Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Google released a "Celebrating Gumbo" Doodle ahead of Super Bowl LIX in Louisiana Sunday. The image features a stew bubbling with shrimp and vegetables. A chicken, crab, crawfish, garlic, sausage, celery, onion and peppers surround the steaming pot.

Google revealed the theme of its national Super Bowl commercial, releasing a two-minute extended version featuring a father using its Gemini Live AI assistant to prepare for a job interview. A 60-second version of the commercial,

Google’s updated AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance.

Google published principles in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, those guidelines are being overhauled.

Human Rights Watch has criticised the decision, telling the BBC that AI can "complicate accountability" for battlefield decisions that "may have life or death consequences." In a blog post Google defended the change,

With the Gemini family, Google is expanding its lineup of AI models to include an inexpensive option. Google has announced several big updates to Gemini, its family of artificial intelligence models.

Google has now given its Gemini app access to a new AI model called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental. According to the announcement blog post, the company says this model is currently “ranked as the world’s best model” and is available at no cost.