nano banana

A late‑night joke, a crowd‑sourced testbed and a sticky bit of internet serendipity combined to turn a throwaway codename into one of the most recognizable labels in consumer image AI: Nano Banana—the nickname that followed Google’s Gemini image model from anonymous LM Arena entries to mass...

Google’s Gemini 3 has forced a seismic strategic shift across the AI landscape, prompting OpenAI to declare an internal emergency and redirect engineering resources to its flagship chatbot in an effort to defend ChatGPT’s market position. The new Gemini release — coupled with Google’s viral...

Google’s image generation pipeline appears poised for another rapid iteration: early leak signals and a flurry of community testing point to a second-generation “Nano Banana 2” (internal codename GEMPIX 2) surfacing in Media AI and in Gemini UI experiments, promising native 2K output, multi‑step...

Google is quietly turning Chrome’s address bar into a miniature AI workstation: Canary builds now show a new “+” control and AI action chips that promise to let you create images, attach files or images for context, and run deep, Gemini-powered research directly from the Omnibox—all without...

A playful name and a deceptively simple prompt have pushed Google’s Gemini “Nano Banana” into the center of a new viral wave: users are turning ordinary selfies into hyper‑realistic miniature figurines, packaging mockups and even short animated clips with only a handful of words. The trend has...

Rich’s roundup from CEDIA 2025 landed like a fast-moving tour of where the modern smart home is headed: pro-grade audio and outdoor AV, smart TVs with generative AI baked in, practical advice for Windows 10 users facing the October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline, and a demonstration of how the...