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Gemini 4 Argon Ships With a 1M Context and a Dec. 1 Bill
Google's Gemini 4 Argon ties GPT-6 Astra on the Intelligence Index with a unified 1M window, while a 62K-token output habit and a Dec. 1 price hike loom.
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Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Months Late. Coding Is Why.
Bloomberg reports Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind its June promise as coding gains miss internal targets. Alphabet shares slipped, partners are still testing, and Google says it is engaged with the U.S. government on the model.
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Google Retires Gemini CLI for Closed-Source Antigravity CLI
On June 18 Google cut off Gemini CLI for free, Pro, and Ultra users and pushed them to a new tool, Antigravity CLI. It's more than a rename — and enterprise customers are the exception.
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Google's Open Knowledge Format, and the Plugin I Built for It
Google released Open Knowledge Format, a plain-Markdown way to give AI agents your institutional knowledge. I read the spec and built a Claude Code plugin and skill for it.
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Apple Rebuilt Siri With Google's Help. Just Don't Call It Gemini.
The new Siri AI leans on a custom Google-built model running on Nvidia hardware in Google's cloud — and Apple's press release never says the word Google. What's verifiable, what's contractual, and what IT shops should ask.
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Encrypted RCS Isn't as Easy as Expected
iOS 26.5 ships encrypted RCS, but actually seeing the lock icon in a conversation requires three things to line up — and only one of them is on the iPhone side. Most Android contacts won't get there without being asked.
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Fitbit Air Hits WHOOP's Form Factor at a Fraction of the Cost
Google unveiled a screenless $99 Fitbit Air on May 7, with shipments starting May 26. The form factor mirrors WHOOP. The pricing does not: the Fitbit Air sells the hardware once for $99 with the subscription optional, while WHOOP sells only annual memberships starting at $199 that bundle the hardware in.
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Google's $40B Anthropic Deal: $10B Now, $30B on Milestones
Google is putting $10 billion into Anthropic now and another $30 billion if performance targets land, at a $350 billion valuation unchanged since February. The compute loop is the point.