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Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.

There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to larger, more expensive AI systems, such as the one offered by Anthropic's Mythos. The cybersecurity model […]

Measured 2026-07-21 on vllm/vllm-tpu:nightly (vLLM 0.23.1rc1.dev1076), a GCE flex-start ct6e-standard-1t (one TPU v6e chip, 32 GB HBM) in europe-west4-a. TL;DR The plain google/gemma-4-E2B-it serves well on one v6e chip; none of its QAT siblings load at all. The 2-billion-parameter "efficient" Gemma 4 sustains 213 tok/s for a single user with a 16 ms first token, scales to ~2,200 output tok/s across concurrent streams, handles OpenAI-style function calling — including parallel calls and refusal to hallucinate calls — without a miss, and answers simple vision questions accurately in ~200 ms. The QAT variants are a different story: the int4 compressed-tensors export hits an unimplemented quantization path, and the bf16 QAT export trips a loader bug — the Gemma 4 implementation demands per-layer norms that E2B's KV-sharing architecture legitimately doesn't have. Filed upstream as tpu-inference #3225 . One capability coupling to know about: with a reasoning parser configured, schema enforcement only engages when thinking is enabled — thinking-off requests sail through unconstrained with a 200 status. Config interaction, not TPU limitation; details below. 1. Getting to a serving endpoint The host is a GCE flex-start VM — capacity granted on request, billed until deleted, hard-stopped at a 4-hour max run, $1.35/chip-hour. A startup script installs Docker, pulls vllm/vllm-tpu:nightly , fetches the Hugging Face token from Secret Manager via the metadata server, and launches vLLM. Boot timeline: VM RUNNING at t+0 (200 GB boot disk — the 10 GB default cannot hold the vLLM image) → Docker installed ~t+1:00 → image pulled ~t+6:00 → weights downloaded, XLA compiled, health green ~t+8:30. Two environment quirks worth knowing: Direct SSH silently times out on some networks even when the VPC allows tcp:22 — the block is upstream of the VPC. IAP tunneling ( gcloud compute ssh --tunnel-through-iap ) rides over HTTPS and works; so does tunneling the API port with gcloud compute start-

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

Introduction At recent technology conferences, one topic has caught my attention: every year, more health-focused devices, sensors, and applications appear. Smartwatches track heart rate, smart scales measure body data, glucose monitors record blood sugar levels, and apps help users track sleep or nutrition. Today, the amount of information we can collect about our own bodies is enormous. This article was inspired by an everyday experience with my father, Herminio ❤️ . Whenever he has a medical appointment, he opens the Apple Health app and shows the doctor the evolution of his heart rate, physical activity, sleep hours, and other recorded metrics. While watching this, I kept asking myself the same question: are we really making the most of all this information? Showing a chart during a medical appointment can be useful, but the data could provide much more value if it were automatically processed, summarized, and transformed into a structured health report. For this reason in this project, I use Gemini to transform previously calculated metrics into a clear and organized summary. The LLM does not analyze all the raw records or perform the main calculations. The pipeline processes the data, calculates the indicators, and generates the visualizations, while the model acts as a support layer for building the report narrative. The goal is not to create a medical application or replace professional judgment. Instead, the purpose is to build a prototype that shows how Apple Health exports, deterministic data processing, visualizations, and an LLM can be combined to generate automated reports. This project was developed using simulated data from three patients, so the complete pipeline can be reproduced without using real clinical information. ✨ Why Gemini? This project uses an LLM to transform previously processed metrics into a structured narrative that can be reviewed more easily by a healthcare professional. I chose Gemini for practical reasons: 〰️ I was already famil

