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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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8 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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YouTube Rolls Out Supervised Children’s Accounts Across MENA

An industry-first feed timer lets parents cap Shorts scrolling. Access can also be switched off entirely ahead of exam season.

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11 hours ago

July 10, 2026

Dana Saadeh

YouTube

YouTube has launched supervised kid accounts across the Middle East and North Africa, giving parents a way to hand their children the main YouTube app without handing over all of it. Announced in Dubai on July 2, the accounts are built directly into the platform rather than the standalone YouTube Kids app, and are aimed at families who feel a child has outgrown the curated library but isn’t ready for the open feed.

Parents can choose from three content settings, each broadly aligned with international content ratings. Explore covers educational videos, tutorials, arts and crafts, and dance. Explore More adds gaming and live streams. Most of YouTube opens up almost everything except videos rated 18+ or deemed inappropriate for supervised accounts.

The standout tool is an industry-first Shorts feed timer, which lets parents set daily limits on short-form scrolling. Set it to zero and Shorts disappears altogether – a lever YouTube suggests parents might pull ahead of exam season. Other protections are on by default for all users under 18: “Take a Break” and “Bedtime” reminders, no personalized ad targeting, autoplay switched off, and no ability to upload videos or write comments. The accounts are optional, and parents can end supervision at any time.

The kid accounts join supervised teen accounts already available across the region, which notify parents by email when a teenager uploads a video or starts a live stream.

“YouTube has been a huge part of families’ lives across this region for over 20 years,” said Javid Aslanov, head of YouTube Middle East and North Africa, citing Kantar research showing 95% of viewers in Saudi Arabia and the UAE agree YouTube has top content in education and learning.

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“It’s essential that we protect young people in – not from – the digital world,” added Garth Graham, YouTube’s head of health.

The new settings are rolling out gradually across the MENA, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Iraq. The latest features can be set up through Family Center in the YouTube app or via Google Family Link.