Keep your hands on the wheel while chatting with Gemini about your route and destination -- or have it handle your to-do list.

Therefore, when Google began allowing small numbers of employees back into the office, Brin tagged along and put his efforts into what would become Google’s AI model, Gemini. Despite being the world’s fourth-richest man with a net worth of $247 billion, retirement wasn’t for him, he said.

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OpenAI would eat Google’s lunch. ChatGPT was the future of search, and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was a lumbering giant about to be disrupted. Fast forward to December 2025, and the story has flipped. Google just delivered its first $100 billion quarter,

Google has started rolling out a shortcut to access NotebookLM directly within Gemini, allowing you to bring your notebooks to the chatbot.

The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so it’s easier to follow the conversation and tell who’s saying what.

Gemini works great as a standalone AI chatbot, and its bundled cloud storage and deep integrations with nearly every Google app make it a superb value.

It’s an interesting pivot for Google. Most AI companies are currently investing in web browsing via the AI browser idea, which includes Perplexity’s Comet and Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge. Google has the Chrome browser with Gemini baked in already, so this is a different way to explore the notion of web browsing with AI.

A new plus button has appeared in Google Search, letting you upload images and documents for AI-powered analysis via Google AI Mode. Google has not published an official blog post about the button yet, and it is possible that the added function is experimental and available for a handful of users.

Search Live gets an upgrade with Gemini 2.5 native audio, delivering faster, more natural voice conversations and hands-free help in the Google app.