Google's newest Flash model delivers 280+ tokens per second but burns through so many tokens on agent tasks that total costs exceed even the pricier Pro model. The price hike follows similar moves by Anthropic and OpenAI, signaling a broader industry shift away from cheap AI.
Google unveiled a completely restructured AI subscription lineup at I/O 2026. The new three-tier system replaces daily prompt limits with consumption-based billing and bundles services like YouTube Premium and cloud storage.
Google unveiled its biggest AI update at I/O 2026, including Gemini 3.5 Flash (four times faster than competitors), a cloud-based personal agent called Gemini Spark, and Gemini Omni for multimodal generation. The company claims enterprises could save over a billion dollars annually by shifting workloads to the new models.
Google now lets users manually mark news outlets they want to see more often in search results. The company claims this supports quality journalism. The reality is more complicated: Google already knows which sources are reliable, making a manual tool unnecessary if better results were the actual goal.
