Google ran the same play and shipped Flash before Pro. Except the $0.75/M that took over the timeline isn't a low price: the official table shows it's the 3.6 Flash price with a 50% discount through December 31, 2026, and the bill doubles on January 1. Here are both numbers, the real benchmarks (FrontierCode 43.6%, AutomationBench 30.4%), what breaks when you migrate from 3.6, and the data point the release leaves out: hallucination went up from 55.6% to 64.5%.
Gemini 3.5 Pro still isn't out, and every week there's a new date going around. I separated what Google has confirmed in writing from what's just a leak with no reproducible data, with the timeline of delays since I/O in May. And I built a 20-line watcher on the Gemini API models endpoint that pings you the minute gemini-3.5-pro shows up, plus a model fallback in Laravel so the switch becomes one line of .env.
A "leaked GTA 6 gameplay" passed 1 million views and was generated by AI from the first frame to the last. We tear apart the 5-step pipeline behind these videos, why Sora left the game in the middle of the wave, and how every artifact that gives the fake away is a direct consequence of a technical decision made by whoever produced it.