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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.

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.

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.