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AX (agentexecutor.io) is a Kubernetes-native control plane for AI agent workloads: declare tasks as YAML manifests, run them as sandboxed actors with suspend/resume, pre-wired workspaces, and network fencing — with a claimed ceiling of billions of concurrent tasks per cluster. It's Apache 2.0 at github.com/google/ax, built by the team behind Google's internal agent runtime, but explicitly pre-stable with breaking changes expected before any stable release.

Leakers claim a first Gemini 4 Pro checkpoint exists and point to October 2026 for launch, with Google skipping the delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro entirely. Spicier claims say a 'gemini-3.8-flash' topping AI Arena charts is actually Gemini 4 Pro incognito, beating GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1. Confirmed: Google says Gemini 4 pre-training began in July. No date, specs, or benchmarks are official.