Your next board decision hinges on whether you can run AI-generated ad images inside Google Ads at half the cost. Google rolled out Nano Banana 2—Gemini 3.1 Flash Image—into Ads, delivering 4K images, cleaner text, and SynthID provenance at 25–50% less than pro-tier. Perplexity Computer launches a $200/month digital worker that orchestrates multiple models for multi-step tasks. You’ll walk away seeing AI execute inside your stack, demanding governance like infrastructure, not a creative experiment.