Google: AI News Week Ending 05/29/2026

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Introducing Gemini Spark ✨ a 24/7 personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life. Set recurring tasks, teach it new skills and create complete workflows. #GoogleIO
https://x.com/Google/status/2057841803550683336

Google DeepMind’s Hassabis: AGI is 3 to 4 years away – Sherwood News
https://sherwood.news/tech/google-deepminds-hassabis-agi-is-3-to-4-years-away/

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’ I sat down with him to talk about what that means, curing every disease, and human meaning post-AGI: 0:00 Intro 0:45 What Demis is most excited about at I/O 1:46 Have AGI timelines shifted? 3:30
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2059307613485940950

Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/ex-google-apple-ai-researchers-want-to-make-ai-that-gets-smarter-as-you-use-it/#selection-1837.465-1837.597

Former Google and Apple researchers launch Trajectory to enhance AI feedback loops
https://cryptobriefing.com/trajectory-ai-startup-google-apple-researchers/

I think people don’t realize why Gemini Omni is different than other video AIs. It is fully multimodal, so it can edit video natively, too I took the famous “”train “” movie from 1896 & made it a bullet train, LEGO, added a time traveler, a centipede, muppets… (see reflections?)
https://x.com/emollick/status/2057874739817808223

Omni is pretty nuts. It is NOT seedance. Any input in/out. It’s more than nano banana for video – it’s quite literally industrial light & magic. Now effectively reduced to an insanely realistic AR filter that you can apply on demand to anyone’s footage.
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2057300479340695960

Google just turned Street View into a video game. The mother lode of ground level data — 280 billion real world panoramas, now playable in real time. Here’s everything you need to know in 7 mins: 00:00 Genie 3 Grounded In Reality 00:44 Real-time Demos! 03:48 The Bigger
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2057262850209419553

Project Genie 🤝 @GoogleMaps Street View You can now take real U.S. places and transform them into new, interactive worlds. 🌍
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2057842131142590512

BREAKING: Gemini 3.5 Flash by @GoogleDeepMind is 16th overall on Design Arena with an Elo of 1299. This is a 16 position jump from Gemini 3 Flash Preview, putting Gemini 3.5 Flash in the same performance band as Claude Opus 4.5 by @AnthropicAI and GPT-5.5 by @OpenAI. Congrats
https://x.com/Designarena/status/2057885688125968660

Cartesia’s Sonic-3.5 takes the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena Leaderboard, surpassing Inworld Realtime TTS 1.5 Max and Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Sonic-3.5 is the latest TTS model from @cartesia . It supports 42 languages, including 9 Indian languages, with
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2057878247782908109

Gave omni a 3d camera trajectory and asked it to generate gopro style pov footage
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2058593677094609228

Gemini Flash 3.5 is such a disappointing model. It’s intelligence and speed is awesome. Absolutely amazing. But it’s been trained to max evals, not to be helpful to humans. It goes off and does random crap “”for me”” rather than just doing what I asked.
https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/2057923197639840033

Google expands Gemini for Business with shareable Projects
https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-expands-gemini-for-business-with-shareable-projects/

It’s easy to forget just how quickly the size of the pie (AI Market) is expanding in nearly every category
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2058657149316907334

Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro are now generally available. 🍌 Our best image generation models are now available to developers and businesses in @GoogleAIStudio and via the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform API.
https://x.com/Google/status/2060029132105191723

Very excited that @GoogleAIStudio is coming to mobile (both Android and iOS) with native apps! We rebuilt the vibe coding experience to bring it to even more people in a form factor that feels approachable + simple iOS:
https://t.co/NwtjyZZaeo Android:
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2057482631764431132

We just 3xed the Antigravity limits again, but this time, the weekly quotas. We want you to stay in flow state building with Gemini so we hope this helps! Keep the feedback coming : )
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2057657580546322844

We just 3xed the rate limits across all tiers in Antigravity so that you can put 3.5 Flash through its paces even more, enjoy, and keep the feedback coming! 🙂
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2057332780741357662

We just launched the ability to build native Android apps directly in Google AI Studio for free! Since launch last week, people have created more than 250,000 Android apps. Likely >99% of these folks never built an Android app before, everyone can now build, no coding required!
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2058997700218294564

We’ve heard your feedback about hitting limits too quickly on @GeminiApp. We’re rolling out several fixes to make your quota stretch further and feel more predictable… 🧵
https://x.com/joshwoodward/status/2060171610922058142?s=20

YouTube + Maps is one helluva data moat for Google. Case in point:
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2057709970238407007

