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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 Dev/2026-06-18Advanced

Keeping Nightly Batches Alive After the Gemini CLI Stops Responding: A google-genai SDK Fallback

On June 18 the Gemini CLI stops answering requests. Here is a small fallback harness that probes whether the CLI can still respond and quietly reroutes unattended batch jobs to the google-genai SDK, built from my own automation.

◈ Gemini API/2026-06-12Intermediate

Designing a Nightly Batch That Survives a Gemini API Outage — Three Layers of Defense

This week's widespread Gemini outage cost my nightly batch three hours of work. Here is how I rebuilt it with three layers of defense: classified retries, a model fallback chain, graceful degradation, plus idempotency keys and a catch-up queue.

◈ Gemini API/2026-04-22Advanced

Resilient Gemini API Services in Production — Circuit Breakers, Bulkheads, and Fallback Models That Keep Your App Alive

A production-ready resilience playbook for Gemini API: circuit breakers, bulkheads, jittered retries, and model fallback chains — with working Python so your service stays up even when the upstream doesn't.