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Google Pushes Gemini 3 Pro Into Search And The Gemini App

The new model lands a few weeks before Gemini 2’s first birthday and brings a task-running agent to the Gemini app.

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9 months ago

November 19, 2025

Nour Nasir

Google

Google has pushed Gemini 3 Pro across its consumer and developer platforms, dropping the model into the Gemini app, Google Search’s AI Mode and other products across the company’s cloud stack in a single sweep.

In the app, the model sits behind the “Thinking” option and is open to all users, with higher limits for paid tiers. Answers are reported to be tighter and better structured. More importantly, it unlocks Gemini Agent, a task-runner built on last year’s Project Mariner. Once granted access to Google apps, it can handle chores directly — managing email instead of just suggesting how.

Search has also received a major upgrade. Gemini 3 Pro goes live first for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers inside AI Mode and will also power AI Overviews for the hardest queries. A new routing system (due soon), will decide when a question is sent to the upgraded model. For now, subscribers can trigger it by selecting “Thinking” in AI Mode.

Google argues the model strengthens the “fan-out” technique behind AI Mode by running broader, deeper searches and surfacing material earlier versions overlooked. Better multimodal analysis should also produce more functional answers; researching personal loans, for example, could return an embedded calculator rather than a wall of text.

The company is leaning on benchmark gains to anchor the launch. On benchmarking platform Humanity’s Last Exam, the model hit 37.5 percent accuracy, topping Grok 4 by 12.1 points without using web search. It also leads the LMArena board with 1,501 points.

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Developers get the same upgrades too: Gemini 3 Pro is now in the Gemini API, AI Studio and Vertex AI. Google is also adding Antigravity, an autonomous coding tool that writes software while generating its own subtasks and progress notes. Gemini 3 Deep Think, a higher-end reasoning mode, will reach safety testers first before moving to AI Ultra users.

For MENA firms already prototyping with Google models, the rollout offers quicker access to production-grade assistants and coding agents as competition between global AI platforms tightens.

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Instagram Redraws Its Wordmark And The Internet Reads “Instagzam”

Instagram’s first wordmark refresh in a decade arrives with new fonts, a restrained gradient — and a Reddit verdict of sidegrade.

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4 days ago

August 14, 2026

Nour Nasir

Instagram

Although Instagram’s famous camera icon hasn’t changed, the company has refreshed the handwritten wordmark at the top of its app. This is the first redesign we’ve seen in ten years, and one the internet promptly set about renaming.

“The wordmark at the top of the app hasn’t changed in 10 years, so it was time for a refresh,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri wrote in a post on August 13, describing the new version as “cleaner and more modern” while keeping references to the original design.

Instagram says its team explored hundreds of options — all-caps lettering, camera-inspired concepts, even literal handwriting — before returning to script. “Script reflects individuality, so referencing that felt right,” Instagram director of product design Jasmine Probst said in Meta’s announcement. “The new wordmark is bolder and simpler, with touches of unexpectedness. It cues individual expression, a personal voice, both of which have always been core to Instagram”.

The wordmark is part of a broader brand overhaul: an updated Instagram Sans typeface, two new fonts — the hand-drawn Instagram Pen and Instagram Mono — plus refreshed motion and layouts, and more restrained use of the signature gradient. The wordmark is rolling out globally now, with the rest arriving throughout 2026 and beyond.

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The design mixes cursive and print lettering, some characters connected and others floating free. That hybrid approach, combined with unusually shaped “s” and “r” characters, led some users to conclude the logo actually reads “Instagzam”. On the r/logodesign subreddit, one user said the wordmark looked “fan-made,” like something built in Canva; another called it “an unsettling mix of manuscript and cursive”; a third summarized it as a “sidegrade” — or, inevitably, a “zidegrade”.

Not everyone was hostile to the new look. Some found the half-cursive design stylish and surprisingly readable, while others called it an improvement on its predecessor, and one commenter argued Instagram was simply adopting minimalist branding later than everyone else. Either way, the platform now has a refreshed identity, three updated fonts, and an unofficial new pronunciation.