Google Fast‑tracks Gemini Across Apps, Games

Google is fast‑tracking its Gemini 2.5 model across its ecosystem, adding a Gemini Live in‑game overlay on Play Store titles that can “see” the screen, offer tailored hints and audible replies, and embedding Gemini into Chrome to provide context‑aware summaries, actions and integrations with Calendar, Maps and YouTube. Gemini 2.5 is billed as a major leap in multimodal reasoning and scientific/medical assistance, and Gemini 2.5 Pro ranked first in a 21,000‑person survey of 27 models for communication and reasoning. Google is also improving Play Store game pages (progress, rewards, developer Q&A) and expanding Play Games to PC to broaden where Gemini can be used. Analysts and experts warn the model exposes gaps around safety, legal compliance and occupational health that require careful human oversight. The industry is responding with product and policy changes—such as stricter under‑18 guardrails—and companies are hiring engineers with GenAI, MLOps and vector DB skills to operationalize the models responsibly.