●CHAT — Tomorrow, August 26, Google Chat becomes the Ask Gemini hub: searching, drafting, catching up on threads, and managing tasks and events all land in one place with Workspace context intact●SEARCH — AI Mode in Google Search is now sometimes served by Gemini 3.7 Flash. Response characteristics on the search side shift with it, which is worth checking if you watch your traffic mix●STUDIO — Developer logs now cover the Interactions API. Supported calls can be traced from the AI Studio dashboard, which makes triage easier before you have logging of your own●TTS — gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview now supports streaming speech generation through streamGenerateContent, so playback can start before generation finishes●ROBOTICS — gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down on August 31, six days out. The ER 2 line succeeds it with spatial reasoning, multi-step tool orchestration, and multi-robot coordination●STUDENT — Gemini added a student hub, study notebooks, interactive visualizations, and Deep Research in Gemini Live, with a free year of Google AI plans for eligible students●CHAT — Tomorrow, August 26, Google Chat becomes the Ask Gemini hub: searching, drafting, catching up on threads, and managing tasks and events all land in one place with Workspace context intact●SEARCH — AI Mode in Google Search is now sometimes served by Gemini 3.7 Flash. Response characteristics on the search side shift with it, which is worth checking if you watch your traffic mix●STUDIO — Developer logs now cover the Interactions API. Supported calls can be traced from the AI Studio dashboard, which makes triage easier before you have logging of your own●TTS — gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview now supports streaming speech generation through streamGenerateContent, so playback can start before generation finishes●ROBOTICS — gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down on August 31, six days out. The ER 2 line succeeds it with spatial reasoning, multi-step tool orchestration, and multi-robot coordination●STUDENT — Gemini added a student hub, study notebooks, interactive visualizations, and Deep Research in Gemini Live, with a free year of Google AI plans for eligible students