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Google I/O 2026 announced major developer updates including Gemini 3.5 Flash (4x faster), Antigravity 2.0 CLI for agent development, and AI Studio mobile app, marking the shift to an agentic era.
Jeremy Howard criticizes Gemini Flash 3.5 for being trained to maximize eval scores rather than being genuinely helpful to humans, despite its impressive intelligence and speed.
Google demonstrated Gemini Flash model achieving 600-1400 tokens per second on TPU 8i, rivaling Groq's inference speeds.
The author open-sourced a background removal tool built with open source tech, now also usable as a headless MCP service for AI agents.
A novel memory retrieval system inspired by episodic memory theory achieves state-of-the-art 96.4% top-50 accuracy on the LongMemEval benchmark using Gemini Flash, outperforming larger Pro-based baselines by isolating retrieval quality from model capability.