Google has officially acknowledged the upcoming merger of Android and Chromebooks, and it may be coming in 2026.

Keep your hands on the wheel while chatting with Gemini about your route and destination -- or have it handle your to-do list.

Therefore, when Google began allowing small numbers of employees back into the office, Brin tagged along and put his efforts into what would become Google’s AI model, Gemini. Despite being the world’s fourth-richest man with a net worth of $247 billion, retirement wasn’t for him, he said.

OpenAI would eat Google’s lunch. ChatGPT was the future of search, and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was a lumbering giant about to be disrupted. Fast forward to December 2025, and the story has flipped. Google just delivered its first $100 billion quarter,

Gemini works great as a standalone AI chatbot, and its bundled cloud storage and deep integrations with nearly every Google app make it a superb value.

Google has started rolling out a shortcut to access NotebookLM directly within Gemini, allowing you to bring your notebooks to the chatbot.

Search Live gets an upgrade with Gemini 2.5 native audio, delivering faster, more natural voice conversations and hands-free help in the Google app.

Google is upgrading Translate with Gemini-powered context-aware translations, live speech translation through headphones, and new language learning features, rolling out globally over time.