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Gemini Gems end for personal accounts in November 2026. A practical guide to moving them to Skills yourself: inventory, converting Word and Excel files, creating the skill, adding files, testing, and a worked example.
A first-look Gemini review based on Google’s official pages: what you get for free, what Plus, Pro and Ultra add, which features depend on your country, and what happens to your chats.
Google is introducing Skills in Gemini: reusable custom instructions you save once and run with a slash in the prompt bar. Skills replace Gems, are already in Spark, and are rolling into Gemini chat globally, with a clear timeline for ending Gems support.
Google Research describes a new Federated Learning stack built on server-side TEEs, a public transparency log, and production use in Gboard for English and Japanese next-word prediction.
Per the CDC’s end-of-season FluSight analysis, a flu forecasting model built with Google AI best matched observed U.S. hospital admissions for 2025-26 among 39 eligible models.
Google says its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit after a SpaceX rideshare with Planet. Contact is confirmed, and the mission will gather data on how TPUs handle space conditions.
Google DeepMind has announced SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods for AI-generated protein sequences and 3D structures that remain detectable after lab synthesis.
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, 2026. It is the first model in the Gemini 4 generation and the company’s new flagship. The announcement on Google’s official blog was written by Koray Kavukcuoglu, SVP at Google DeepMind and Google’s Chief AI Architect, and it presents a model built for long, complex work: software […]
Guided Vision in Gemini Live provides spoken descriptions of objects and text. How to enable it on Android, and what is known about language and country availability.
