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Google introduced Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a fast execution model for everyday coding and agentic workflows that complements the long-horizon reasoning models Gemini 4 Carbon and Argon. At its default high thinking level it scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index versus Argon's 50, reaching 54 at the new xhigh setting; teams migrating from Gemini 3.8 Flash finish tasks 2.5 times faster, and Terminal-Bench 4.1 rises from 18.2% to 57%. Pricing is flat across its 1 million-token context at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.

Google introduced Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a fast execution model for everyday coding and agentic workflows that complements the long-horizon reasoning models Gemini 4 Carbon and Argon. At its default high thinking level it scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index versus Argon's 50, reaching 54 at the new xhigh setting; teams migrating from Gemini 3.8 Flash finish tasks 2.5 times faster, and Terminal-Bench 4.1 rises from 18.2% to 57%. Pricing is flat across its 1 million-token context at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.

Google released chrome-devtools-mcp, which lets coding agents such as Antigravity, Claude, Cursor and Copilot control and inspect a running Chrome browser through a Model-Context-Protocol server or a command-line interface. It hands agents DevTools performance tracing, network request analysis, screenshots and console messages, and uses puppeteer to perform actions and automatically wait for their results. The tool officially supports only Google Chrome and Chrome for Testing; other Chromium-based browsers may work but are not guaranteed.

Google released chrome-devtools-mcp, which lets coding agents such as Antigravity, Claude, Cursor and Copilot control and inspect a running Chrome browser through a Model-Context-Protocol server or a command-line interface. It hands agents DevTools performance tracing, network request analysis, screenshots and console messages, and uses puppeteer to perform actions and automatically wait for their results. The tool officially supports only Google Chrome and Chrome for Testing; other Chromium-based browsers may work but are not guaranteed.

Google has added Google Wallet to Gemini's list of connected apps under Personal Intelligence, so all Gemini app users in the U.S. can now tag @Google Wallet in a chat to ask about personal finance, budgeting and subscriptions, and Gemini generates dynamic charts of cash flow, asset allocation and budgets from that context. Users can optionally link credit cards and bank accounts to Wallet through Plaid for deeper analysis. Gemini can only read account information; it cannot move, manage or invest money, and the connection can be turned on or off at any time.

Google has added Google Wallet to Gemini's list of connected apps under Personal Intelligence, so all Gemini app users in the U.S. can now tag @Google Wallet in a chat to ask about personal finance, budgeting and subscriptions, and Gemini generates dynamic charts of cash flow, asset allocation and budgets from that context. Users can optionally link credit cards and bank accounts to Wallet through Plaid for deeper analysis. Gemini can only read account information; it cannot move, manage or invest money, and the connection can be turned on or off at any time.

NVIDIA's open-source AICR now includes Google's k8s-aibom as a qualified component in its recipes, so a GPU-accelerated Kubernetes platform can deploy a known-good configuration while recording which AI workloads actually run in the cluster. Previously a recipe fixed only the platform configuration, and workloads updated independently by application teams, plus mutable tags like :latest, could leave two nodes running different code under the same tag. Two GKE recipes select the component by default, and others can opt in at generation time.

NVIDIA's open-source AICR now includes Google's k8s-aibom as a qualified component in its recipes, so a GPU-accelerated Kubernetes platform can deploy a known-good configuration while recording which AI workloads actually run in the cluster. Previously a recipe fixed only the platform configuration, and workloads updated independently by application teams, plus mutable tags like :latest, could leave two nodes running different code under the same tag. Two GKE recipes select the component by default, and others can opt in at generation time.

Google has brought the Gemini app to Apple CarPlay, letting iOS users hold natural, hands-free conversations with Gemini Live from the car display and pick up a recent chat. The app had already rolled out on Android Auto and cars with Google built-in; this extends it to CarPlay. Conversations sync automatically to the Gemini app on the iPhone, so summaries, notes and brainstorms are waiting in chat history once the driver parks.

Google has brought the Gemini app to Apple CarPlay, letting iOS users hold natural, hands-free conversations with Gemini Live from the car display and pick up a recent chat. The app had already rolled out on Android Auto and cars with Google built-in; this extends it to CarPlay. Conversations sync automatically to the Gemini app on the iPhone, so summaries, notes and brainstorms are waiting in chat history once the driver parks.

Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out to a broader set of cyber defenders after a limited Fairwind window, and it solved all twelve end-to-end simulated cyberattack scenarios, up from five in the previous generation.

Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out to a broader set of cyber defenders after a limited Fairwind window, and it solved all twelve end-to-end simulated cyberattack scenarios, up from five in the previous generation.