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Google's developer blog says agents ignored inline TODO bug references in 94% of encounters, and that unprompted detours to them added 70% more steps per session.

Google says Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is generally available with clips up to 15 seconds and 720p video at $0.07 per second; three Artificial Analysis boards read November 9 list 1.1, not 1.2.

Gemini CLI v0.64.0, published October 13, lists fixes for folder-trust reporting in headless mode, serialized and atomic file writes, and recovery of its state file from a backup.

Google lists Nano Banana 2.1 as generally available in the Gemini API from October 6, with 1:8 and 8:1 aspect ratios and image output at $30 per million tokens.

Google's Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program stopped accepting product vulnerability reports as of October 1, 2026, with an update promised in Q1 2027.

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly plan a self-regulatory body for frontier AI covering pre-release testing, incident reporting and auditor certification, targeting a launch by year-end or early 2027.

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, which it says leads on 12 of 18 disclosed benchmarks. Access begins with trusted cyber defenders, with introductory pricing of $2 and $10 per million tokens.

Google rolled out Pics, an AI image generator and editor built natively into Workspace, powered by its Nano Banana model and aimed at Canva- and Adobe Express-style design tasks.

A Google engineer's commit adds an experimental enable_flatpak build flag to Chromium's Linux installer code, explicitly not a commitment to official Flatpak support.

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash posts sharp coding and web-dev benchmark gains at half its predecessor's launch price, and lands in GitHub Copilot immediately.

A Google study finds AI agents that first write a semi-formal specification before generating tests catch 9.8 percentage points more real bugs than agents that generate tests directly.

HEIR compiles pre-trained AI models to run inference on fully homomorphic encrypted data, letting servers process private data without decrypting it.