--- title: AI News: This is What Useful AI Actually Looks Like description: A weekly AI news roundup covering several major developments: Google DeepMind's Imagen 3 (referred to as Nano Banana 2) image generation model launch with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-news-this-is-what-useful-ai-actually-looks-like-iqbfsgesl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI News: This is What Useful AI Actually Looks Like | daily.dev og:description: A weekly AI news roundup covering several major developments: Google DeepMind's Imagen 3 (referred to as Nano Banana 2) image generation model launch with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-news-this-is-what-useful-ai-actually-looks-like-iqbfsgesl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/IQbfSgesl.png og:image:alt: AI News: This is What Useful AI Actually Looks Like og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI News: This is What Useful AI Actually Looks Like **[Matt Wolfe](https://daily.dev/sources/mreflow)** · 33 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A weekly AI news roundup covering several major developments: Google DeepMind's Imagen 3 (referred to as Nano Banana 2) image generation model launch with search grounding; Perplexity's new Computer agent that orchestrates 19 models for end-to-end task completion; Microsoft Copilot Tasks entering early access; Cursor agents gaining autonomous computer control with session recording; the escalating conflict between Anthropic and the Pentagon over AI safeguards around mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, with xAI/Grok stepping in to fill the gap; Chinese AI companies (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Minimax) caught distillation-attacking Claude; Notion launching custom AI agents; and miscellaneous items including OpenAI smart speaker rumors, Samsung Galaxy S26 AI features, and Burger King deploying AI to monitor employee courtesy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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