Google unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash and new AI agents at I/O 2026

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Introducing Gemini Omni

Deepmind reinvents mouse cursor for AI era with pointer engineering

Pointer Engineering: Deepmind wants to turn the mouse cursor into the key variable in context engineering. The article From Prompt to Pointer Engineering: Deepmind tries to reinvent the mouse cursor for the AI era…

Microsoft Releases Fara1.5: A Family of Browser Computer-Use Agents

Microsoft released Fara1.5, a family of browser computer-use agents (4B/9B/27B) that reportedly outperform OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on the Online-Mind2Web benchmark.

Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro launch, disappoints I/O attendees

Charles Rollet / Business Insider: Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month; attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they expected — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai…

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Google is launching its own version of OpenClaw

Google is launching its own take on OpenClaw, the buzzy AI agent platform that caused a stir in the tech industry earlier this year. Announced during Google I/O 2026, Gemini Spark is an always-on AI agent that can…

Google I/O 2026 keynote: live updates on Gemini and Android

Abner Li / 9to5Google: A live blog of the Google I/O 2026 keynote, where the company is set to announce the “latest AI breakthroughs and updates” in Gemini, Android, and more — I/O 2026 kicks off today as Google's…

Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action

Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is now generally available

Google announced Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is generally available on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, positioning it for ultra-low latency, high-volume agentic workloads such as tool calling and orchestration.

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Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, emphasizing dynamic thinking levels for adjustable compute, with notable metrics like $0.25/M input, $1.50/M output, 1432 Elo on LMArena, and 2.5× faster…

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation

Voice translations preserve speaker's tone, pacing, pitch—with SynthID watermarks for security.

Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

Google Search is getting its biggest changes ever

Google Search is entering the next phase of its AI evolution. During Google I/O 2026, the company showed off a reimagined search box that makes it easier to flow between AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that…

Gemini 3.5 Flash on AI Gateway

Gemini 3.5 Flash is now available on .Vercel AI Gateway This model has improved coding proficiency and parallel agentic execution loops versus previous Flash versions. It also brings improvements to core reasoning…

Poetiq's system boosts every LLM tested on LiveCodeBench Pro

Poetiq's Meta-System automatically builds a model-agnostic harness that improved every LLM tested on LiveCodeBench Pro without fine-tuning, boosting Gemini 3.1 Pro from 78.6% to 90.9% and GPT 5.5 High to 93.9%.

Google to unveil new Gemini model at I/O conference

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos — Sources say that Google plans to…

Google announces Googlebook, its AI-first laptop to ...

Google announced Googlebook, an AI-first laptop built for Gemini to replace Chromebooks.

Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research

Introducing Co-Scientist, a collaborative AI partner built with Gemini to help researchers accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents

Google Deepmind has made the Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents. It replaces the old generateContent API and uses a simplified schema with typed steps instead of role-based structures…

Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate delivers real-time voice translation across 70+ languages

Google releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, an audio model for real-time translation across more than 70 languages. The system translates continuously without waiting for a sentence to end and claims to preserve the…

Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity come to Google NotebookLM

NotebookLM is getting a big upgrade, but it's only for AI Ultra and enterprise accounts right now.

I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era

The Google I/O 2026 event introduced the 'agentic Gemini era,' featuring new models like Gemini 3.1 Pro and Lyria 3 Pro.

Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I’ve had yet

Spark is Google’s new agentic answer for everything. According to every product demo from the last four years, planning a trip is a killer use case for AI. Just tell it where you're going, they all promise, and your…

AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded zero crime, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683 (Jake Angelo/Fortune)

Jake Angelo / Fortune: AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded zero crime, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683 — Imagine a world run by AI…

Adds GPT-5.5, DeepSeek V4, and Gemini 3.5 Flash models

Added Add GPT-5.5 support to SAP AI Core. Add DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro models. Add Gemini 3.5 Flash to Gemini and Vertex providers. Add `/lg-task` URI webhook integration for LG dashboard flows. Fixed Fix Vertex AI…

Google updates Flow with Gemini Omni support and custom tool creation

Macy Meyer / CNET: Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more — Google Flow's family of products gets…

Google launches Gemini for Science to aid researchers

Jackson Chen / Engadget: Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature — Three new features will be…

Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery

A collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.