
As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancing its study notebooks with support for graphs and images. It can even add test dates and deadlines to your Google Calendar based on your syllabus. Google is also adding Deep Research to Gemini Live. You can ask Gemini to ge
Google is introducing a dedicated student hub within its Gemini AI tool that offers features like research collection, flashcard creation, practice quizzes, and calendar integration for test dates and deadlines. The platform is also adding new capabilities including Deep Research for generating detailed research reports through conversational dialogue, enhanced study notebooks with graphs and images, and a photo-based learning feature through Google Lens that provides explanations and coaching on study materials. Eligible students in the US can receive one year of Google AI Pro for free with higher storage and usage limits, while students outside the US have access to a more limited Google AI Plus subscription. These additions come as students prepare for the back-to-school season.

DeepSeek has released an official desktop app for DeepSeek Harness (dsh), its open-source agent harness. The app ships with the v0.2 preview. Installers cover macOS (Apple silicon) and Windows (64-bit). Is it deployable? Yes, today, as a preview. Download it from deepseek.com/harness or run npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web. DeepSeek warns that compatibility-breaking changes will follow. What Shipped in v0.2 A harness is the runtime that turns a model into an agent. It reads files, runs command

When AI systems claim task completion without verification, downstream errors can cascade through dependent processes, exposing gaps in reliability for critical workflows.

Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouthful of a title: "The Outlook and Future of the REX Project, Further Evolving the RE Engine for the Next Generation." During the talk he laid out the challenges facing studios producing games at the scale of Resident Evil, which can make even simple tasks extreme
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