●TTS — Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS are GA as of September 22. Voice replication works on Flash only; Flash-Lite returns a 400●2.5 — Access to the 2.5 models is now limited to accounts with prior active usage (September 18). Not a deprecation: new projects should start on 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash●9/30 — Two days until gemini-omni-flash-preview shuts down, and gemini-2.5-flash-image follows on October 2. In practice the replacement for the latter is gemini-3.1-flash-image●AUTH — Reports continue of Gemini CLI sign-in failing only for Workspace Enterprise accounts while personal accounts work. Isolating the two is the current focus●NEW — Moving to 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS meant re-picking the voice for our guidance audio●429 — A brand-new project shows Free tier yet returns 429 with limit: 0. Here is what to check in the first hour●TTS — Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS are GA as of September 22. Voice replication works on Flash only; Flash-Lite returns a 400●2.5 — Access to the 2.5 models is now limited to accounts with prior active usage (September 18). Not a deprecation: new projects should start on 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash●9/30 — Two days until gemini-omni-flash-preview shuts down, and gemini-2.5-flash-image follows on October 2. In practice the replacement for the latter is gemini-3.1-flash-image●AUTH — Reports continue of Gemini CLI sign-in failing only for Workspace Enterprise accounts while personal accounts work. Isolating the two is the current focus●NEW — Moving to 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS meant re-picking the voice for our guidance audio●429 — A brand-new project shows Free tier yet returns 429 with limit: 0. Here is what to check in the first hour

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◈ Gemini API/2026-09-04Intermediate

Screen Loop Seam Clicks With Numbers Before You Hand the Audio to Gemini

An ambient loop that clicks only at the wrap point. Here is the numeric prescreen I run before sending anything to audio understanding, why an absolute threshold fails, and how AAC encoding quietly rebuilt the seam I had just repaired.

◈ Gemini API/2026-06-16Advanced

Before You Let a Managed Agent Ship: Designing Your Own Acceptance Gate

Let the public-preview Managed Agents generate files and broken artifacts will flow straight into production. Here is how to build a verification gate that artifacts must pass before you accept them, with runnable Python and a rejection-feedback loop.