An AI Has A Substack

Welcome to the Tech Brew ride home for Thursday, 02/26/2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Nano Banana two is here already. NVIDIA tries to assure everybody there is no bubble. Marc Benioff tries to assure everybody there is no SaaS pocalypse. Did Google just do exactly what Apple has been unable to do? And how do you put an old AI model out to pasture? Apparently, you give it a substack. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Google just rolled out Nano Banana two a k a Gemini 3.1 Flash image with advanced world knowledge and precision text rendering and translation across all of its products, quoting The Verge. Like Nano Banana Pro, the Nano Banana two model utilizes real time information, web search images and Gemini's real world knowledge base. Google DeepMind product manager Nyanna Raising Ghani says that this provides more relevant data for creating infographics or diagrams and allows Nano Banana two to render specific subjects more accurately, though examples of such subjects were not provided. Other features inherited from Nano Banana Pro include the ability to generate images with accurate legible text and localized translation. These capabilities previously required a paid subscription to Google AI Plus Pro or Ultra to access in Gemini, but now they'll be expanded to free Gemini users and AI mode in Google search. Nano Banana two also provides more creative control over generated images compared to the original Nano Banana model. Google says that visual improvements include more vibrant lighting, richer textures, and sharper details alongside the ability to adhere to complex image requests more strictly. The appearance of up to five characters and 14 objects can also be maintained more consistently in a single workflow, and users get full control over aspect ratios and image resolution ranging from 512 pixels to up to four k. The new Nano Banana two model will replace the option for Nano Banana Pro across the Gemini app's fast thinking and pro generation modes. Google says AI Pro and Ultra subscribers will still be able to access Nano Banana Pro for specialized tasks by selecting the three dot menu on images to regenerate them. The new model is also rolling out to AI mode in search, Google Lens, the Google app, and browsers for mobile and desktop alongside being the new default image generation model in Google's AI video tool, Flow, end quote. NVIDIA reported q four revenue up 73% year on year to $68,130,000,000 above the $66,210,000,000 estimate. Data center revenue was up 75% year on year to $62,300,000,000, and NVIDIA forecast q one revenue above estimates. But, quoting Bloomberg, NVIDIA's latest sales forecast drew a lukewarm response from investors signaling that concerns over a potential bubble continue to weigh on the dominant maker of artificial intelligence processors. Shares rose about 1% in premarket trading on Thursday. That came after the chipmaker gave a first quarter outlook that easily beat the average analyst estimate, and NVIDIA delivered a 73% surge in …