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Google Gemini 3.6 Flash Arrives: Faster Agents and 17% Token Savings
Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, a high-efficiency workhorse model optimized for production AI agents, coding, and multi-step reasoning.
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Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Months Late. Coding Is Why.
Bloomberg reports Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind its June promise as coding gains miss internal targets. Alphabet shares slipped, partners are still testing, and Google says it is engaged with the U.S. government on the model.
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Google Retires Gemini CLI for Closed-Source Antigravity CLI
On June 18 Google cut off Gemini CLI for free, Pro, and Ultra users and pushed them to a new tool, Antigravity CLI. It's more than a rename — and enterprise customers are the exception.
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Apple Rebuilt Siri With Google's Help. Just Don't Call It Gemini.
The new Siri AI leans on a custom Google-built model running on Nvidia hardware in Google's cloud — and Apple's press release never says the word Google. What's verifiable, what's contractual, and what IT shops should ask.
Technology
Gemini API Bills Keep Hitting Devs. Restrict Your Keys Before June 19.
A steady stream of Google Cloud customers keep waking up to four- and five-figure Gemini API bills, racked up in hours by attackers who scraped Maps or Firebase keys from public code. Google has set a June 19, 2026 cutoff to block unrestricted keys from Gemini entirely. Here is what the recurring pattern looks like, and what to do this week.
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Old Google API Keys Now Open Gemini, Draining Cloud Bills
Google spent a decade telling developers that Maps and Firebase API keys are not secrets. When Gemini was added to the Google Cloud Platform, those same keys silently gained the ability to make billable Gemini calls — and the bills started arriving. One team of three developers woke up to a $82,314 charge. The architectural fix is still pending.