Google AI Updates: May 12, 2026

1. AI-Powered Google Finance Rolls Out Across Europe

Google. Google is launching its rebuilt, Gemini-powered Finance experience across Europe this week with full local-language support, bringing Deep Search-style equity research, AI-generated earnings call insights with synchronized transcripts, expanded crypto and commodities coverage, and richer technical charting to EU users. The interesting practitioner angle is the live earnings flow: Google is wiring Gemini directly into a real-time audio + transcript pipeline and surfacing AI-curated highlights, which is one of the cleanest production examples of streaming financial RAG it has shipped to consumers. Source

2. Gemini “Omni” Video Model Leaks Inside the Gemini App

Google. A new video model labeled “Gemini Omni” briefly surfaced for some users inside the Gemini app, with a prompt to “Create with Gemini Omni” and a feature set that includes remixing existing videos, editing clips directly in chat, and template-based generation, currently capped around 10-second outputs. Early sample outputs (a professor writing chalkboard math, a seaside restaurant scene) show strong prompt adherence and noticeably better text rendering and scene coherence than current Veo defaults, and the two demos reportedly burned through 86% of an AI Pro daily allowance, suggesting Omni is significantly heavier than Veo 3.1 at inference. Google has not announced the model; the surface looks like a staging leak ahead of I/O 2026. Source