Binary Buzz: Gemini Levels Up, Trump Targets Tech, and the Rest of Tech’s Tea

This week's global tech news was electric with Google's blockbuster announcements at I/O 2025, where the tech giant rolled out sweeping new changes to its Gemini AI platform, taking the bar on artificial intelligence. Gemini 2.5 Pro is today's world-leading web creation and learning, boasting its "Deep Think" mode that delivers high-level reasoning ability for tough math and code functions. The performance-optimized Gemini 2.5 Flash model for speed and efficiency is now available to all, with improved performance in coding, multimodal activities, and response efficiency at the expense of up to 30% less tokens. Both models now possess the ability to process audio-visual input and native audio output in 24 languages, providing a means for dynamic, conversational AI experiences.

 

Google's dream of a "universal AI assistant" is becoming reality, with Gemini Live offering camera-to-conversation, Imagen 4 for creating images, and Veo 3 for artificial intelligence-enabled video. The Gemini app is also more personal and anticipatory, natively integrating end-to-end across Chrome, Android, and developer tools, and introducing new security protection to prevent advanced prompt injection attacks.

 

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump rattled global supply chains by threatening tariffs on India-made iPhones, making Apple and factory partners nervous as they cope with a more complex trade landscape.

 

Other I/O standouts included Android development tools on Gemini, the evolution of Project Starline into Google Beam for 3D video calling, and an AR smart glasses demo. As geopolitics and AI reshape the technology world, the news this week is a summer of hyper-accelerated change and compounding competition.

 

Source: Google Blog, ZDNet, The Verge