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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 variantsVIDEO — 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 runningDEADLINE — 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 leftAPIKEY — Every remaining standard API key, restricted ones included, stops working during September. The replacement is an auth key bound to a Google Cloud service accountPRICE — 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 figuresAUDIO — Gemini 3.5 Transcribe handles language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing of up to 1,000 termsROBOTICS — 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 variantsVIDEO — 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 runningDEADLINE — 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 leftAPIKEY — Every remaining standard API key, restricted ones included, stops working during September. The replacement is an auth key bound to a Google Cloud service accountPRICE — 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 figuresAUDIO — 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 Advanced/2026-06-04Intermediate

Pre-Screening Wallpaper App Submissions with Gemini Vision: A Two-Week Field Memo

Before submitting a new batch of wallpapers, I spent two weeks running Gemini's image understanding as a first-pass filter for store review risk. What it caught, what it missed, and where a human still has to decide.

Gemini Advanced/2026-05-20Intermediate

Two Months With Gemini 2.5 Pro's 1M Context: What It's Actually Good (and Bad) At

An honest two-month review of using Gemini 2.5 Pro's 1M-token long context window on real work — organizing 12 years of indie-developer notes, cross-checking large MDX archives, and learning where short prompts still beat long ones.

Gemini Basics/2026-04-20Intermediate

Six Months with Gemini Deep Research: An Honest Review of What Actually Works

An honest, personal review of Gemini Deep Research after six months of daily use. What it does well, where it falls short, and how to get the most out of it.