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Google’s new Gemini tiers leave free users with its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro
Until now, a free Google account got you Gemini 3.6 Flash and some access to 3.1 Pro, though how much varied. Starting in October 2026, it gets you…
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Gemini Flash pricing and nearly matches its multimodal benchmarks
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash charges $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, and that’s the introductory rate. Qwen just put a multimodal model on…
Google is now asking for your video selfie to prove who you are
Google wants a video of your face. And this week it started asking for it on its own home page. The prompt sits at the bottom of the…
NVIDIA and Google’s new power coalition wants faster grid hookups for AI data centers
The pitch is a trade. AI data centers agree to dial back electricity use when the grid is straining, and in return utilities plug them in years sooner…
Gemini’s agentic video analysis cut my token usage by up to 88 percent
Feed Gemini a 90-minute lecture and ask it one question about a single slide, and until now you paid for every second of that lecture. One frame per…
Google buries its search links even deeper under AI Overviews
Search for “what is the best game on switch 2” and you might not see a single blue link until you’ve scrolled past a wall of machine-written text,…
Google to Android devs: cut your app’s RAM use, or else
February 2027 is the date Android developers should be writing down. That’s when Google starts enforcing per-app memory limits on the Play Store, and when an app that…
Anthropic Breaks Down Its Watermark System While Angry Claude Users Cancel
Anthropic’s watermark doesn’t swap letters. It doesn’t hide characters in whitespace. It nudges word choices you’d never notice, and by the time you’ve read a few paragraphs, the…
Before Google won, search was still an open experiment
In 1996, submitting a website to Yahoo meant convincing an actual human being that your business deserved to exist. Nicole M. Radziwill worked as a systems administrator, programmer…