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Google drops new Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, says it excels at coding

Google wants their new Gemini model to be the «go-to model» for devs.
Google wants their new Gemini model to be the «go-to model» for devs. (Picture: Google)
The Lmarena leaderboard has a new top contender, after Google launched its new, most advanced reasoning model last night.

Google touts it as especially good for developers, improving on what many felt was already the best coding model.

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Google’s AdSense experimenting with AI chatbots

Google's Adsense is expanding into "converstional ai."
The era of free AI chats may be coming to an end, with google experimenting with ads. (Picture: Google)
The internet display ad behemoth is moving with the times, as the AI industry seeks to monetize. It’s likely only a question of time before we get ads in Gemini.

AdSense apparently began experimenting with ads for AI chatbots, or, as they call it «conversational AI,» in chatbots iAsk and Liner, according to Bloomberg, which is paywalled.

Just a test?
SEO roundtable quotes Bloomberg as saying that AdSense had «expanded to include conversations with chatbots operated by AI startups.»

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Google’s Gemini reaches 350 million monthly users

Gemeni's users have skyrocketed from last year.
Gemeni’s users have skyrocketed from last year. (Picture: Google)
Google showed off an internal slide of monthly active users for its Gemini AI models, hitting a strong benchmark as of March 2025.

The same slide showed daily traffic was at 35 million active users.

Impressive growth
That signals an exponential growth from around 10 million monthly active users from late last year, reports Ars Technica.

It also shows the reach that’s been possible by defaulting to Gemini over Assistant on Android phones and the strength of offering 2.5 Pro to free users just a short while ago. Gemini is also the default assistant on Galaxy phones

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Google paying «enormous sums» for Gemini on Samsung phones

Google is using financial muscle to gain market share with Samsung users
Google is using financial muscle to gain market share with Samsung users. (Picture: Google)
As the antitrust remedy trial against Google continues, Google’s vice president of platforms and device partnerships, Peter Fitzgerald said in court on Monday that Googles payments started in January, after Google was found in breach of antitrust laws for paying Apple and others for placements of search products.

The two year deal included monthly payments and a share of ad revenue, writes The Verge.

The aim of the deal is to give Gemini the pride of being the default AI assistant og Galaxy phones, which sell a ton worldwide.

Should Google loose the trial, which is only for remedies after earlier being found guilty of a monopoly in advertising, they would be forbidden from deals like these, will have to sell Chrome, and open search data to licensing deals.

Read more at The Verge, at 9to5Google and a paywalled Bloomberg.

Gemini 2.5 Pro now available for free, with strict qouta

Gemini 2.5 is topping leaderborads all over. (Picture: Google)
The latest Gemini launch got overshadowed by ChatGPTs new image generation, but the model has been absolutely crushing it in the benchmarks and averages.

The Pro 2.5 is currently one of the best large language model out there, and it is now available for free – with no set qoutas or limits on prompts.

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OpenAI drastically improves ChatGPT image generation

Karl Marx goes shopping, from OpenAI.
Moving from Dall-E to native GPT 4o images makes for higher quality and more lifelike detail — and they also updated their terms of service.

Rolling out to users on Free, Pro and Plus tiers, the image generation should be live pretty much by the time of this writing, letting you generate just about anything you can imagine from a text prompt – within reason.

Accessing a world of knowledge
Since it uses GPT 4o, the generator has access to a world of knowledge and context that was missing from the previous generators, writes Mashable.

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Google’s Gemini to replace Assistant on Android

Gemini will soon be the default assistant on all Android devices. (Pitcure: Google.)
Gemini will soon be the default assistant on all Android devices. (Pitcure: Google.)
Google said in a blog post today that they will waste no time phasing out the revered and often frustrating Google Assistant, and default to Gemini instead on billions of devices, in what could be a risky antitrust move from the behemoth.

That’s despite a multitude of hallucinations and other issues with the AI model, Ars Technica writes.

Assistant was first introduced in 2016, listened for the «Hey Google»-prompt, and worked well for mostly playing stuff off Youtube, but often frustrated users on other tasks.

Only supported assistant
Now the entire Android universe will be using Gemini instead, as the only supported assistant across cars, cellphones, TVs and tablets, which should be a enormous boon to the user base for the AI model.

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