Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026, Beating Its Own Pro Model on Agentic and Coding Benchmarks
Google's new efficiency flagship outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on most evals while running 4x faster and costing 40% less.
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Google's new efficiency flagship outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on most evals while running 4x faster and costing 40% less.
Red Hat used its May 12 Summit keynote to take Red Hat Desktop with Podman Desktop and isolated AI agent sandboxing to general availability, and to preview Red Hat AI 3.4 with vLLM speculative decoding, Model-as-a-Service, MCP tooling, and an agent evaluation hub.
Microsoft's new Autonomous Code Security team disclosed MDASH alongside its May 2026 Patch Tuesday, crediting the multi-model agentic scanner with 16 Windows vulnerabilities — four of them critical RCEs — and an 88.45 percent score on CyberGym.
The New York AI startup, used by 35,000 finance professionals at firms like Rothschild and Jefferies, brought total funding past $300 million to scale Felix, its autonomous deal-workflow agent.
GitLab's April 16 release graduates a security agent that opens ready-to-merge fixes for confirmed SAST findings, ships a beta CI pipeline agent and a generally available analytics agent, and gives administrators enforceable monthly caps on Duo Agent Platform credits.
Roblox unveiled an agentic upgrade to its Studio Assistant on April 16, adding a Planning Mode, natural-language Mesh Generation, code-driven Procedural Models, and a playtesting agent that reads logs and uses inputs to find bugs.
At Cloud Next 2026, Google overhauled its AI cloud stack: Vertex AI becomes the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a new Agentic Data Cloud offers cross-cloud data access via Apache Iceberg, and the Virgo Network delivers 47 Pb/s to connect 134,000-chip training clusters.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 arrives as a ground-up retrain with a 922K-token context window, 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, and two-tier pricing starting at $5/$30 per million tokens.
Anthropic's new cloud service handles sandboxing, state, and permissions so companies can ship production agents in weeks instead of months.
OpenAI's April 16 Codex update adds background computer use on Mac, parallel multi-agent execution, persistent memory, and 111 plugin integrations, escalating the agentic coding tool race with Anthropic.
Adobe says its new CX Enterprise Coworker will help large brands automate and personalize customer-experience workflows across its own stack and partner AI platforms.
Equinix has launched Fabric Intelligence, an AI-native operational layer for its 4,400-customer interconnection platform that exposes network provisioning through natural language agents and MCP servers.