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Google is significantly expanding its AI capabilities across its platforms, impacting software development, advertising, and search functionalities. A major upgrade to Gemini Code Assist now features the Gemini 2.5 Pro model. This enhances the code assistance tool with a 1 million-token context window and custom commands, improving its capacity for more comprehensive code generation, deeper refactoring, and more thorough pull-request reviews. This upgrade allows developers to tailor the assistant's behavior to adhere to internal conventions and reuse prompts, significantly boosting coding task completion rates. Internal studies indicate that teams using the tool are 2.5 times more likely to finish typical coding tasks, with early community benchmarks showing higher accuracy than Copilot on context-heavy queries.

Google is also innovating in the realm of search and content delivery, testing a feature that transforms some search results into AI-generated podcasts. This experimental feature, part of Google Labs, aims to provide users with "quick, conversational audio overviews" of search queries. The feature leverages Google’s Gemini model to research search queries, analyze various third-party websites, and generate a transcript that is then read aloud by two AI-generated hosts. While this new feature offers a convenient way for users to absorb information while multitasking, it raises concerns about potentially diverting traffic away from the original sources of information.

In a groundbreaking move, an AI-generated advertisement created with Google's Veo3 aired during the NBA Finals. This marks a significant milestone in AI-driven content creation, demonstrating the potential for drastic cost reductions in advertising production. The advertisement for the event-betting platform Kalshi was created by AI Filmmaker PJ Accetturo in just three days, resulting in an estimated 95% cost reduction compared to traditional commercial production methods. This showcases a shift towards smaller, more agile creative teams leveraging AI to produce high-volume, brand-relevant content quickly and affordably while highlighting the importance of human skills such as comedy writing and directorial experience in the age of AI.

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References :

• PCMag Middle East ai: Just Press Play: Google Is Turning Some Search Results Into AI Podcasts
• www.marktechpost.com: AI-Generated Ad Created with Google’s Veo3 Airs During NBA Finals, Slashing Production Costs by 95%
• TestingCatalog: Gemini Code Assist gets latest Gemini 2.5 Pro with context management and rules
• MarkTechPost: AI-Generated Ad Created with Google’s Veo3 Airs During NBA Finals, Slashing Production Costs by 95%
• www.techradar.com: Discusses the forthcoming Audio Overviews in Google Search, which leverage AI to generate podcast-style explainers of web results.
• Google DeepMind Blog: Explore the latest Gemini 2.5 model updates with enhanced performance and accuracy: Gemini 2.5 Pro now stable, Flash generally available, and the new Flash-Lite in preview.
• TestingCatalog: Discover the latest in AI with Google Gemini 2.5's stable release, featuring Pro and Flash models.
• AI & Machine Learning: Gemini momentum continues with launch of 2.5 Flash-Lite and general availability of 2.5 Flash and Pro on Vertex AI
• LearnAI: Today we are excited to share updates across the board to our Gemini 2.5 model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro is generally available and stable (no changes from the 06-05 preview) Gemini 2.5 Flash is generally available and stable (no changes from the 05-20 preview, see pricing updates below) Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now available in...
• www.laptopmag.com: Google brings Gemini's latest 2.5 Flash and Pro models to audiences, and makes Flash-Lite available for testing.
• thezvi.wordpress.com: Google recently came out with Gemini-2.5-0605, to replace Gemini-2.5-0506, because I mean at this point it has to be the companies intentionally fucking with us, right? Google: 🔔Our updated Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview continues to excel at coding, helping you …
• thezvi.substack.com: Google recently came out with Gemini-2.5-0605, to replace Gemini-2.5-0506.
• learn.aisingapore.org: Gemini 2.5 model family expands
• www.techradar.com: Google Gemini’s super-fast Flash-Lite 2.5 model is out now - here’s why you should switch today
• learn.aisingapore.org: Today we are excited to share updates across the board to our Gemini 2.5 model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro is generally available and stable (no changes from the 06-05 preview) Gemini 2.5 Flash is generally available and stable (no changes from the 05-20 preview, see pricing updates below) Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now available in...
• global.techradar.com: Google lancia Gemini Flash-Lite 2.5: il modello IA più veloce di sempre
• Simon Willison: Blogged too much today and had to send it all out in a newsletter - it's a pretty fun one, covering Gemini 2.5 and Mistral Small 3.2 and the fact that most LLMs will absolutely try and murder you given the chance (and a suitably contrived scenario)

Classification:

• HashTags: #GoogleAI #Gemini2.5 #AICodeAssist
• Company: Google
• Target: General Users
• Product: Gemini, Search
• Feature: AI Enhancements
• Type: ProductUpdate
• Severity: Informative