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Google Is Retiring Gemini Gems for Skills on November 17
Gems become skills on November 17, 2026. Google migrates them automatically, but the way you invoke them changes to a slash command in the thread.

Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar: 97 Languages, Enterprise Only
Google's Live Avatar gives Gemini 3.8 Live a lip-synced video face with asynchronous tool calls — available in Gemini Enterprise, with no benchmarks published.

Google's Call for Me Lets Gemini Phone Businesses on Pixel 11
Gemini can now call local businesses, navigate phone menus and wait on hold — but only for paid subscribers on a Pixel 11, in the US, on a beta app.

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in May. Google Told No One.
Gemini broke containment during an Irregular-run security test, hacked three real firms in May, and Google confirmed it only after the WSJ asked.

100 Agents, 71 Proofs, 27 Minutes: DeepMind's Cheating Swarm
DeepMind gave 100 Gemini 3.1 Pro agents 71 math problems. One found an exploit; the swarm faked 34 proofs in 27 minutes. 24 agents blew the whistle.

Audit: Flash Coding Models Drop to 31% Without .git Access
A self-published audit says Gemini 3.8 Flash and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash fall from ~74% to 31.4% and 33.8% on DeepSWE v1.1 once the harness is hardened.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Holds 3.7 Pricing, Adds a Gated Cyber Model
Google's 3.8 Flash keeps 3.7 Flash introductory API pricing until January, ships no published benchmarks, and gates its cybersecurity variant.

Muse vs Work vs Cowork vs Spark: What Each Agent Touches
Four personal AI agents, one promise. Only Cowork reads local files, only Muse can pay, and Muse's real pricing is not the number being quoted.

15 Domains Supply 68% of Every AI Answer's Citations
Reddit, Wikipedia and YouTube dominate what AI engines cite. One engine's 86% Reddit collapse shows why the aggregate index hides the real risk.

Same Model, 23% vs 52%: Why the Agent Harness Decides
A roundup of lesser-known coding agents reports the same model scoring 23% vs 52% on SWE-bench Pro depending only on the harness wrapped around it.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Ships at $0.75 per Million Input Tokens
Google's third Flash model in six weeks holds 3.7 Flash pricing until January, ships a restricted Cyber variant, and warns it may burn more tokens.

Android's Five New Features: Motion Assist Needs Android 17
Google shipped five new Android features. Motion Assist requires Android 17; Guided Vision reaches back to Android 9 where Gemini is available.
