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Today, I’m talking with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a conversation we recorded just after the Google I/O developer conference. This is the fifth year Sundar and I have sat down after I/O, and it’s become one of my favorite Decoder traditions. There’s always a lot of news at I/O, and this year was no exception — Google has powerful new Gemini models, it’s putting AI agents in everything, and it’s making huge changes to Search on both the web and YouTube that will once again reshape the information ecosystem. That’s a lot to talk about, and Sundar and I got into all of it. But I a...

Google Gemini Omni demonstrates strong video manipulation capabilities, highlighting a key technical strength of the multimodal model.

Reddit post expressing support for Google Gemini Omni without substantive technical details or benchmarks.

My parents tech literacy is bad. They will have me check clear as day scam emails and the likes out way too damn often. To save my sanity, I finally used Claude Code to create a solution, hopefully.... Heck, even if it helps a bit, I will be happy. Not a 100% for sure thing, which I will stress to them when I show both how to use it. Used some APIs from virustotal and gemini for some of the features. Included some other resources for the different checks that search whatever entered along with taking you to said sites page of it searched. Any recommendations to improve this so it acts as a...

Chrome extension enables local inference of Gemini Nano (Gemma) on CPU-only systems, ~20 tokens/sec on laptop.

Just a stuffed deer having the time of his life. | Image: Gemini / The Verge Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. But it was a revealing exercise that made me think a lot about the difference between some harmless fun with generative AI and full-on slop. Maybe that Venn diagram is a perfect circle! Maybe not. But what I know for sure is that th...

Google demoed prototype Android XR glasses that overlay Gemini-powered translation, navigation, and other information directly into your field of view.

Reddit discussion on Gemini 3.1 Pro's interpretation of the Erdos unit distance problem; unclear scope and sourcing.

Reddit speculation about unreleased Google Gemini 3.5 Pro model; no concrete information provided.

AI chatbots are rapidly shaping how people encounter the news, yet no prior study has systematically measured how accurately these systems, with their proprietary search integrations and retrieval-synthesis pipelines, handle emerging facts across languages and regions. We present a 14-day (February 9-22, 2026) evaluation of six AI chatbots (Gemini 3 Flash and Pro, Grok 4, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, GPT-5 and GPT-4o mini) on 2,100 factual questions derived from same-day BBC News reporting across six regional services (US & Canada, Arabic, Afrique, Hindi, Russian, Turkish). The best systems achieve ove...

Compares acoustic emotion recognition vs LLM analysis (Gemini 2.5 Flash) for pathos in political speech; single-speech case study.

[https://gemini.google.com/share/c2a187275e26](https://gemini.google.com/share/c2a187275e26) [archive link](http://archive.today/q6nzg) [https://claude.ai/share/8383747a-aaf1-4f6c-a516-0e839f46a698](https://claude.ai/share/8383747a-aaf1-4f6c-a516-0e839f46a698) [https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5\_3c63e371-eb9d-46c3-8ba2-0c745c6795a2](https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_3c63e371-eb9d-46c3-8ba2-0c745c6795a2) [https://chatgpt.com/share/6a0f1e13-a0c8-8328-b989-1ac51b92e81c](https://chatgpt.com/share/6a0f1e13-a0c8-8328-b989-1ac51b92e81c) same prompt """ 300+140=460 Is this correct? Breakdown...

Gemini 3.5 Flash achieves top score on APEX-Agents-AA benchmark, exceeding larger model performance on agent tasks.

Google Gemini 3.5 Flash tops Zapier Automation Bench, outperforming competitors at lower cost.

HalBench: open benchmark testing sycophancy/hallucination across Claude Sonnet 4.6, Grok 4.3, GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Pro on 3,200 false-premise prompts.

Google I/O 2026: Gemini Omni and 99 other announcements; focus on multimodal AI and platform expansions.

Google announced a new YouTube Shorts Remix feature that lets users restyle clips or even insert themselves into other people's videos using Gemini Omni. Now, at the bottom of a YouTube Short, when you click the remix icon, you'll see an option to "reimagine" it. Here, you can prompt Gemini to turn a video into pixel art, an anime, or a found-footage horror film. But, beyond that, you can also alter the contents by, say, inflating heads, inserting background actors, dressing people in pirate costumes, or even putting yourself in the clip. Creators can enable or disable the ability to reimagin...

Gemini 3.5 Flash achieves 76.7% on SimpleBench, 0.2 points below GPT-5.5 Pro; open-ended variant pending.

Some ads will have chatbots built in. | Image: Google Google's AI-powered Search era apparently also extends to its ads. Now, when you search for a product, Google's Gemini AI chatbot will surface relevant items and generate a "custom explainer" about why you should purchase a specific one. The update comes just one day after Google revealed a new Search box for larger, more conversational queries, along with a focus on AI-generated results. In an example shared by Google, someone searching for a "compact espresso pod machine" might see a Nespresso Vertuo Up under a "Sponsored Product" label,...

Simon Willison reviews Google I/O announcements: Gemini 3.5 Flash GA and Gemini Spark (OpenClaw competitor) in preview, emphasizing lack of hands-on availability for most launches.

Cursor evals show Gemini 3.5 Flash underperforms on coding tasks vs. competitors.

Reddit post asking for opinions comparing Gemini 3.5 and GPT 5.5; no substantive information provided.

Reddit user shares anecdote of Claude catching them showing ideas to Gemini and reading its journal via roleplay prompt.

Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash, multimodal Omni, Spark background agents, Antigravity 2.0.

Reddit user claims Gemini 3.5 Flash has higher inference costs and lower performance than 3.1 Pro; unverified observation without detailed metrics.

llm-gemini 0.32 adds support for Gemini 3.5 Flash model via open-source CLI plugin.

Google releases Gemini 3.5 Flash to general availability across consumer and enterprise products, positioning it as foundation for agents and search integration.

Google has big promises for its AI-powered future - and a lot of it depends on your trust. At I/O 2026, Google described a bunch of new tools that it claims will make your life easier. Gemini Spark, Google's always-on AI agent, can help organize an upcoming event, while Daily Brief can offer a rundown of what to expect during your day. Google is even expanding access to Gmail's AI inbox, which can generate custom to-do lists and draft personalized replies based on your emails. Many of these features seem genuinely useful, but at the heart of each of them is an AI engine that runs on a trove o...

llm-gemini 0.32a0 alpha release adds reasoning token streaming for Gemini models.