Gemini 3.5 Flash is a step forward for Google on speed and agentic capabilities but comes at a trade-off of being higher cost than prior models We have measured up to ~280 output tokens/sec, placing it on the speed/intelligence Pareto frontier and well ahead of Gemini 3 Flash.
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2059316050391634302

Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks #1 on Automation Bench (from Zapier), beating every other frontier model at a much lower cost
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2057317567673594131

Thanks for all of the Antigravity feedback over the last couple of days, especially around the IDE. Our intention was never to remove the IDE support for developers, and we should have been clearer with that in the product from the beginning. We’ve made it clearer in 2.0 on how
https://x.com/_mohansolo/status/2057910616153882949

What if you can build an Agent with it own computer in a single api call? At my @Google I/O talk, I showed how to use Gemini Managed Agents and the new Interactions API to give your AI a secure, hosted Linux sandbox to execute code and manage its own memory.
https://x.com/_philschmid/status/2057833963633418426

you can outsource your thinking, but you can’t outsource your understanding”” easy to forget in todays AI era, worth remembering everyday as we all wield more intelligence!
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2059648809584808179

Gemini 3.5 Flash has made huge progress from 3.1 Pro on GDPval, Flash is competing at the frontier, post training going strong 🙂
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2057682092583227881

Gemini 3.5 Flash is on the Pareto frontier of cost per intelligence on Vending Bench (a measure of a models ability to run a simulated store)!
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2058210519291777087

Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is | Don’t Worry About the Vase
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/gemini-3-5-flash-looks-good-for-how-fast-it-is/

Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms 3.1 Pro on many vision use cases (like the below Roboflow eval) while being ~6x faster on average 🤯 Gemini multimodal understanding for the win.
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2057888362011463988

Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks #1 on the APEX-Agents-AA benchmark, outperforming much larger models a whole size above it.
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2057460544643404125

some more recent ALE-Bench results: Grok-4.3 is pretty terrible, basically worse than all the frontier chinese models like Kimi-K2.6, DeepSeek-V4, GLM-5.1 and even Grok-4.2 lol Gemini 3.5 Flash only gets good with multiple iterations but gets mogged by Kimi-K2.6 and is also
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2057937081070944709

Gemini 3.5 flash release is underwhelming for browser agents. Slight improvement in performance over Gemini 3.1 pro, at a small increase in total cost
https://x.com/Alezander907/status/2057686331380359566

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) and Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) are now GA. – Flash: $0.045/image. – Pro: $0.134/image. 🆕 Nano Banana 2 (Flash) support video as input, analyzes footage and generate context-aware images, thumbnails, and infographics from it.
https://x.com/_philschmid/status/2060064810633482580

Introducing the newest Coral board, for efficient, on-device AI! Check out the demos in the video: – On-board speech translation – Natural language controlling hardware – Vision & sound generating music
https://x.com/googlegemma/status/2059740184930074758

I had a wonderful time chatting with Kanishka Rao (Director, Robotics, Google DeepMind) and @_albertorod_ (Director of Robot Behavior, Atlas, Boston Dynamics) at Google I/O.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2057500556609093793

Gave google omni a sketched camera path and asked it to generate drone POV footage.
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2059419767417487718

Google just revealed Omni, personalized cross-device intelligence, and Spark agents at I/O 2025. I sat down with CEO Sundar Pichai to figure out what comes next: 1:46 Omni: “”Nano Banana for video”” 4:59 The future of YouTube 7:04 Advice for AI skeptics 9:33 Why your mom should
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2057491344697012384

Nano Banana for video is here 🍌🎥 Gemini Omni is our new AI model that makes creating and editing videos as easy as having a conversation. Here’s how it works ↓
https://x.com/Google/status/2057881884219035752

We came across a really interesting tool that fixes a pretty common problem inside AI video workflows: extending AI cinematic scenes with seamless continuity. Using Omni models, you can take the last frame from an existing video clip and prompt something like: “show me what
https://x.com/CuriousRefuge/status/2057920807389806699

Google Deepmind’s AlphaProof Nexus solves decades-old math problems for a few hundred dollars
https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-alphaproof-nexus-solves-decades-old-math-problems-for-a-few-hundred-dollars/

Gemini Embedding 2: A Native Multimodal Embedding Model from Gemini 🚀 Today, we’re sharing the @GoogleDeepMind white paper for GE 2, our first native multimodal embedding model. Whether it’s text, audio, video, or image, GE 2 provides a unified representation of the input.
https://x.com/mseyed/status/2059504005387284629

Google has the only true Omni model, but the elements aren’t hooked up. It appears it can take in & output audio, images. video, songs, text, code, etc. But right now each type of output is separate. When you can access the model directly, blending modes, a lot becomes possible.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2059774997535584325