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Google calls it the biggest Search change in over 25 years, rolled out through mid-June. Search answers the query directly and builds a page around the answer rather than returning a list. For anyone shipping content, this is a structural hit to click-through economics. The answer layer absorbs the query, and the source page stops getting the visit. Plan your discovery strategy around being the cited source, not the destination. (ALM Corp)
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As of July 10, Google's default search returns an AI-written answer with inline citations, and the ten blue links (the norm since ~1998) now appear below the fold or not at all (Tech Times). Google reports publisher clicks down 58%. If your product or content depends on organi...
Willison's August 13 release adds Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite plus gemini-embedding-2 and -001, rebuilding on LLM 0.32's structured message and streaming APIs so reasoning, tool calls and results emit as typed stream events while preserving Gemini thought si...
Google DeepMind shipped computer use as a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash on June 24, collapsing the standalone Oct-2025 computer-use model into the same model you already use for function calling, Search grounding, and Maps. One agent sees a screen, clicks, types, and l...
"Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking" argues Google quietly shelved 3.5 Pro, which industry chatter placed at roughly Opus 4.5 level, shipping Gemini 3.6 Flash as a bridge the authors call worse than Muse Spark 1.2, Grok 4.5, and tier-1 Chinese open-source models. The hard num...
GA and stable for production across the Gemini API, Enterprise, and Antigravity, and now the default in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search globally. Google pitches frontier-level intelligence at ~4x the speed of comparable models, priced at $1.50/$9 per 1M tokens, 1M-token c...
Google launched agentic video understanding across Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite (Google). Instead of scanning a video start to finish at a fixed sample rate, the model runs an internal loop deciding what to watch, at what speed, and through which channel: fra...
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