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Google is making a direct play for the developer's command line with its new free AI agent, Gemini CLI. The open-source tool brings the power of Gemini 2.5 Pro directly into the terminal to assist with coding, debugging, and workflow automation.

With an exceptionally generous free tier and a massive 1 million token context window, Google is removing nearly all barriers to entry. Is this a strategic move to embed its AI deeply within the developer community, making Gemini the go-to foundation for future projects?

In today’s AI recap:

• Google’s free AI agent for your terminal

• Build interactive apps with Claude

• DeepMind’s AI deciphers the genome

• AI agents discover new software vulnerabilities

Gemini In Your Terminal

The Recap: Google has just unleashed Gemini CLI, a free and open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini 2.5 Pro directly into the developer's terminal. It boasts industry-leading free usage limits, making powerful AI accessible to everyone.

Unpacked:

• The tool runs on Gemini 2.5 Pro and features the industry's largest free allowance, offering 1,000 requests per day and a massive 1 million token context window for individual developers.

• As a fully open-source project, developers can inspect the code, contribute improvements, and extend its capabilities with custom prompts and integrations.

• Beyond coding, the agent can ground prompts with Google Search for real-time context and shares the same core technology as Gemini Code Assist for a seamless experience between the terminal and IDEs like VS Code.

Bottom line: Google is aggressively lowering the barrier to entry for advanced AI development tools by offering this powerful agent for free. This move positions the command line as a central hub for AI-driven workflows, encouraging widespread adoption among developers.

Cracking The Genetic Code

The Recap: Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaGenome, a new AI model designed to decipher the 98% of our DNA that regulates genes, promising a deeper understanding of genetic diseases.

Unpacked:

• Unlike previous models that had to trade off detail for scope, AlphaGenome can analyze DNA sequences up to 1 million letters long, predicting thousands of molecular properties with high resolution.

• The model focuses on the vast non-coding genome, the 98% of DNA that orchestrates gene activity and contains many variants linked to diseases like cancer.

• DeepMind makes the model available via an API for non-commercial researchers, enabling them to test hypotheses about genetic mutations virtually.

Bottom line: AlphaGenome provides researchers with a powerful tool to quickly narrow down which genetic mutations are most likely to cause disease. This could significantly accelerate the path to new diagnostics and personalized therapies for conditions ranging from rare genetic disorders to cancer.

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Claude, The App Builder

The Recap: Anthropic has upgraded its Claude chatbot, letting you build and share interactive AI-powered apps directly inside the chat window. The feature expands on Claude's "Artifacts" tool, turning conversational prompts into functional applications without needing a separate development environment.

Unpacked:

• You create an app by describing your idea, and Claude generates the underlying code, which you can see, modify, and share with a link.

• The billing model is creator-friendly; any API usage from a shared app is billed to the end-user's account, not the creator's, removing the cost barrier to distribution.

• The feature allows for building rich UIs with React and processing files, but is currently in beta with limitations like no external API calls or persistent storage, as seen in examples like a flashcard app.

Bottom line: This update significantly lowers the barrier to creating and distributing AI tools, allowing anyone with an idea to become an app developer. It also introduces a novel economic model that could foster a vibrant ecosystem of user-generated applications on the platform.

AI's Hacking Skills

The Recap: New research from UC Berkeley shows AI agents are becoming skilled hackers, automatically discovering 15 previously unknown "zero-day" vulnerabilities in widely-used software. This milestone demonstrates the double-edged nature of AI's rapid advancements in cybersecurity.

Unpacked:

• The study used a new evaluation framework called CyberGym, where AI models were tested against 188 large, real-world software projects to find security flaws.

• Despite the impressive discoveries, the technology is still developing; the top-performing AI agent and model combination successfully reproduced just under 12% of the known vulnerabilities in the benchmark.

• Beyond finding flaws, related work shows AI agents can monetize their skills, with one model earning over $1,300 in bug bounties on the BountyBench platform for a few hundred dollars in API costs.

Bottom line: This signals a major shift in cybersecurity, where automated tools will become essential for defense. Organizations will need to adopt AI-powered security to keep pace with AI-powered threats.

The Shortlist

Meta prevailed in a copyright lawsuit brought by authors including Sarah Silverman after a judge dismissed the case, ruling the plaintiffs failed to show how the AI model's training harmed their market.

QEMU banned all contributions from AI code generators like GitHub Copilot, citing the uncertain legal and copyright status of AI-generated content as too great a risk for the open-source project.

WhatsApp is rolling out AI-powered Message Summaries, an optional feature that uses on-device processing to privately summarize unread messages without breaking end-to-end encryption.

Cloudflare unveiled its Agents SDK, a purpose-built environment on its global network that allows AI agents from any framework to run, persist, and scale.

Udio introduced Sessions, a new timeline view for its AI music generator that gives users more precise control over editing and extending tracks.

Signing off,

David, Lucas, Mitchell — The Recap editorial team