Google's Gemini Lineup Grows But Its Flagship Pro Model Is Still Missing, Karpathy Joins Anthropic
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 22nd, 2026. Google released three new Gemini models, 3.6 Flash for coding and agent work, 3.5 Flash-Lite for high volume tasks, and 3.5 Flash Cyber for security, all cheaper and faster than what they replace, but the flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains missing in action, now months behind its own May target after falling short of internal coding goals, even as Google DeepMind's product lead says it's being tested with partners and a new Gemini 4 pre-training run has already begun. The gap is becoming impossible to ignore, in that same stretch…
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