News & Reviews:   generative AI

Google has recently revealed the Google Pics for Google Workspace landing page just a few hours ago. From the description of the features, it seems that it will be a new AI image generation and editing app built into Google Workspace like Slides. 

PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi Tbk (Emtek Group) recently announced their "Studio of the Future" vision using Google Cloud generative AI-based production technology to help revitalize an older 2013 animation work of theirs called Keluarga Somat. The new Keluarga Somat was recently aired in 2026 on Vidio and MentariTV Indonesia.

At the Google Cloud Next 2026, the company discussed how it has evolved its generative AI platform over the past year. The trend for this year is agentic AI, a concept that Google has embraced for Gemini Enterprise. Let's take a look at what this "Agentic Enterprise" platform can do.

The Gemini roll-out continues as Google recently and officially announced Gemini in Chrome for Malaysia. Located in the top right corner under “Ask Gemini”, this opens up the Gemini Prompt window on the right of the currently opened tab. This allows it to read the information on Chrome and works across tabs. Check out all the details here.

According to Google, they've found that most of their users have gotten used to the new additions of AI and Gemini to Google Search and are now asking longer and more complex questions. They say that 5 trillion searches annually are now complemented enough by AI Overviews and AI Mode that the rate of irrelevant ads has been reduced by 40%.

Google recently announced that you can create songs and music using Gemini with their newly released Lyria 3 model. Now, it is officially available in Malaysia from the Gemini app.

Google Malaysia recently announced new updates for Veo 3.1, This includes enhanced Ingredients to Video, so you can better convert uploaded reference images into more dynamic video. 

Generative AI is becoming faster, more realistic and easier to use for creating images and videos. While some people can still easily identify these images and videos, many people can't. Without further ado, here's how to detect AI-generated images with Circle-to-Search and Google Gemini.

While the boom in Generative AI still continues to grow, there have been niggling signs that it could, in fact, share certain aspects with the dot.com bubble. As such, we thought it might be a good idea to revisit the lessons learned from that and what might happen if the AI bubble bursts too. Check it out here.

In 2025, the one system that's become common is generative AI. Even some mid-range devices have generative AI, which is why mobile chipsets now have more emphasis on AI performance. The latest Counterpoint Research report confirms that shipments of Gen-AI chipsets are on the rise.