If you want to understand why a $4.3 trillion company can lose the GDP of Portugal in a single afternoon, ignore the chatbots and watch the programmers.Alphabet's shares slid 4.4 per cent to close at $353.81 on Thursday after a report, citing people familiar with the matter, said Gemini 3.5 Pro — the flagship model Google unveiled at its I/O conference on 19 May with a promise to ship it the following month — is months behind schedule, its coding abilities falling short of internal targets . Roughly $200 billion in market value went with it, in a session that dragged much of the technology sector lower .About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
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