Is Google Gemini In Trouble?

AI NEWS: Gemini 3.6 Flash is here: More efficient, less expensive but Gemini 3.5 Pro is still testing with partners & very much not here. Is Google Gemini slowly getting cooked?
Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell break down Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and the missing Pro model. Plus Sam Altman's reported Washington briefing on OpenAI's next wave of AI models, Sunday Robotics' Memo folding laundry with a company-reported 99.1% success rate, and District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's 13-minute AI film NIGHTBORNE.
Also: Fable 5's proposed counterexample to the 87-year-old Jacobian Conjecture, Codex and ChatGPT computer use, Notch warming to vibe coding, a whale-shaped Moby-Dick crossword, Gaussian splats, Bambi the Destroyer and Wizard Brains in the return of AI SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!.
THE MODELS ARE GETTING WEIRDER. THE LAUNDRY IS FINALLY GETTING FOLDED.
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Official Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber announcement
blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-resea…
Gemini 3.6 Flash on Frontend Arena
x.com/arena/status/2079594271045455947
Logan Kilpatrick on Gemini 4 training and Gemini 3.5 Pro
x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/207959486716102281…
Report of a new Google AI chip for Gemini
x.com/MTSlive/status/2079198478849413390?s=20
Fable 5 and the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
x.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566?s=20
Context on the Jacobian Conjecture result
x.com/jdlichtman/status/2079066717762863249?s=20
Andrew Curran on Altman's planned Washington briefing
x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2079604797838397495…
Bloomberg: Altman to brief U.S. officials on OpenAI's next wave of models
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/openai-…
Sunday Robotics' ACT-2 laundry demonstration
youtu.be/d7I1wj0Gkik?si=8E44Kmpqa7Gazfuh
Three hours of Memo folding laundry
youtu.be/a2HZyURUE_o?si=dT_WiDVcVEHGj9qn
Sunday Robotics' technical ACT-2 post
sunday.ai/blog/act-2-preview
Neill Blomkamp's AI film NIGHTBORNE
youtu.be/8Wbtt2JxP7g?si=Q8WMwCB_cIXvxxJt
Notch comes around on vibe coding
x.com/notch/status/2079507573523300534?s=20
Riley Goodside's Fable 5 Moby-Dick whale crossword
x.com/goodside/status/2078649724710658309?s=20
Gaussian splat of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral
vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral
Bambi the Destroyer, Episode 5
reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1uto3js/bambi_th…
Wizard Brains game
x.com/wizardbrainz/status/2078860897259548946?…

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