A top Hacker News discussion tracked Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro rollout. Google positions it as a stronger reasoning baseline, highlighting a 77.1% ARC-AGI-2 score and broad preview availability across developer, enterprise, and consumer channels.
Google announced the Google AI Professional Certificate on February 19, 2026 to address a documented AI training gap between employer expectations and worker access. The program includes practical job workflows and three months of Google AI Pro for participants.
In remarks published on February 19, 2026, Google CEO Sundar Pichai framed AI as a major platform shift and highlighted India-focused infrastructure and skilling plans. The speech cites a $15 billion Google infrastructure investment in India and calls for coordinated public-private governance.
Google announced on February 18, 2026 that Lyria 3 music generation is rolling out in beta in the Gemini app. Users can create 30-second tracks from text or images, and all generated audio is marked with SynthID.
On February 12, 2026, Google said it open-sourced patches to improve AI-powered vulnerability detection across OSS-Fuzz and Open Source Vulnerabilities. The announcement ties directly to Big Sleep findings, including OpenSSL CVE-2025-6965 and an earlier NVIDIA Triton issue tracked as CVE-2025-23319.
Google announced a major Gemini 3 Deep Think upgrade with stronger reasoning benchmarks and early API access for researchers and enterprises.