Tres semanas después de publicar un sitemap dinámico que orgullosamente listaba cada perfil de miembro, Google Search Console me dijo que esos perfiles eran un error. No con un error de plano, sino con dos veredictos más callados: Soft 404 y Duplicada sin canónica seleccionada por el usuario . Esta es la historia de leer ese reporte, separar el ruido de la única señal real, y el arreglo, que fue quitar páginas del índice, no agregarlas. TL;DR El reporte "Por qué las páginas no se indexan" de Google es ~80% benigno por diseño. Aprende a triarlo o vas a perseguir fantasmas. Mis perfiles de miembros salieron marcados como Soft 404 (uno) y Duplicada sin canónica seleccionada por el usuario (otro). La misma causa raíz: el perfil público anónimo es deliberadamente flaco, un esqueleto con el username, todo lo demás es PII oculta a quien no ha iniciado sesión. Flaco + casi idéntico entre usuarios se lee como "página vacía" y "clúster de duplicados". No puedes arreglar un Soft 404 enriqueciendo una página que por contrato no tienes permitido enriquecer. Así que el arreglo es noindex,follow en la captura, más sacar las URLs del sitemap (un sitemap que lista una URL noindex es una autocontradicción que Google va a señalar). El modelo mental en una línea: una página que a propósito no tiene contenido para los visitantes anónimos no tiene nada que hacer en un índice construido para visitantes anónimos. El reporte que lo empezó todo El reporte de cobertura del índice, ordenado por número de páginas: Razón Fuente Páginas Descubierta, actualmente sin indexar Sistemas de Google 55 Duplicada sin canónica seleccionada por el usuario Sitio web 9 Página alternativa con etiqueta canónica correcta Sitio web 3 Página con redirección Sitio web 2 Rastreada, actualmente sin indexar Sistemas de Google 2 Soft 404 Sitio web 1 Excluida por etiqueta 'noindex' Sitio web 1 No encontrada (404) Sitio web 1 Bloqueada por acceso prohibido (403) Sitio web 1 Noventa y tantas URLs "sin indexar". El instint

Google's AlphaEvolve reached general availability on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, turning the DeepMind research project into an evolutionary code optimization service. Evaluators run client-side so code never leaves the customer's infrastructure. Klarna doubled ML training throughput; practitioners note it only works where a measurable evaluation function exists. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Running out of API quota in the middle of a production deployment is a frustrating rite of passage. If you are using the Google Custom Search API, you have likely hit that 100 free daily queries wall. Once you do, your application throws a 403 Quota Exceeded error, stalling your features unless you link a billing card and risk uncapped charges of $5 per 1,000 queries. In my experience, relying on Google's default limits without safeguards is a major liability. Here is how I protect my cloud budget, stretch the free tier using Redis, and transition to scalable alternatives when 100 queries are no longer enough. Step 1: Enforce a Hard Billing Cap in GCP Never rely on email alerts alone; they do not stop API requests. If a recursive loop in your code or a malicious bot targets your search endpoint, your credit card will bear the brunt. To set up a hard stop: Log into your Google Cloud Console . Navigate to APIs & Services > Enabled APIs & Services . Select Custom Search API , then click the Quotas tab. Locate Queries per day and click the edit pencil icon. Set your maximum limit to 95 (not 100). Pro Tip: This 5-query cushion gives you a safe buffer for emergency local debugging without triggering paid overages. Step 2: Implement Redis Caching Middleware Over 40% of search queries in typical web applications are repetitive. Implementing a Redis database to cache these searches can cut your API consumption by up to 80%. Here is a simple Python middleware pattern to normalize queries and cache them with a 24-hour Time-To-Live (TTL): import redis import requests # Connect to local Redis instance cache = redis . Redis ( host = ' localhost ' , port = 6379 , db = 0 , decode_responses = True ) def fetch_search_results ( query , api_key , search_engine_id ): # Normalize input to avoid duplicate cache keys normalized_query = query . strip (). lower () cache_key = f " search:cache: { normalized_query } " # 1. Check local cache first cached_data = cache . get ( cache_key ) if cach

