<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Gemini on BriefTechNews.com</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/gemini/</link><description>Recent content in Gemini on BriefTechNews.com</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright &amp;copy;2021 &lt;br&gt; Designed &amp;amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:47:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/gemini/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Google previews Gemini 4 Argon, Apple sets smart home push, and Reddit pulls its feeds</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-01-tech/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:47:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-01-tech/</guid><description>Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, boasting 77.9 percent on DeepSWE v1.1 and an upcoming 1-million-token output window priced at $10 per million tokens. Apple scheduled an October 13 hardware event focused on smart home infrastructure, including a new hub and an updated HomePod mini. Reddit announced the termination of RSS feeds by November 13 and a full shutdown of its public API by March 2027 to fight scrapers. Elsewhere, DeepMind demonstrated watermarkable synthetic proteins, and Eli Lilly shared late-stage clinical data showing up to 25 percent average weight reduction with triple-agonist retatrutide.</description></item><item><title>Shadow AI Costs Workers £958M as Salesforce Outage and Chrome 155 Hit Enterprise IT</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-17-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:40:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-17-it/</guid><description>Deloitte reports 63% of British workers use generative AI at work, with 17% paying for tools themselves - totaling £958 million in ungoverned spending. Meanwhile, Salesforce suffered a widespread service disruption on September 16, and Google Drive went down for 37 minutes the same day, exposing SaaS fragility. Chrome 155 blocks chrome.debugger API attachments under enterprise policies, breaking debugging extensions. Gemini in Google Workspace now connects directly to Salesforce and HubSpot via MCP, and Rivet launched BYOC for in-VPC control planes. Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s Patch Tuesday broke copy-paste in Excel with no workaround yet.</description></item><item><title>Anthropic's Fable 5.1 Drops Cached Token Prices by 75%, Google's Flash Model Narrows Coding Gap</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-02-tech/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:39:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-02-tech/</guid><description>Anthropic&amp;rsquo;s Claude Fable 5.1 is now generally available with a 75% price cut on cached context reads, while Mythos 5.1 enters restricted access for security and life-sciences teams. Google is poised to ship a new Flash model that internal testers prefer over Anthropic&amp;rsquo;s Opus for coding, despite a months-long delay on its Pro line. Waymo is publicly attacking Tesla&amp;rsquo;s camera-only approach ahead of the Cybercab launch, and a study shows a type system can push AI code generation accuracy from 39% to 96%.</description></item></channel></rss>