🚀 Google Launches Gemini CLI

PLUS: AlphaGenome Reads DNA Like Code

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The Summary AI
June 26, 2025

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Google just released a gift for devs: a fully open-source Gemini CLI that puts the power of a Gemini 2.5 Pro agent right into your terminal window, for free. With generous usage limits and built-in grounding via search, it’s a big move toward making AI agents part of everyday developer workflows. Let’s unpack…

Today’s Summary:

  • 🚀 Google debuts free Gemini CLI

  • 📲 Claude now builds Claude apps

  • 🧬 AlphaGenome simulates DNA behavior

  • ⚖️ Anthropic wins copyright lawsuit

  • 🎥 Midjourney rolls out image-to-video

  • 🔍 OpenAI finds hidden “bad AI” switch

  • 🛠️ 2 new tools

TOP STORY

Google launches free Gemini CLI for developers

The Summary: Google just released Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that brings Gemini 2.5 Pro into developers’ command line, and is free for most users. With high request limits and real-time search grounding, it’s engineered for coding, automation, and research tasks.

Key details:

  • Gemini CLI offers 60 requests/minute and 1000 free requests/day with a personal Google account

  • Google doubled its own internal usage to set generous quota limits

  • Uses Gemini 2.5 Pro 1 million-token context window

  • Can be extended via the Model Context Protocol

  • Fully open source under Apache 2.0 license

Why it matters: Gemini CLI offers similar capabilities as Claude Code, but with no subscription fees. Claude Code users pay anywhere from ~$5-10/day. Gemini CLI still delivers multi-step AI agent workflows, scripting, and context plumbing. The open-source foundation allows community-driven improvements.

ANTHROPIC

Claude can now build and share AI apps

The Summary: Anthropic now lets users build, host, and share AI-powered apps directly inside Claude. These apps can use Claude itself via the API, and when someone uses the app, AI costs will run on their Claude subscription, not yours. You can write prompts, Claude handles the code, interface, and hosting. It’s a showcase of “Claude inside Claude”, and a glimpse of what software might become.

Key details:

  • Claude Apps are interactive artifacts that can also use Claude API

  • Claude API usage is billed to end users, not developers

  • No infrastructure, API keys, deployment, or hosting costs

  • Popular use cases include small games, tutoring bots, writing tools

  • Available in beta to Free, Pro, and Max plan users

Why it matters: This looks like an early move towards a new “AI apps” approach built directly on the platform, where usage costs shift to the end user. Developers can create and share functional tools with no infrastructure or API costs. It’s not quite an app store yet, but it’s a step to a Claude-native software layer.

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GOOGLE

Google’s new AI reads the human genome

The Summary: Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome, an AI model that predicts what happens when a small DNA variation occurs. It reads up to a million DNA bases at once and beats previous tools on nearly every benchmark. The model helps scientists simulate how genetic changes ripple through the cells, offering a clearer view into the 98% of the genome once dismissed as “junk”.

Key details:

  • AlphaGenome predicts gene activity, RNA splicing, and 3D DNA structure with single-base precision

  • First model to predict exactly where RNA gets cut

  • Outperforms top models on 24 of 26 scientific benchmarks

  • Processes 1 million DNA bases per run using transformer architecture

  • Available through the AlphaGenome API for non-commercial research

  • Not currently built for clinical use, it is still a research tool only

Why it matters: Most of our DNA acts like a complex control system for when and where genes turn on. Tiny changes in this “switchboard” can cause rare diseases, cancers, or traits we barely understand. Until now, scientists had to guess how those changes worked, or run long, expensive experiments. AlphaGenome helps simulate them instantly, giving researchers a faster way to study gene behavior and explore possible treatments.

TOOLS

🥇 New tools

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