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Louvre disrupted as staff vote to extend strike for second day
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You can try Google’s new Gemini 3 Flash AI model today for free – it’s even in Search’s AI Mode
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Plans for New Orleans attack thwarted after ex-marine arrested
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Why young people are the big losers in Europe’s dysfunctional housing system
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Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search’s AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity’s Last Exam vs. GPT-5.2’s 34.5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search’s AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity’s Last Exam vs. GPT-5.2’s 34.5% — Google today released its fast and cheap Gemin…