Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Google for the week ending July 24, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.
Category cover image prompt:
A giant chrome lowercase letter g shaped like an Afrofuturist mothership hovering in a deep cosmic purple-black sky, beaming a rainbow spotlight downward while ribbons of hot magenta, acid yellow, lime green, and electric blue swirl around its curve with starburst sparkles and glitter accents. The word GOOGLE arcs above in huge fat 1970s funk bubble letters with chrome fills and stacked multicolor drop shadows, centered composition with generous negative space, joyful psychedelic concert poster style.
This Week in Google News
Here’s a quick AI-generated summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5, based on the headlines and excerpts accompanying this week’s links:
- Gemini 3.6 Flash gets mixed reviews: Google pitched 3.6 Flash as smarter, cheaper and more token efficient than 3.5 Flash, and it became the default in Gemini Managed Agents. Early testers were less sold: one benchmark run scored it 56.1% on WeirdML, below 3.5 Flash, and another tester found it worse at object detection.
- Smaller and specialized models: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite launched as Google's smallest and fastest model, and is rolling out in Search. Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber stood out to one commentator as a cheaper specialized model that, called several times inside a coordinated system, can compete with much larger ones.
- Chips and what's next: TechCrunch and The Information both reported Google is working on a new chip meant to run Gemini more efficiently. Separately, Logan Kilpatrick said Google has started its most ambitious pre-training run yet, for Gemini 4.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Google
Huge if true. Rumor is that Anthropic is in talks to acquire Physical Intelligence. While Google DeepMind has been actively developing Gemini Robotics and OpenAI has been quietly building a dedicated robotics team for over a year, Anthropic has shown almost no public signs of”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2078708600827207829
Q2 was an amazing quarter, with our AI investments redefining what’s possible across every part of our business. Alphabet revenue grew 24% YoY and Google Cloud accelerated to 82% growth. We saw exciting momentum across the board from Search to YouTube to the Gemini app (which”
https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2080021408856293584
Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/google-is-working-on-a-new-ai-chip-designed-to-make-gemini-more-efficient/
Google Plans New ‘Frozen’ Chip to Run Its AI Models Much More Efficiently … The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-plans-new-frozen-chip-run-ai-models-efficiently
3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/
“Generate a fake, but believable, witty Churchill insult at a party and explain the context. It should be very clever and original” This time, I think GPT 5.6 Sol Pro wins, but Fable is good too, and you could argue for it taking the prize. Kimi & Gemini miss by a mile.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2080010641905955328
AI models pushing the frontier are a growing challenge for cybersecurity. A few weeks ago, I asked Demis what’s underhyped in AI right now and on his mind: “I’m very excited about this new agentic era and you can see us leaning into that” “But of course we’ve also gotta think”
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2079594573920419923
Gemini 3.6 Flash is officially the new default model in Gemini Managed Agents. Your agents will run on 3.6 Flash automatically with zero code changes. You can still route back to 3.5 Flash or use Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite anytime by setting the target model ID directly in your”
https://x.com/_philschmid/status/2079987692603945286
Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age – by Zvi Mowshowitz
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/demis-hassabis-on-the-new-coming
Gemini 3.6 Flash (high) scores 56.1% on WeirdML, worse than 3.5 Flash and way behind the frontier. It seems to have a higher peak performance than earlier flash models, but it completely breaks down on many of these tasks. What happens is it tries a too ambitious plan, and”
https://x.com/htihle/status/2079961406422544501
Save this if you work with local AI 10 Small Language Models (SLMs) you should know in 2026 ▪️ GPT-5.4 mini and nano ▪️ Gemma 4 ▪️ Ministral 3 ▪️ Nemotron 3 Nano ▪️ Microsoft Phi-4 ▪️ Tiny Aya ▪️ IBM Granite 4.1 ▪️ Qwen3 small models ▪️ SmolLM3 ▪️ North Mini Code We put”
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2078818495220126122
Google’s most interesting model release today is Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. (And no, not Gemini 3.6.) What’s particularly interesting about Flash Cyber is that it shows how a cheaper, specialized model, called several times inside a coordinated system, can compete with much larger”
https://x.com/Kseniase_/status/2079629968829505911
A nice aspect of our new Gemini 3.6 Flash model is that it is much more token efficient than our 3.5 Flash model. Here’s a side-by-side demonstration of that. Nice work by everyone who worked on this model and release!”
https://x.com/JeffDean/status/2079591562145870043
AI Infrastructure | Google Cloud
https://cloud.google.com/ai-infrastructure?e=48754805
Building for real work. See how our partners are integrating the latest Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite models into the tools you use every day. ↓”
https://x.com/googleaidevs/status/2079673732071907803
Feeling especially grateful to the @GoogleAIStudio team today ♥️ Seeing the level of commitment, ambition, and passion our team has brings a smile to my face everyday. Onwards!!”
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2079414304949055828
Gemini 3.6 Flash with the same shader test…”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2079812585268842759
Google preparing Skills and Gemini Live for web rollout
https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-preparing-skills-and-gemini-live-for-web-rollout/
Great momentum from @GoogleDeepMind with today’s launch of three new Gemini models. Excited to start rolling out Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite in Search today. It offers stronger instruction following and better understands user intent, so conversations flow much more seamlessly.”
https://x.com/rmstein/status/2079683273962492388
I am very excited about Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, our smallest and fastest Gemini model! – it is more intelligent in many cases than Gemini 3 – same cost and smarter than Gemini 2.5 Flash (which is approaching end of life) – also out paces 3.1 Flash-Lite on most use cases!”
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2079591301365084176
Say hello to Gemini 3.6 Flash, designed to be higher intelligence, more token efficient, and with a new lower price, based directly on developer feedback! 3.6 Flash continues our progress towards models that are deeply usable in real world scenarios!”
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2079590123038204255
The first ATLAS report on AI
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/research/understanding-the-ai-economy/
We just landed some big infra upgrades for the Gemini Batch API: – p95 latency decreased by 80% -p99 latency decreased by 68% – batch success rate is now >99.998% – 98% reduction in batch expirations – added support for partial batches great work by the team to land this!!”
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2079367218438324367
gemini who? 🏎️💨”
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2079707749412483104
I’m both impressed and disappointed by Gemini 3.6 Flash faster, cheaper, and uses fewer tokens then Gemini 3.5 Flash. noticeably worse at object detection. often returns one general box instead of several precise ones. feels lazy. prompt: detect banana tree ↓ deep dive”
https://x.com/skalskip92/status/2079983426996699443
We have started our most ambitious pre-training run yet, for Gemini 4, and are excited by the progress : )”
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2079594867161022817
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