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Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro

On Tuesday, Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google’s “workhorse model” that promises improved capabilities in coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance while reducing token usage by up to 17%, making it cheaper than its predecessor 3.5 Flash.

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is the most cost-effective model in the class, and 3.5 Flash Cyber is a specialized model that was fine-tuned for finding and fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities at a decent price point. This model will be exclusively available to governments and trusted partners as part of a limited access pilot program, according to Google.

Google says the focus on these releases is to deliver efficiency, latency, and reliability to customers that are building AI agents at scale.

The launch is notable not just for what Google shipped — cheaper, faster models optimized for coding, efficiency, and cybersecurity — but for what...

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Is the All-New Range Rover GT Stepping on Jaguar’s Tail?

In what looks to be a radical departure from its existing lineup, Range Rover has confirmed an entirely new fifth vehicle: the Range Rover GT, an all-electric grand tourer built on the company's Electrified Modular Architecture (EMA), the same platform that will underpin other midsized cars for the

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Deezer Is Cracking Down on Fake Music and Fake Streams

The siege on slop music is in full force. French music streaming service Deezer said Tuesday it will remove AI-generated songs used for fraudulent streams after determining that more than half the songs uploaded to its site are generated by artificial intelligence. Deezer said it will also remove tracks that

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OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace

OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that ended in a breach of the open AI research platform HuggingFace. Describing the incident as “unprecedented,” OpenAI said its AI models broke out of a sealed testing environment last week and hacked into

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Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab competes

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Is the All-New Range Rover GT Stepping on Jaguar’s Tail?

Deezer Is Cracking Down on Fake Music and Fake Streams

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace

Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size