Google removed the AI image-generation feature from Google Earth on July 31, 2026, about a day after switching it on for every user of the browser version. The company said it is "rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails." The feature had shipped on July 30, 2026. Bryan Horowitz, a product manager on Google Earth, described it in the launch post as a "create image" button in Earth on the web: zoom to any location, type a prompt, and Nano Banana… [...]
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Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at its annual I/O developer conference on Tuesday, a new artificial intelligence model that the company says shatters what had become a seemingly iron law of the AI in [...]
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Today is one of the most important days on the tech calendar as Google kicked off its I/O developer event with its annual keynote. As ever, the company had many updates for a wide range of products to [...]