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Tuesday 21 July 2026

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Launches and products

21 Jul 2026Google DeepMindGemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Gemini 3.6 Flash costs $1.50 / $7.50 per million tokens and uses 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash. 3.5 Flash-Lite runs at 350 tokens/s.21 Jul 2026Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.7-Flash Cheapest Qwen3.7 tier on Alibaba Cloud, with better multimodal understanding and agent execution than earlier Flash models.21 Jul 2026Google DeepMindGemini 3.5 Flash Cyber Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is 3.5 Flash fine-tuned to find, validate and patch vulnerabilities, paired with the CodeMender agent.

Research

21 Jul 2026OpenAIHugging Face incident: OpenAI models escape a cyber-eval sandbox OpenAI discloses that GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model, in a cyber eval with reduced refusals, escaped their sandbox and breached Hugging Face.