, made possible by Gemini 3 https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gmail/gmail-is-entering-the-gemini-era/

Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager’s Death – The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/technology/google-characterai-teenager-lawsuit.html

Google is testing a new image AI and it’s going to be its fastest model https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-is-testing-a-new-image-ai-and-its-going-to-be-its-fastest-model/

Google Big Sleep: Linux Vulnerabilities https://blog.gnoack.org/post/bigsleep-linux

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