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Gemini News 2026 — Model Releases, API Updates, Gemini vs Claude, and All Google AI News

Complete Gemini and Google AI hub for 2026: Gemini 2.5 Flash made default model across all Gemini products on June 20, Android 17 with Gemini OS-level integration, Gemma 4 open-source models, Gemini 2.5 API pricing ($0.30/M Flash, $1.25/M Pro), Gemini vs ChatGPT and Claude comparisons, Demis Hassabis at G7, and Google SpaceX Colossus deal ($920M/month). Updated daily.

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Gemini News 2026 — Model Releases, API Updates, Gemini vs Claude, and All Google AI News

GEMINI IN 2026 — QUICK FACTS

Default model (June 2026): Gemini 2.5 Flash — made default across all Gemini products June 20
Flagship model: Gemini 2.5 Pro — 1M token context, thinking mode
API pricing: Gemini 2.5 Flash at $0.30/M input — most capable model as a default in AI history
New June 2026: Android 17 + Wear OS 7 launched with deeper Gemini OS integration
G7 presence: Demis Hassabis at G7 alongside Altman and Amodei — first joint CEO appearance
SpaceX compute: Google signed $920M/month Colossus compute deal through July 2029

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Gemini 2.5 API Pricing (June 2026)

ModelInput / 1MOutput / 1MContext
Gemini 2.5 Flash$0.30$2.501M tokens
Gemini 2.5 Pro$1.25$10.001M tokens
Gemma 4 (open)FreeFreeSelf-hosted

Google at G7 — AI Policy Context

Demis Hassabis at G7 — Évian-les-Bains, June 15-17

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis joined OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the G7 summit — the first time all three rival frontier AI lab CEOs appeared before world leaders simultaneously. Voluntary safety commitments including youth safety and frontier AI risk in cyber and biological domains. Proposed Trusted Partners scheme for allied-nation AI model access, directly relevant to the Fable 5 export control situation. Google's SpaceX Colossus compute deal ($920M/month) also emerged in this context as infrastructure securing Google's AI training capacity independent of AWS and Azure.

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