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Google to Downgrade Gemini Free Tier Access - DTH

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 4, 20264 min
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Google Gemini's free tier to lose access to certain models, South Korea orders investigation into recent data leak incidents, and GPT-6 Astra attempts to cheat in a StarCraft competition. Check out the show notes here. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Want to get this show ad free? Head to dailytechnewsshow.com slash subscribe to find out how. These are the daily tech headlines for Sunday, October 4, 2026. I'm Jen Cutter. Beginning October 9, Google is changing access options for free and paid users of Gemini models. Currently, free users have some access to Gemini 3.1 Pro along with Gemini 3.6 Flash,

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but those accounts without Google AI subscriptions will be limited to Flashlight after the change. AI Plus subscribers will be able to access Flashlight and Flash, and the Pro model will only be available to Google AI Pro or AI Ultra subscribers. On Sunday, in an emergency meeting, South Korea's president ordered an investigation

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into recent data leak incidents at public agencies, finance companies, and banks. The country's sector regulator wants these institutions to, quote, carry out comprehensive security inspections, tighten access controls, minimize external system access, and strengthen consumer protection measures.

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