Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Review: Fast, Cheap, and Capable
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers frontier-class benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of Pro - but a sluggish first-token response and preview-only status mean it's not for every workload.
AI Scrapers Are DDoSing Self-Hosted GitLab Servers
AI training crawlers from Anthropic, Google, and OVHcloud knocked a French national research institute's GitLab server offline for hours - nobody at CNRS's Institute of Complex Systems could work.
Google Funds AI Kids Studio Weeks After YouTube's Slop Crackdown
Google invested $1 million in Animaj, an AI animation studio making YouTube kids content, just seven weeks after YouTube CEO Neal Mohan declared war on AI slop - with early access to Veo, Gemini, and Imagen.
Antigravity Pro Users Hit Multi-Day Quota Lockouts
Google Antigravity Pro subscribers report 5-7 day lockouts on premium models after quota changes replaced five-hour refreshes with weekly caps and AI credit overages, sparking backlash across developer forums.
Google Launches Gemini Embedding 2 for Multimodal AI
Google's first natively multimodal embedding model maps text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into a single vector space - now in public preview via Gemini API and Vertex AI.
Google Rolls Out Gemini AI Agents to Pentagon's 3M Workers
The Pentagon launched Agent Designer on its GenAI.mil platform, letting 3 million Defense Department employees build custom Gemini-powered AI assistants without code.
