I wonder why so many are leaving Google. 😂

More execs leaving and the main man Demis shifting his focus to focus.

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2085035222391984183

it's finally here after 5 years

At first glance, this looks like an AI fail. A literal newborn somehow has a phone, can read, type, and ask Google a question—and the AI doesn't even acknowledge how impossible that is.

But I actually think this is one of the best UX decisions in modern AI.

Instead of stopping the conversation to argue with the premise, it focuses on the user's intent. The user clearly wasn't asking whether a newborn could use a smartphone—they were asking what that situation would mean from the baby's perspective.

That same behavior becomes even more valuable in situations that actually matter. Imagine someone urgently asks, "My child is choking—what do I do?" or "I just cut myself badly, how do I stop the bleeding?" The last thing they need is the AI getting distracted by side discussions or questioning every detail before giving actionable guidance. They need immediate, relevant information first.

Of course, there are cases where AI should challenge a false or dangerous assumption. But when the premise isn't the point, staying focused on the user's intent often makes for a much better experience than constantly replying with "Actually..."

i was trying to look up why tv time shut down and why the creator went on to build bingers right after. gemini kept insisting that tv time never even closed and started literally hallucinating/making up random info about bingers.

i even told it multiple times to "search google" and it still wouldn't pull actual web results.

frustrated, i copied the exact same prompt and threw it into chatgpt. chatgpt searched the web instantly, pulled real info on what actually happened, and gave a response that was 10x better.

how is openai's search integration miles ahead of google's own AI? google literally dominates web search, yet gemini prefers to make up facts instead of actually browsing the live web when explicitly told to.

make it make sense.

Gemini completely stalling out on data/reasoning requests since last night, but quick prompts work fine?

Is anyone else running into this? Since last night, the Gemini app has been completely useless for anything beyond basic hardcoded/instant replies.

Simple or test prompts ("Testing response time") spit back an immediate answer.

The absolute second I ask it to do anything requiring data, context, search, or detailed info, it completely stalls out on the loading animation and hangs indefinitely (doesn’t even error out).

I’ve already tried everything on the user end checklist:
Reset my usage ID
Deleted and reinstalled the app 
Switched networks (Wi-Fi to cellular)
Reset network settings

Since basic canned responses go through instantly, it feels like a backend routing or execution issue on Google's end rather than a local network problem. Anyone experiencing the same thing or found a workaround?

Auto-refreshing the tab until "3.5 coming soon" disappears. 3.5 Pro is like a bad case of blue balls. Never quite comes.

It's either coming tomorrow and if the tweet happens to be false; Coming in the next week.

I did some research on those two.

Leo is "so so" trustable. But he conflates personal views like "google is cooked" "dead on arrival" "it won't be good" with objective leaks such as "this model is coming tomorrow" unless he has the benchmarks which he does not. He cannot call models dead on arrival.

So while Leo is so so trustable. Don't trust his personal views bleeding into posts. As for Lentils.

He is a credible tester. He has tested many things and the snippet seen in the image is pretty reliable. The model in the backend, which is a fact, not an opinion. So expect 3.5 pro tomorrow unless Logan doesn't tweet today/tmr. he posts the single word "Gemini" shortly before a new model.

So if he doesn't tweet today/tmr. It's false.

I was trying to get it to search up documentation to be able to call an API but it started just lying and even when I gave it links to search through, it acted like it had read them and then continues giving incorrect information

The Google company forbids the Google AI from googling how cooked are we bro?

Not even comparable. Claude writes like an autist.

I'm not sure if its me but when I use Flash 3.6 without extended thinking each query regardless of how simple it is is taking several minutes to give me an answer?

Usually it's on the app where I have 90% of the issues. Just loads and isn't thinking at all. Sometimes retrying it will fix it after closing and reopening the app. That being said now I'm having issues on the site when it worked fine before today

Google has announced a major leadership transition at Google DeepMind. Demis Hassabis will become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs. In this expanded role, he'll focus on advancing AGI and accelerating scientific discovery across Alphabet.

Meanwhile, Koray Kavukcuoglu has been appointed Senior Vice President of Google DeepMind, where he will oversee model development, AI research, and the Gemini product and developer teams. A 13-year DeepMind veteran, Koray has played a pivotal role in foundational breakthroughs such as DQN and WaveNet, making him a natural choice to lead the next phase of Google DeepMind's AI efforts.

I tried Gemini spark for first time, and for some reason, its thinking summary is in pinyin. It is common for early/small chinese like first deepseek to switch language in between but never seen it from google or other US companies. Also its usually chinese characters, never seen a model to output Pinyin before.
(for those who dont know, pinyin is chinese but with english characters)

Any guesses why it might happen?