Gemini 3.5 Flash gets built-in computer use
Google made computer use a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash. Developers can now build agents that click, type and inspect browser, mobile and desktop interfaces through Gemini API or Agent Platform.
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All news →Gemini 3.5 Pro reportedly slips to July
Gemini 3.5 Pro has reportedly slipped from June to July while Google gathers tester feedback. The delay matters because agentic coding has become the frontier-model battleground.
DiffusionGemma tests a faster path for open-weight text models
Google’s experimental DiffusionGemma trades some polish for speed, testing whether open-weight text models can feel more interactive on local and dedicated GPUs.
Google proposes Open Knowledge Format for agent context
Google Cloud introduced OKF, a markdown-and-YAML format for portable agent context. It targets data teams that need AI agents to share metadata without a proprietary catalog lock-in.
DiffusionGemma tests a faster path for open-weight text models
Google’s experimental DiffusionGemma trades some polish for speed, testing whether open-weight text models can feel more interactive on local and dedicated GPUs.
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate turns real-time speech translation into a developer surface
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is rolling into the Live API, AI Studio, Translate, and Meet, with 70+ language detection and SynthID-watermarked audio.
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All essays →How to use this book
Reading paths through the four Parts, where the runnable code lives, and how to handle the inevitable model-name drift.
What a language model actually is
Tokens, autoregressive generation, attention, and why the abstraction matters before the API does.