Google AI news: Gemini and DeepMind updates
Stories about Google's AI work, including Gemini and the Google DeepMind lab, newest first.
UK regulator proposes AI assistants like ChatGPT on Google's choice screens, with a prompt every year
Android and Chrome users in the UK would be asked every year which search service they want, and an AI assistant that passes the CMA's tests could be the answer.
Gemini models explained: 3.8 Flash vs Flash-Lite vs 3.1 Pro, with every release date
Google has shipped six Flash and Flash-Lite models since May, but the newest Pro you can call is still a February preview.
“Usage limit reached for all Pro models.” in Gemini CLI: what ran out and what to do
What Gemini CLI means by “Usage limit reached for all Pro models.”, how it differs from the “high demand” and “exhausted your capacity” messages, the daily request limits per plan, and what to try when /stats says you have quota left.
“429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED” from the Gemini API: which quota you hit and how to tell
What the Gemini API's “429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED” and “You exceeded your current quota” mean, how to read the metric line under them, what limit: 0 tells you, and when retrying is pointless.
Claude Code vs Codex vs Gemini CLI: which plan you need and which models you get
One of the three stopped serving individual subscribers in June, but its own docs still advertise the free tier it closed.
Google's family AI agent has its own Google account, and up to six people share it
You cc it on the email from your kid's school, and it fills in the permission slip.
Google's Home MCP lets Claude and other agents turn your lights off, but not unlock doors
Google's setup page tells you to warn the other people in your house that your agent can now read their home data.
The AI standards body Hassabis proposes could coordinate a slowdown among the frontier labs
Google DeepMind launched an essay site the same day, and the proposal arrived on it under a note saying it isn't Google's official view.
Google's new Gemini voice models talk you through a task while the tool calls run.
Google's own numbers put the better of the two at 35.1% on the hardest voice-agent benchmark it cites.
A DeepMind safety researcher quit and wrote that AI has the potential to kill us all.
Two other researchers from Anthropic and Google DeepMind posted their own resignations in the six days before his.
Gemini PROHIBITED_CONTENT: what the API means by it and what to do
What PROHIBITED_CONTENT means in the Gemini API, the difference between seeing it as a block reason and as a finish reason, why safety settings can't switch it off, and the labels that look like it.
Models in these stories
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Gemini 3 Flash Preview
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Gemini 3.5 Pro
- Gemini 3.6 Flash