Google has removed Gemini, its artificial intelligence (AI) model, from the Google app for iPhone and iPad in favor of the standalone Gemini iPhone app.
Gemini AI features pulled from the Google app, use the standalone Gemini iPhone app instead
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Image Playground exhibits racial biases when generating AI images from prompts
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