Google introduced Nano Banana 2 on 2026-02-26, positioning it as a faster image model that combines Nano Banana Pro-level capabilities with Gemini Flash latency. The rollout spans Gemini app, Search, AI Studio/Gemini API, Vertex AI preview, Flow, and Google Ads, while pairing SynthID with C2PA provenance signals.
On 2026-02-25, Google announced that Intrinsic is joining Google, and Intrinsic said it will operate as a distinct group inside Google. The companies positioned the move as a way to combine Intrinsic robotics software with Gemini models, Google Cloud, and close work with Google DeepMind for faster industrial deployment.
At the India AI Impact Summit held in New Delhi February 19–21, tech commitments surpassed $400B. OpenAI partnered with TCS for data center capacity, and Anthropic teamed with Infosys to deploy Claude across Indian enterprises.
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19, achieving 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2—more than double its predecessor's 31.1%—with a 1M-token context window and 80.6% on SWE-Bench Verified.
A lawyer claims Google disabled his Gmail, Voice, and Photos accounts without warning after uploading sensitive public records to NotebookLM, raising concerns about AI platform content moderation and the risks for professional users.
Google DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic Labs published a technical report on IsoDDE, a proprietary drug discovery AI that scientists are comparing to a hypothetical AlphaFold 4. The model excels at predicting protein-drug binding and has secured billion-dollar deals with J&J, Eli Lilly, and Novartis.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro achieves 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2—more than doubling the previous Gemini 3 Pro's score. The mid-cycle upgrade brings Deep Think-level reasoning capabilities to all users and developers.
Google has begun restricting accounts of Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers who used the third-party client OpenClaw via OAuth, citing Terms of Service violations. The action has sparked debate in developer communities about the limits of AI subscription plans and user rights.
A user created a fully playable space exploration game using only natural language instructions to Gemini 3.1 Pro over a few hours. The AI handled performance optimization, soundtrack generation, and UI design entirely from plain language requests, producing around 1,800 lines of HTML code.
A lawyer doing routine criminal case work had his entire Google account disabled after uploading text-only law enforcement reports to Google NotebookLM. The incident exposes structural issues with AI platform content moderation affecting legitimate professional work.
WordPress.com launched a built-in AI assistant on February 17, enabling Business and Commerce plan users to edit text, generate images via Google's Nano Banana models, and modify layouts through natural language commands.
Apple released the first iOS 26.4 developer beta on February 17 without the expected Google Gemini-powered Siri improvements, citing response latency and query processing issues during internal testing.