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Alphabet Inc's Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, because the company has been

Inside Google’s Gemini delay: coding stumbles, clashing teams and frustrated engineers

Read this exciting story from Los Angeles Times July 18, 2026 issue. Alphabet Inc.’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, because the company has been taking time to try to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding, according to people familiar with the matter.

Investors are looking to Wednesday’s earnings report to see progress

Alphabet raised its capital spending forecast to as much as $205bn (€179bn) this year, reigniting concerns about a lack of fiscal discipline in the race to dominate AI.

Shares fell as much as 5% in late trading on the guidance. It was a reminder that the full cost of Silicon Valley's AI rivalry is still largely unknown.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind unveiled a new artificial intelligence model for robots that allows humanoid machines to coordinate movements across their entire bodies, marking its latest effort to extend its Gemini AI technology to allow robots to reason, plan multi-step tasks and adapt to human environments.

Alphabet Inc's Google DeepMind unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model for robots that allows humanoid machines to coordinate movements

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is concentrating its artificial intelligence leadership at its Mountain View, California, headquarters to gain momentum in the accelerating race against Anthropic and OpenAI to build the world’s dominant AI models.