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Google Admits Gemini Was Eating Your Quota Alive — and Finally Does Something About It
Google has fixed several bugs in its Gemini app that were causing usage quotas to be consumed too quickly, such as one or two Omni videos depleting an entire quota and complex requests to the 3.1 Pro model with large files burning through too much allowance. As part of the fixes, Ultra members now receive double the Omni video generations, a cap has been placed on quota consumption per prompt, and failed requests are no longer charged. Additional improvements include free Flash Lite requests, more detailed consumption displays for complex features like Deep Research, and persistent model selection across sessions.
Google I/O 2026: Quadrillions of Tokens, Billions in Capex, and an Agent That Plans Your Block Party
At Google I/O 2026, CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted the company's massive AI infrastructure growth, noting token processing has surged to 3.2 quadrillion per month, supported by a capital expenditure budget of approximately $180–190 billion for the year. Google announced several new AI products, including Gemini 3.5 Flash (a faster, cheaper frontier model), Gemini Omni (a multimodal model combining video, image, and physics simulation), and Gemini Spark (a 24/7 personal AI agent capable of handling background tasks). The company also expanded its AI watermarking technology SynthID and deepened AI integration across Search, Chrome, and its app ecosystem, signalling an aggressive push toward always-on, agentic AI experiences.
Google Ships Gemini 3.5 Flash, an Agentic Assistant Called Spark, and a Do-Everything Model Nobody Fully Understands Yet
Google has announced Gemini 3.5 Flash a faster and more efficient AI model designed to make complex agentic tasks viable at scale, boasting nearly 300 tokens per second while matching the benchmark performance of larger, slower frontier models. Alongside it, Gemini Spark is Google's first dedicated AI agent, running 24/7 in the cloud to autonomously handle tasks across Google's ecosystem — such as monitoring emails, generating summaries, and building slide decks — and will initially be available to AI Ultra subscribers. Google also unveiled Gemini Omni, a new multimodal model intended to eventually handle any type of input and output (text, image, video, audio) from a single unified model, though for now it is launching with video generation only, replacing Veo in Google's products.