GOOGLE SET TO RELEASE GEMINI 3.8 FLASH THIS WEEK: WSJ
Google $GOOGL is expected to release Gemini 3.8 Flash, internally called “Skimaki,” as soon as Wednesday, with a major focus on coding.
In internal head-to-head tests inside Google’s coding tool Jetski, engineers reportedly preferred 3.8 Flash over Anthropic’s Opus model.
Flash is designed to be smaller, cheaper and faster than Google’s flagship Pro models.
Google has also scrapped internal Gemini 3.5 Pro candidates that weren’t sufficiently better than Flash, while Gemini 4 has performed well in pretraining evaluations but still needs to complete posttraining.
.@SecScottBessent: "We have zero tolerance. We are going to economically asphyxiate this regime."
"My job is to make sure that they want to have a deal, and they will want to have one."
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump is reportedly looking at limited strikes on Iran, according to U.S. officials.
The aim is to stop Tehran putting its radar, air defenses and anti-ship missiles back up around the Strait of Hormuz.
CENTCOM drew up the plan. Hegseth backed it.
The White House had been leaning the other way. Then Iranian missiles landed on U.S. bases in Jordan, and leaning the other way became a harder position to hold.
Trump said today the U.S. will respond, and will hit them hard.
"Limited" is doing a lot of work here. It always is, right up until it isn't.
Source: @DeItaone, Al-Monitor, Axios / Writer: Oliver
BREAKING: President Trump tells @TreyYingst the U.S. will respond to Iran’s overnight attack on American forces in Jordan, saying, “We’re going to hit them hard.”
Trump said U.S. air defenses intercepted all but one Iranian missile, which was allowed to pass because it was not expected to hit anything significant.
He also said Iran is eager to meet but questioned whether Tehran can be trusted to make a deal as U.S. sanctions continue to take effect.