Google is bringing a more powerful version of its Nano Banana AI image model to free users. Nano Banana 2 (also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) is rolling out today across the Gemini app and other Google AI platforms, making knowledge and rendering features that were previously exclusive to Nano Banana Pro available for everyone.
Cybersecurity veteran Brian Gumbel - president and chief operating officer (COO) at Dataminr - works at the confluence of real-time information and AI. Mainlined into humanity's daily maelstrom of data, Dataminr detects events "on average 5 hours ahead of the Associated Press" - it picked up the 2024 Baltimore bridge collapse, for example, about an hour ahead of all mainstream media sources. The accuracy rate of its "news" is, says Gumbel, a highly impressive 99.5%.