Google Introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026: A Faster and Cheaper Model for AI Agents and Coding

With Google’s annual I/O gala in full force this week, Gemini and AI are taking center stage and being presented as the future of practically everything. Here in the land of Android, though, Gemini’s been quietly competing for attention with another relatively youthful on-demand assistant — and that’s a far less in-your-face feature called Circle to Search. Circle to Search is essentially an instant portal to the even less widely known Android Google Lens setup, which has been serving up genuinely practical real-world advantages for Android device-owners in the know for years now — since way back before the word “Gemini” had any Googley meaning. And whether you also adore Gemini or find it to be more hype than help, it’s well worth your while to dig into Circle to Search — or maybe just revisit its potential, if you’d perhaps explored it briefly early on and then forgotten about it — to see what it can do for you. Here, specifically, are 10 simple but supremely useful ways Circle to Se

Alibaba has unveiled a new AI processor built specifically for AI agents, pairing the chip announcement with a multi-year silicon roadmap and a new large language model, signalling that the company is building an integrated AI stack, not just filling a gap left by US export controls. The Zhenwu M890, developed by Alibaba’s semiconductor subsidiary […] The post Alibaba is designing AI chips around agents, and that changes what the race is actually about appeared first on AI News.

Firefox chief Ajit Varma explains how Mozilla is betting on privacy, optional AI tools, and its nonprofit structure to compete against browsers from Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

OpenAI has announced two complementary measures to help users identify AI-generated images, partnering with Google on technology that addresses one of the most pressing challenges in the era of generative AI. The company is adopting C2PA, an open standard developed by a non-profit coalition founded in 2021, which embeds readable metadata signals identifying an image […]

Google used its annual I/O developer conference on Tuesday to unveil the most sweeping transformation of its product lineup in years, placing agentic artificial intelligence at the centre of everything from search and shopping to coding, smart glasses, and the physical world. The centrepiece of the event was Gemini 3.5 Flash, described by DeepMind chief […]

I trust Claude Code. Back in March, I wrote about why I pity the developers who haven’t yet jumped on the agentic coding bandwagon. I also pity the developers just starting out, who will never quite understand the power that they now have at their fingertips. But most of all, I really pity the developers who refuse to use agentic development tools because they don’t trust AI agents.  I understand that saying I trust Claude Code is a controversial statement. I know that the coding agent isn’t perfect, that it will make mistakes, that it will “hallucinate,” and that it will not always do what you want in the way you want it done.  But you can fix that. Start slow But guess what? The same is true of every human developer on the planet. When you hire a new developer, especially a brand-new junior developer, they are going to make mistakes. They are going to misunderstand, and they are going to miss things that they shouldn’t. Of course, you’ll take the time to teach this person, show the

Google Gemini’s next-generation family offering: Gemini 3.5 is here!  Gemini 3.5 Flash combines frontier intelligence with real-world action and supports high-speed agentic workflows, coding, and multimodal reasoning while maintaining the low latency expected from the Flash series. With Gemini 3.5 Pro, slated to be released in the next month, let’s take a look at the […] The post Gemini 3.5 Flash: frontier intelligence with speed appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Global laws are still trailing the technology when it comes to determining who is liable if an artificial intelligence (AI) agent is hacked or makes a faulty purchase. Gracie Lin says that with legal frameworks still being drafted, accountability needs to be built into the infrastructure from day one, not bolted on later. The Impasse […]