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Google just hit the AI industry with another surprise — and this one is fast, cheaper and apparently ready to do some serious work. The tech giant officially released Gemini 3.6 Flash on Tuesday, introducing the model as its latest AI “workhorse” built for coding, knowledge-based tasks, multimodal analysis and increasingly complex AI agents. Translation? Google wants this thing handling the everyday heavy lifting — without burning through tokens or your bank account. Flash Just Got an Upgrade According to Google’s official announcement , Gemini 3.6 Flash uses approximately 17% fewer output tokens than Gemini 3.5 Flash on the...

GOOGLE KEEPS DELAYING GEMINI 3.5 PRO—AND THE AI HYPE CLOCK IS TICKING After months of enormous expectations, carefully placed teasers and breathless predictions about Google’s next major AI model, users were told Gemini 3.5 Pro was almost ready. Google had already unveiled the model at its I/O conference in May. CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly said it would arrive “next month.” That meant June. Simple enough—or so we thought. JUNE CAME AND WENT Google spent May presenting Gemini 3.5 Pro as its next frontier model: smarter, more capable and better equipped to handle difficult coding projects, long-running tasks and autonomous AI...

In a stark new report, Google’s threat intelligence team has revealed that AI-assisted cyberattacks have escalated dramatically, transforming from experimental tools into a full-blown industrial operation in just three months. Criminal groups and state-linked actors from China, North Korea, and Russia are now routinely leveraging commercial AI models—including Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and OpenAI’s offerings—to discover vulnerabilities, generate malicious code, and scale attacks across software systems worldwide. The findings highlight AI’s dual-use nature: while large language models excel at coding and problem-solving, they are proving equally adept at exploiting weaknesses in everything from enterprise networks to critical infrastructure. Hackers use...

Google’s flagship developer conference, Google I/O 2026, is just days away, scheduled for May 19–20 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, with full livestream coverage at io.google. The event kicks off with the main Google Keynote on May 19 at 10 a.m. PT, followed by a Developer Keynote at 1:30 p.m. PT. This year’s gathering is expected to be heavily centered on artificial intelligence, continuing Google’s aggressive push in the space. A major highlight anticipated by analysts is a significant update to the Gemini model family — potentially the debut of Gemini 4.0 or a substantial 3.x upgrade. The...

With Google I/O 2026 just days away, speculation is intensifying that Google could unveil its next major artificial intelligence model: Gemini 3.5. While Google has not officially confirmed the existence of Gemini 3.5, a growing number of leaks, insider hints, backend discoveries, and industry reports have fueled expectations that the company is preparing a major AI announcement for its annual developer conference in May. Why Analysts Believe Gemini 3.5 Could Debut at I/O First, Google executives have recently teased that a “new Gemini model” is arriving “very, very soon,” according to reports following comments from Google Cloud leadership. At the...