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●ROBOTICS — The ER 1.6 preview that shut down on August 31 does have a successor. Gemini Robotics ER 2 is in public preview, in both standard and streaming variants●VIDEO — ER 2 judges success and failure from live video rather than still snapshots, which is what lets it catch spills, slips, and misalignments while a task is still running●DEADLINE — Next up is September 30, when gemini-omni-flash-preview is retired. The target is gemini-omni-1.1-flash, GA since August 27, and there are now under four weeks left●APIKEY — Every remaining standard API key, restricted ones included, stops working during September. The replacement is an auth key bound to a Google Cloud service account●PRICE — Gemini 3.7 Flash keeps its introductory $0.75/$3.75 per 1M through December 31, then moves to $1.50/$7.50 on January 1, 2027. Any estimate crossing the year needs both figures●AUDIO — Gemini 3.5 Transcribe handles language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing of up to 1,000 terms●ROBOTICS — The ER 1.6 preview that shut down on August 31 does have a successor. Gemini Robotics ER 2 is in public preview, in both standard and streaming variants●VIDEO — ER 2 judges success and failure from live video rather than still snapshots, which is what lets it catch spills, slips, and misalignments while a task is still running●DEADLINE — Next up is September 30, when gemini-omni-flash-preview is retired. The target is gemini-omni-1.1-flash, GA since August 27, and there are now under four weeks left●APIKEY — Every remaining standard API key, restricted ones included, stops working during September. The replacement is an auth key bound to a Google Cloud service account●PRICE — Gemini 3.7 Flash keeps its introductory $0.75/$3.75 per 1M through December 31, then moves to $1.50/$7.50 on January 1, 2027. Any estimate crossing the year needs both figures●AUDIO — Gemini 3.5 Transcribe handles language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing of up to 1,000 terms
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◈ Gemini API/2026-07-05Advanced

Collapsing Video Understanding into One Native Call with Omni Flash

How I replaced an ffmpeg frame-extraction pipeline (7-9 calls per clip) with a single native Omni Flash call, the measured differences, and the boundaries where keeping frame sampling still wins.

◈ Gemini API/2026-06-28Advanced

Read Video with Timestamps in the Gemini API: Pull Just the Scene You Need

Hunting for 'where was that step?' in a screen recording or app demo is a chore. Here is how to use Gemini API video understanding to pull just the right scene with timestamps, plus a design that keeps tokens down with FPS and resolution.

◈ Gemini API/2026-06-03Advanced

Reconciling Orphaned Gemini Files API Uploads Across a Fleet of Apps

Files API uploads quietly expire after 48 hours. Here's how I keep orphaned files and quota under control across six apps, using reconciliation against my own database and a scheduled cleanup job — written up as production notes from running wallpaper apps.

◈ Gemini API/2026-05-19Advanced

Designing an Image Pipeline with Gemini Files API and Cloudflare R2 — Notes from Running a Wallpaper App

Notes from rebuilding the image processing pipeline of a wallpaper app around Gemini Files API and Cloudflare R2. Covers the 48-hour TTL, idempotent retries, and cost monitoring, with implementation code and 30 days of numbers.