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TechCrunch reports growth from 750M in February to near a billion, roughly 250M added in five months. Distribution beats benchmark parity. Google ships the model into Android, Search and Workspace surfaces no independent lab can reach.
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- Source: IT Pro - Date: 2026-02-04 Google Cloud revenue hit $17.7B (up 48% YoY), 2026 CapEx planned at $175-185B. Announced "Universal Commerce Protocol" for agentic shopping. Google is quietly building the largest AI distribution moat through Android/Chrome/Search integration.
Rolling out August 14, the Media Watermark setting removes the visible mark from images, video and music from the Nano Banana, Omni and Lyria models, with the toggle in Flow and Search support coming. Invisible SynthID and C2PA provenance metadata stay embedded. TechCrunch Det...
The single biggest AI story this week resolved with maximum drama. After Anthropic refused the February 27 deadline ("We cannot in good conscience accede"), three things happened in rapid succession: The Ban: Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic products...
Google is closing the current Imagen generation's API endpoints and pointing callers at the Gemini image model (LLM Stats). It consolidates image generation under a single Gemini surface, which means anyone still pinned to Imagen endpoints has a migration today. Confirmed thro...
Google DeepMind shipped computer use as a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash on June 24, collapsing the standalone Oct-2025 computer-use model into the same model you already use for function calling, Search grounding, and Maps. One agent sees a screen, clicks, types, and l...
Multiple sources report Google will unveil Gemini 4.0 (a major overhaul, not incremental), Android 17 with native agentic AI, and Android XR smart glasses. A separate 'The Android Show' runs May 12. One week from today, the competitive map could look different.
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