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- Gemini connects with Strava to turn workouts into insights
Josh Woodward of Google Gemini announced a Gemini connection for Strava that turns workouts into insights, per his official account.
- Gemini Robotics Embodied Reasoning 2 arrives on Google Cloud
Google Cloud announced that Gemini Robotics Embodied Reasoning 2 is now available on Google Cloud, per the official Google Cloud Tech account.
- Google says Gemini can check whether images, video, or audio carry Google SynthID watermarks
Google’s GeminiApp account says users can ask Gemini whether media was made with Google AI via SynthID detection, covering image, video, and audio files as a confidence check when browsing AI-generated content.
- gemini-cli v0.66.0 ships UI sync fixes, safer git env, and a Gemini 4 optimization banner
Google’s gemini-cli v0.66.0 release notes list synchronized tool-output rendering, Windows openDiff quoting fixes, disabled interactive credential/SSH prompts in getSafeGitEnv, hardened SKILL.md frontmatter parsing, and a banner that Gemini CLI is not optimized for Gemini 4, plus assorted UI/CI cleanups.
- Gemini API turns on Generate Content storage by default for new paid-tier projects
Google’s Gemini API changelog for October 26, 2026 says new paid-tier projects using generateContent, streamGenerateContent, and batchGenerateContent now store requests by default (store=true), matching the Interactions API. Existing projects keep their current setting; developers can set store=false per request or disable Generate Content API logging in AI Studio Logs and Datasets settings.
- Gemini can reference Google Maps searches and saved places with Calendar, with permission
Google says Gemini can, with user permission, reference Google Maps searches and saved places alongside Google Calendar to give more grounded local answers and plans.
- Google's Agent Compute Engine gives each Gemini agent a hardware-isolated microVM, per The Decoder
Google announced Agent Compute Engine, which runs each AI agent in its own Titanium-secured microVM, already powers Gemini, and will open for preview in coming months, The Decoder reports. Idle VMs pause automatically; Google also open-sourced Agent Substrate, a Kubernetes runtime it says can fit ten times as many agents per server, with suspend/resume under 500 ms in a 200,000-agent test.
- Google brings conversational Gemini navigation to Apple CarPlay for US drivers, per The Verge
The Verge reports that Google is bringing its Gemini assistant for navigation to Apple CarPlay, about a year after it arrived on Android Auto. Conversational Gemini in navigation is available today for US drivers, and Google says a global rollout is also happening.
- Gemini 4 Argon processed nearly 25 trillion tokens in its first 72 hours, 3x Gemini 3
Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4 Argon processed nearly 25 trillion tokens across users, developers and enterprises in the first 72 hours after launch, three times what Gemini 3 did over the same period.
- Gemini on Android Auto gets Personal Intelligence, pulling answers from Gmail, Calendar, Photos and Maps while you drive
Google says Gemini is now available globally on Android Auto and cars with Google built-in, and is rolling out Personal Intelligence starting today on Android Auto. With the user's permission, Gemini can draw on Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Maps, YouTube and Search to answer questions such as a flight gate while driving. Cars with Google built-in get Personal Intelligence in the coming months.
- Gemini CLI v0.65.0 enforces read-only workspace settings in untrusted folders and adds custom telemetry headers
Google's Gemini CLI v0.65.0 makes workspace settings read-only in untrusted folders and adds support for custom OTLP headers in telemetry settings. The release also fixes duplicate tool responses and lost history when resuming sessions, OAuth and verification retry loops, a hang on Enter in interactive mode, and session corruption after rapid Ctrl-C interruptions.
- Google AI Pro subscribers can now build with Gemini 4 Argon in Google AI Studio
Google AI Studio said on October 16 that Google AI Pro subscribers can now use Gemini 4 Argon in AI Studio's Build mode and Playground. The post links to ai.studio/build and does not mention usage limits or other plans.
- Sundar Pichai highlights a Gemini 4 Argon video of a pelican riding a bike drawn with Fourier epicycles and set to Lyria 3.5 music
Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared a video by @fofrAI in which Gemini 4 Argon made an animation of a pelican riding a bicycle using Fourier epicycles and prompted time-synced music from Lyria 3.5, saying he watched it several times and praising the creativity of both the prompting and the model. @fofrAI said Argon has a natural understanding of the world that lets it do many things from first principles.
- Google Workspace says Amplifon analyzes frontline customer feedback with Gemini Notebook and Gemini, saving store teams hours of manual work
In a Google Workspace Customer AI Boost Bite video, Giuseppe Ficara of Amplifon shows how the company uses Gemini Notebook and Gemini to analyze customer feedback from thousands of handwritten notes and call center interactions, automating insights and freeing up hours of manual work for store teams.
- Google says Gemini 4 Argon helped Chrome engineers eliminate a whole category of browser crashes in weeks
Google says its engineers used Gemini 4 Argon to eliminate an entire category of browser crashes in Chrome. Argon helped separate core webpage handling from a 6-million-line legacy folder in Chromium's 40-million-line codebase, finishing what Google describes as months of work in weeks.
- Gemini app shows Gemini 4 Argon turning a video or webcam feed into a playable synthesizer in Canvas
Google's Gemini app says Gemini 4 Argon can build an interactive audio app in Canvas that turns a video or webcam feed into a playable synthesizer, letting users set the vibe and play their camera like an instrument.
- Gemini CLI v0.64.0 makes file writes atomic, recovers corrupted state from backup and fixes headless folder trust
Google's Gemini CLI v0.64.0 serializes file tool operations and makes writes atomic, persists CLI state atomically with recovery from a backup on corruption, and propagates the resolved folder trust state in headless mode. It also fixes a CPU hang on @ inside code, @file:line references, Ctrl+C emergency aborts during active operations and Windows IME cursor and extension-update issues. The ACP integration now emits usage_update notifications, and the A2A server gains V1 to V2 settings migration.
- Google makes Gemini 4 Argon generally available in the Gemini API, Gemini app and Google Cloud
Google says Gemini 4 Argon is now globally available to developers and enterprises through the Gemini API in AI Studio and on Google Cloud, to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Antigravity, and to Ultra and Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. The general release follows a limited first rollout to trusted cyber defenders. Argon launches at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input 95% off, and The Verge reports the price doubles when the introductory period ends in late November. Google says Argon ranks first on the Vals Index and outperforms other frontier models on coding, finance, legal, cybersecurity and science benchmarks.
- Google Workspace pitches Gemini to small businesses as a way to scale output
Google Workspace promoted how small businesses in the US use Gemini in Workspace to multiply daily output, linking to its guide on getting started with Google AI for work.
- Google deprecates Gemini 3.7 Flash in the Gemini API
The Gemini API changelog entry dated October 8, 2026 announces the deprecation of Gemini 3.7 Flash (gemini-3.7-flash).