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Google's 16 October privacy policy adds an exception for Personal Intelligence. Here is what changed, what Google says it does not do, and how to disconnect.
Google's experimental gemini-api CLI is a single Go binary that writes images, audio and video to disk and returns only the path. Apache 2.0, in beta.
Under PAIPA, State designated Ding's startup Zhisuan, the MiraclePlus VC firm that seeded it, and three MiraclePlus funds or entities. OFAC listed all five.
Reuters, citing the Financial Times, says Anthropic offered Blackstone above 10% on $9 billion of chip debt. Reuters says it has not verified the report.
Google stopped new Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise sales on 9 October. Annual renewal runs through 31 January 2027; monthly, 31 December 2027.
A September screenshot of an OpenRouter email says Google-authored models lose ZDR routing on 18 October. OpenRouter's live list still includes Vertex Gemini.
Google's 15 October post says Universal Cart is rolling out in the US on Search and in the Gemini app, with price alerts and merchant checkout.
Google made Deep Review public on 14 October, with two free reviews a week. The blog and the portal disagree on several terms.
Google's 13 October post says Gemini 4 Argon is globally available. The API id is gemini-4-argon, with introductory prices through 30 November.
Google's Gemini API changelog says gemini-3.7-flash now routes to gemini-3.8-flash, and gemini-3.5-flash to gemini-3.6-flash, with no shutdown date. One Deep Research agent ends 23 October.
Google and BIDMC report a single-clinic feasibility study of AMIE pre-visit chats in The Lancet. It is a research system: the abstract records zero safety stops, and larger trials are still needed.
Roman Gushchin's Linux Plumbers 2026 slides say Sashiko, an agent that reviews kernel patches, has finished 191,000 reviews. The same deck cites 1,277 upstream commits and 463 CVEs whose fixes name the tool.
Google's 7 October post introduces Android on-device AI seal, also called AISeal, a protected virtual machine for personal AI context. It cites SESIP Level 5 and names MediaTek and Snapdragon, with no phone list.
Google says Playground, an experimental browser tool, lets people in the U.S. aged 18 and older create, play, and share games from prompts. Unity Spark is in testing, with a closed beta still ahead.
Google says anyone can now check images, video, and audio for SynthID watermarks from Google and partners including OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, with Apple listed as coming soon.
Google published EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into one 768-wide vector. Developers can load fewer encoders or store a shorter vector.
Updated 10 October: Google's Gemini help page now puts accounts without an AI plan on Auto, sending most prompts to Flash-Lite and harder ones to Flash or Pro. AI Plus loses Pro. The Ultra Deep Think line is gone.
Google's 1 October 2026 post launches Guided Vision in Gemini Live on Android 9 and newer, for spoken help while you share a camera. Google says it is not a navigation aid or a white cane.
Google posted DiarizationLM-Gemma-4-E4B-v1 on Hugging Face on 4 October 2026: an Apache 2.0 model that corrects which speaker said which words in ASR transcripts, fine-tuned on four diarization corpora.
Weaviate v1.39.3 (Oct 1, 2026) fixes a High CVSS 7.1 credential disclosure in text2vec-google, multi2vec-google, and generative-google. Impacted: < v1.39.3. CVE pending MITRE assignment.
Google Skills replace Gems (Sep 30 primaries): slash-invoke, stackable, SKILL.md-shaped. Dates differ: consumer blog “globally/today” vs Workspace Updates (Workspace Oct 5; Gemini app Oct 13). App↔Workspace skills do not sync. Gems sunset “no sooner than” Mar 1 / Jun 1 2027 for Workspace cohorts.
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon on 2026-09-30: phased to Fairwind cyber defenders first, 1M output tokens (not full context), intro $2/$10 then $4/$20 per 1M tokens on the blog—no public model ID or ai.google.dev pricing row yet.
Google's antigravity-preview-09-2026 brings Antigravity coding-agent tools to the Gemini API on Gemini 3.8 Flash, with new APIs to move files in and out of the sandbox and keep secrets away from the model.
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS on 2026-09-23 — promptable voice design, 2,000+ voices, and consent-gated replication. Pricing from ai.google.dev: Flash $0.50/$9 and Lite $0.50/$6 through 2026-12-31.