What Changed Protocol Buffers (protobuf), Google's widely adopted data interchange format, has undergone several recent updates focusing on build system integration, compiler support, and internal development processes. Key changes include the introduction of Bzlmod support for Bazel 8+, updates to the Bazel CI presubmit matrix, and the removal of older GCC versions from GitHub Actions testing in favor of GCC 10. Specifically, the project now explicitly supports Bazel with Bzlmod for Bazel 8 and newer versions, allowing users to specify protobuf as a dependency in their MODULE.bazel file. This modernizes the Bazel integration, offering an alternative to the traditional WORKSPACE approach. Concurrently, the .bazelci configuration has been updated to remove macOS (Intel Macs) from the presubmit matrix, revise Debian and Ubuntu distributions, and incorporate Bazel 9.x testing. In terms of compiler support, the .github workflow for C++ testing has been refined. GitHub Actions matrix entries testing GCC versions prior to GCC 10 (specifically 7.5, 9.1, and 9.5) have been removed, and a GCC 10.4 test has been added. This aligns the testing infrastructure with the project's current support matrix, ensuring compatibility with more recent compiler versions. Internal refactoring also occurred, such as the extraction of OptionInterpreter to option_interpreter.h and option_interpreter.cc from descriptor_builder.h and descriptor.cc respectively. Furthermore, the C# protobuf implementation saw a version update to 37.0-dev, indicating ongoing development across various language bindings. Technical Details The integration of Bzlmod for Bazel 8+ signifies a move towards a more modular and efficient dependency management system within the Bazel ecosystem. Developers can now declare a dependency on protobuf in their MODULE.bazel file, with an option to override the repository name for compatibility with existing WORKSPACE setups. This streamlines dependency resolution and build graph m

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Mystic Leaks suggests that the Pixel 11a will return to featuring a flagship-grade processor with the Tensor G6. Rather than the Tensor G5 found in the Pixel 10 and 10 Pro, the Pixel 10a shipped with the previous generation Tensor G4. That was a huge disappointment since, typically, the Pixel a lineup kept the modern […]

Now, if you want to, you can use Google's 3D emoji in your own creations. The company shared some details about how it went about designing the little pictograms and why, as part of World Emoji Day on Friday. Things you might not necessarily worry about in a 2D illustration suddenly become very important when […]

Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.

In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.

The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.

Your customers would rather message you on WhatsApp than fill in a contact form. That's fine at ten conversations a day. At a hundred, messages get missed, nobody knows which rep is on which deal, and at month-end somebody rebuilds the commission sheet by hand and gets it wrong. The usual answer is a $49–$499/month WhatsApp SaaS platform, priced per seat, with your customer data living in someone else's database. This post is the other answer: the same workflow on Google Sheets + Apps Script — and the one piece I see teams get wrong every single time, with the code to fix it. Where DIY WhatsApp automation actually breaks It isn't the messaging. Wiring a WhatsApp webhook into a sheet is a couple of hours of work, and I've written that build up separately — the webhook, the AI reply, and the lock that stops two reps chasing the same lead are all in Build a WhatsApp Sales Inbox in Google Sheets . I won't repeat it here. The part that breaks is the commission math . Someone writes =IF(revenue>10000, revenue*0.08, revenue*0.05) into a column, and three things kill it: A single sale spans two tiers — the formula charges the whole amount at one rate. The tiers change in July , and now every historical row recalculates at the new rate. A customer refunds in August on a sale from June, and nobody can unwind it without breaking the audit trail. So that's what this post builds: a tiered commission engine that survives rule changes and refunds. 1. Put the tiers in a table, never in a formula This is the whole trick. Make a Commission Rules tab, one row per rule: rule_id | rep_id | effective_from | effective_to | tier_1_cap | tier_1_pct | | | | | tier_2_cap | tier_2_pct | tier_3_pct --------+----------+----------------+--------------+------------+------------+----------- R1 | ALL | 2026-01-01 | | 10000 | 0.05 | | | | | 50000 | 0.08 | 0.10 R2 | rep_ayse | 2026-06-01 | | 10000 | 0.06 | | | | | 50000 | 0.09 | 0.12 rep_id is either a specific rep or ALL (the house default). Percenta

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of devices worldwide. The demand is hardly surprising. It may look like a defeat on paper for Google, which has spent years resisting exactly this kind of access, but it is a regulatory […]