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Google's Gemini Spark is a 24/7 AI agent in the Gemini app that keeps goals and runs scheduled tasks in the background. It hosts skills and needs a paid plan.
Google's new workhorse Flash is a model-string swap for anyone on AI Gateway, discounted through 31 December 2026. The claim worth testing is reduced tool-calling loop failures, not benchmark deltas.
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Google will automatically convert Gemini Gems into skills from November 17 for personal accounts, with Workspace businesses following in March 2027. Anyone who shares Gems with colleagues needs a re-sharing plan timed to their own account's date.
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Google will retire Gemini's Gems on November 17, 2026, and auto-migrate each one to a cross-task "skill." Anyone who built a custom assistant keeps the work but loses the sidebar and picks it with a slash instead.
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Google says Spark keeps a goal and runs scheduled work for days or weeks with the app shut. The supplied materials never say what it can do, what it cannot, or who can reach it.
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Google has published a price for frontier-tier access aimed at technical staff, and the figure a manager has to defend is per person per month, on a plan whose usage limits are quoted as multiples of a Pro allowance the company has not spelled out.
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Google put the same 3.7 Flash behind its API, Vertex, Gemini Enterprise and AI Mode in Search on August 13. The payoff is fewer evaluations to run, not a new capability tier.
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The free year of AI Pro bundles Gemini, Spark, Workspace, 5TB of storage and Health Premium. The number that matters is what happens on day 366.
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Google's budget tier now handles the summarize-and-compact work that fills agent invoices. The 75-cent introductory input rate lapses on December 31, 2026, and then input goes back to $1.50.
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