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PRICE — Gemini 3.6 Flash drops output tokens from $9.00 to $7.50 per million while input holds at $1.50, so verbose workloads feel the difference mostDEFAULT — The Antigravity agent in Managed Agents now runs on 3.6 Flash by default. Setups that never pinned a model may behave differentlyVERBOSE — 3.6 Flash answers the developer complaint that 3.5 Flash rambled, tightening token efficiency and agentic planning at the same timeGROK — The Grok 4.1 model family on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is deprecated and shuts down on August 20CLASSROOM — From August 10, students of all ages in K-12 and higher education can use Gemini in Classroom where admins have granted access, turning materials into flashcards and quizzesPIXEL — Google's August 12 event is expected to fill in the Pixel 11 hardware details along with AI features across the wider ecosystemPRICE — Gemini 3.6 Flash drops output tokens from $9.00 to $7.50 per million while input holds at $1.50, so verbose workloads feel the difference mostDEFAULT — The Antigravity agent in Managed Agents now runs on 3.6 Flash by default. Setups that never pinned a model may behave differentlyVERBOSE — 3.6 Flash answers the developer complaint that 3.5 Flash rambled, tightening token efficiency and agentic planning at the same timeGROK — The Grok 4.1 model family on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is deprecated and shuts down on August 20CLASSROOM — From August 10, students of all ages in K-12 and higher education can use Gemini in Classroom where admins have granted access, turning materials into flashcards and quizzesPIXEL — Google's August 12 event is expected to fill in the Pixel 11 hardware details along with AI features across the wider ecosystem
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Green Tests, Dead Production — How Recorded Fixtures Hide a Model Retirement, and a Freshness Gate to Catch It

A test suite that replays recorded API responses will sail straight past a model retirement. I reproduce the failure in a minimal setup and build a cassette freshness gate, with measured overhead.