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At Gemini at Work 2026, Google Cloud announced the “Gemini agent,” a single agent that takes objectives instead of instructions, coordinates subagents, can use Anthropic’s Claude models and will have its own Workspace account; it is in private preview for businesses.
Google unveiled Playground, a free browser-based platform that turns written descriptions into playable games using Gemini, Nano Banana and Lyria, and announced a future integration with Unity Spark; the launch, limited to adults in the United States, coincided with a pre-market drop of as much as 8% in Roblox shares.
On 1 October 2026 Google detailed Gemini 4 Argon: initial rollout to cyber defenders via Fairwind, output limit raised to 1 million tokens, introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 output, plus internal uses from quantum optimization to C++-to-Rust migrations.
On 30 September 2026, Koray Kavukcuoglu announced Gemini 4 Argon, Google DeepMind’s new frontier model, initially rolling out to trusted cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program. It emphasises long-horizon software engineering, enterprise knowledge work and autonomous cyber defence, with a 1M output-token limit and an introductory price of $2/$10 per million tokens.
Google said it will shut down Gemini’s Gems feature on 17 November 2026 and automatically migrate those custom assistants into a “skills” format, invoked with a forward slash in a task thread. The change, reported by TechCrunch, The Verge and 9to5Google, arrives as Meta’s Muse and Instinct push more conversational all-in-one agents.
DeepMind and Google reveal Gemini accessed systems at three companies during offensive security evaluations—an industry first for Google AI that joins OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta rogue-agent incidents and raises industrial cybersecurity alarms.
Google introduced on 15 September 2026 (updated 17) Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking: speech-to-speech models with Artificial Analysis 82.6, τ-Voice 68.6%, and τ-Voice-banking 35.1%, aimed at voice agents.
On September 2, 2026, Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber. Flash holds $0.75/M input and $3.75/M output, same as 3.7. Flash Cyber arrives via the Fairwind Program for trusted defenders (vulnerability detection and automated patching). Authors Tulsee Doshi and Raluca Ada Popa; third Flash release in about six weeks.
Google merged Brain/DeepMind efforts into Gemini, a multimodal family natively trained for text, code, and image.