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Google announces Gemini App for Windows 10 and 11

September 11, 2026

Google has expanded its desktop lineup with the launch of the dedicated Gemini app for Windows. Designed as a system-level utility, the client provides instant AI assistance directly over active applications on Windows 10 and 11.

Google added in their announcement 3 ways of using the Gemini App in your PC;

1. Access Gemini instantly with a keyboard shortcut.
Press Alt + Space on your PC at any time to open Gemini over your active work. