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Blog post: "Gemini achieves gold-medal level at the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals"

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Smh they still fell behind OAI (OAI got all correct; Gemini got 10/12)

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Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world

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Introducing Veo 3.1

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https://magenta.withgoogle.com/spacedj-announce

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Just when I was wondering about lack of shipping lol

Leak confirms Google Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana 2 could launch soon

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/a ... unch-soon/

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SIMA 2: An Agent that Plays, Reasons, and Learns With You in Virtual 3D Worlds

Last year, we introduced SIMA (Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent), a generalist AI that could follow basic instructions across a wide range of virtual environments. SIMA was a crucial first step in teaching AI to translate language into meaningful action in rich, 3D worlds.

Today we’re introducing SIMA 2, the next milestone in our research creating general and helpful AI agents. By integrating the advanced capabilities of our Gemini models, SIMA is evolving from an instruction-follower into an interactive gaming companion. Not only can SIMA 2 follow human-language instructions in virtual worlds, it can now also think about its goals, converse with users, and improve itself over time.

This is a significant step in the direction of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with important implications for the future of robotics and AI-embodiment in general.

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A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3

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Impressive. That's double the ARC-AGI-2 score of Grok 4...

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Google Brings New Gemini 3 Model to Search, App, and Developer Platforms
Google says Gemini 3 outperforms previous versions on AI leaderboards, reaching 1501 Elo on LMArena.
By Devesh Beri November 19, 2025
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/g ... -platforms

On Tuesday, Google announced Gemini 3, its latest generative AI model. Coming to millions of users through Search, the Gemini app, AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the new agent-focused platform Google Antigravity, Gemini 3 is said to bring major improvements in reasoning, context awareness, and multimodal AI. Google even claims the model can understand and process text, images, video, audio, and code better than anything released so far.

According to Google executives, Gemini 3 outperforms previous versions on AI leaderboards, reaching 1501 Elo on LMArena, and showing PhD-level results with 37.5% on Humanity’s Last Exam and 91.9% on GPQA Diamond.

The new model comes with Deep Think mode, delivering even higher reasoning scores when prompted with complex issues. Gemini 3 also scores high in mathematics and multimodal reasoning, with Google showing results like 23.4% on MathArena Apex, 81% on MMMU-Pro for multimodal reasoning, and 87.6% on Video-MMMU.

Google Ramps Up AI-Powered Travel Tools Ahead of the Holiday Season
Users can find bargain airfare, quickly generate itineraries, and more.
By Devesh Beri November 19, 2025

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/go ... day-season
Google has upgraded its AI-powered travel tools ahead of the holiday season, making new trip planning and booking experiences available to users worldwide.

Among the new features are Google's Canvas in AI Mode, which lets travelers organize upcoming trips with a customizable, interactive itinerary. Users can tell AI Mode what kind of trip they want to plan and what help they need, and Canvas quickly generates an itinerary. The process incorporates real-time flight and hotel data, along with maps, photos, and reviews. Travelers can refine details, such as hotel distances from specific attractions, and add or remove options as their needs change.

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Introducing Nano Banana Pro

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