Google Skipped Its Flagship and Started Building the Next One. Three Flash Models and Gemini 4 Pretraining.

Google shipped three Gemini Flash models yesterday — 3.6 Flash with Computer Use built in, 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30/M tokens, and a restricted cybersecurity variant — then confirmed Gemini 3.5 Pro still isn't shipping and announced Gemini 4 pretraining has started. We cover what shipped, what it means for the flagship race, Iran's claimed missile strike on Amazon's Bahrain data center, and Satya Nadella calling Fable 5 "editorially controlled."

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