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3 updates · 3 appsJuly 19, 2026

Gemini Changes How It Measures Free Usage

Gemini has a new way of measuring your usage, which could change how much you can do for free.

Gemini

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Google has changed how it measures your use of Gemini, which might affect how many things you can create for free.

Earlier this summer, Google rolled out a bunch of upgrades to its Gemini AI apps, making them more powerful than ever. Google’s AI can now work across more apps, and it’s getting increasingly difficult to use anything made by Google withou…

Google has completely revamped the way that AI usage is measured and metered out across the various t…

Google has completely revamped the way that AI usage is measured and metered out across the various tiers: Free, Plus, Pro, and Ultra.

Original reportingHow Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your UsageRead original

ChatGPT

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Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers.

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Original reportingDave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’Read original

Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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