New Gemini

Tech Brew Ride Home

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Technology, Tech News, News

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash and started pretraining Gemini 4. China weighed tightening AI export controls, Bessent said the US would probe Chinese model distillation, Apple prepped a Klarna-backed leasing program, and OpenAI passed 10M Codex and Work users. Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber (9to5Google) Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (CNBC) Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip export controls and is consulting leading domestic AI companies, in a bid to slow advanced tech acquisitions (FT) US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration will investigate whether Chinese AI models were illegally distilled from American models, and raises the possibility of sanctions (CNBC) Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a leasing program for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, in partnership with Klarna in the US next week (Bloomberg) OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage from earlier this month when the company announced ChatGPT Work (Bloomberg) OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage from earlier this month when the company announced ChatGPT Work (Implicator AI) Garmin launches the Cirqa Smart Band, a $200 screenless fitness tracker that monitors 80+ activities with an up to 10 day battery life, to compete with Whoop (Bloomberg) Garmin launches the Cirqa Smart Band, a $200 screenless fitness tracker that monitors 80+ activities with an up to 10 day battery life, to compete with Whoop (The Verge) Subscribe to the ad-free feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Welcome to the TechBrew ride home for Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today. Google launched Gemini 3.6 and started pre-training Gemini 4. China weighed tightening AI export controls. Besant said the U.S. would probe Chinese model distillation. Apple prepped a Klarna-backed leasing program and OpenAI passed 10 million codecs and work users.
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1:46.2	I told you they had been a bit too quiet. Google today launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash
1:54.2	Light, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its most ambitious pre-training run yet set for Gemini 4.
2:04.1	But most importantly, for these new models, Google says Gemini 3.6 Flash delivers better coding,
2:09.7	knowledge work, and multimodal performance while reducing output token usage by up to 17%.
2:15.5	Even if you charge more for tokens, if you have to use less of them, it's a win, right?
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