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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/2026-06-13Intermediate

Reading a Night of Logs in Three Minutes — Building My Own Daily Brief for Ops With the Gemini API

Inspired by Gemini's Daily Brief, I built a pipeline that turns overnight operations logs into one morning email: collect, summarize with response_schema, render, deliver — with measured token counts and a fallback that kept working through the June outage.

◈ Gemini API/2026-06-12Advanced

Retiring the Midnight Polling Loop — Rebuilding My Gemini Batch Monitoring Around Webhooks

A working log of migrating Gemini Batch API completion monitoring from 60-second polling to event-driven webhooks: static vs dynamic, signature verification, and real numbers.

◉ Gemini Basics/2026-05-02Intermediate

When to Rewrite a Gemini Gems Custom Instruction — Symptoms of Decay and a Safe Migration Path

Gemini Gems custom instructions degrade over time. Here are the symptoms that mean it's time to rewrite, the underlying causes, and a four-step migration path that keeps quality stable during the swap.

◈ Gemini API/2026-04-02Advanced

How I Cut My Gemini API Bill from ¥52,000 to ¥8,400 a Month — Caching, Model Routing, and the Batch API

A working record of cutting my Gemini API bill from ¥52,000 to ¥8,400 a month. Covers implicit vs. explicit caching, Flash/Pro routing rules, migrating to the Batch API, and a usage_metadata logging setup — with the production code I actually run.