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Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash on May 19, 2026. The fast, lower-cost tier scored 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and, by Google’s own measure, generates output about 4 times faster than other frontier models. Flash is available today across the Gemini app, Search, and the API. Gemini 3.5 Pro is confirmed for next month.

What is Gemini 3.5 Flash?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google’s new fast, lower-cost tier of the Gemini 3.5 family. It was announced and made generally available on May 19, 2026, according to the Google announcement post . The “Flash” name has always meant a model tuned for speed and price.

Cursor Composer 2.5 is an incremental upgrade over Composer 2, not a new model. Both run on Moonshot’s open-source Kimi K2.5 checkpoint, so the entire difference is training. Composer 2.5 learned from 25x more synthetic coding tasks plus targeted reinforcement learning. Standard pricing holds at $0.50 per million input tokens.

What is Cursor Composer 2.5?

Composer 2.5 is Cursor’s in-house coding model and the direct successor to Composer 2. It runs inside the Cursor editor, which slots into a crowded field of AI coding tools . The model is built for sustained work, not just quick one-shot answers.

Siddhartha Ahuja’s Blender MCP is the open-source project that puts Claude at the Blender keyboard. A Model Context Protocol server talks to a Blender add-on over a TCP socket on port 9876. From there, Claude can build shapes, paint materials, read the scene, pull free assets from Poly Haven , make meshes through Hyper3D Rodin , import Sketchfab models, and run any Python inside Blender. The repo has 19,694 stars, an MIT license, and sits at version 1.5.5. Similar add-ons exist for Unreal, Godot, Maya, and Figma. This one has the biggest crowd and the deepest tool list by far.

The Claude Agent SDK is the Claude Code engine stripped down to a library. Same agent loop, same built-in tools, same context handling, but you call it from your own Python or TypeScript code instead of the CLI. If you’ve used Claude Code to read files, run shell commands, search codebases, and edit code, the SDK points that same machinery at any problem you want. No human needs to sit in the loop.

Yes, you can point Claude Code at a 541,909-row retail dataset and walk away with a six-sheet Excel workbook, professional charts, and a parameterized report script, without opening a Python file or debugging a single line of code. The complete workflow takes roughly 15 to 20 minutes from raw data to finished output.

The goal is real delegation. Claude handles setup, cleaning, math, and charts. You focus on the right questions to ask.

Anthropic ships claude-code-action , an official GitHub Action that runs the full Claude Code runtime inside your CI/CD pipeline. It reviews pull requests, builds features from issues when someone types @claude, writes tests, updates docs, and drafts release notes. It also respects your repo’s CLAUDE.md coding rules. The runtime runs on a GitHub Actions runner, with tool use, file reads, and multi-step reasoning.

It ships with four auth backends: Anthropic API, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. It also has a sister claude-code-security-review action for vuln scans, native GitLab CI/CD support, and real deployments. Deriv runs it across 700+ repos, handling 100+ PRs per week. So this has moved past the demo stage. Teams now wire it into merge gates next to linters and test suites.