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Google has updated Gemini to let users edit AI-generated documents directly within the app, offering interactive previews alongside text-based revision requests. The web version supports a wide range of file types, including spreadsheets, presentations, code, and Workspace files, while the mobile app currently only handles PDFs.
Alphabet reported nearly $128 billion in Q3 2026 revenue and over $26 billion in net income, up 25% year-over-year but with earnings per share of $2.12, well below the $3.02 analysts expected. Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler noted search volume grew 12% year-over-year, down from 17% in Q2 and 19% in Q1, with search revenue flat, while Google Cloud topped $30 billion, beating forecasts.
Google has rolled out the ability to generate, preview, and edit files such as Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, PDFs, Markdown, TXT, and code directly inside Gemini chats, without switching to separate apps. The feature is live today for all Gemini users; PDF support works on both web and mobile, while the other file types are currently web-only. Users can expand documents into full-screen mode and highlight text to ask Gemini questions or request edits, such as converting a highlighted table into a graph.
Artificial Analysis reports that Google's new Gemini 4 Carbon model has topped its Intelligence Index v5 with a score of 59, ranking first in 4 of 9 component evaluations including HLE-Diamond and AA-Omniscience. The model also placed second on the firm's Coding Agent Index, trailing only Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, and showed sizable gains in agentic knowledge-work benchmarks over its predecessor, Gemini 4 Argon. The model is currently in limited rollout with a 50% launch discount and not yet publicly available.
Android Authority contrasts Google's approach of weaving Gemini AI into core Android functions like messaging and photography with Apple's more restrained AI rollout on the iPhone 18 Pro. The piece notes Apple has focused on building on-device processing to keep AI features local and private rather than pushing users toward cloud-connected tools.
Google has launched Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier AI model it says tops rival systems from OpenAI and Anthropic on the AA Index v5.0 benchmark and leads in categories like agentic coding, computer use and science. The company highlighted particularly strong results in cybersecurity, claiming the model is better at finding, prioritizing and patching vulnerabilities at the root cause, and twice as likely to generate secure code as its predecessor, Gemini 4 Argon. Carbon will initially be restricted to select cybersecurity defense firms for testing before wider release through Google's Fairwind Program.
Google updated Gemini in Sheets so AI-generated cells now display the web sources used to populate them, letting users verify data without searching separately. The update also increases Gemini's processing capacity to 3,000 cells per request, with Google claiming some 500-cell tasks run up to 55 times faster than manual entry. Google Sheets is additionally rolling out compact pivot tables and improved Excel compatibility to all users.
Google has introduced a new feature in Gemini called immersive explorations, offering 20 preset topics spanning categories like Civilizations, Energy, Engineering, Medicine, Geology, Oceans, and Spaceflight. The feature sits within Gemini's student hub alongside existing tools like flashcards and quizzes, and is available on mobile and web for all users.
Google and XREAL have released XREAL AURA, described as the first wired XR glasses built on Android XR. The glasses weigh under 95 grams and offload processing to a connected compute puck containing the battery and Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Reality Elite platform, offering a 70-degree field of view and Gemini AI integration across real-world and app content.
Google has launched Gemini 4 Carbon, its second new frontier AI model in a month following Gemini 4 Argon. The model improves on coding, agentic tasks, scientific reasoning and multimodal understanding, with Google saying its biggest gains are in cybersecurity, including more than doubling secure-code generation rates versus Argon. Carbon will first go to select cyber defenders before wider release, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new large language model aimed at cybersecurity professionals for detecting and patching software vulnerabilities, which it says outperforms its own Gemini 4 Argon and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on benchmarks. The company also released Genie 4, a world model that simulates physical environments and now supports audio like background noise and dialogue. Both models remain restricted: Gemini 4 Carbon is limited to select cybersecurity experts while Genie 4 has a waitlist, with no public release date confirmed.
Google has announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier AI model released just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, which it says improves on coding, agentic tasks, scientific analysis and cybersecurity. The company reports gains such as doubled vulnerability-free code generation versus Argon and a 10x improvement in patch quality claimed by its Chrome team, plus an 89-point jump on the WebDev Arena leaderboard. Despite announcing the model, Google is not yet making it broadly available, instead pursuing a staged rollout.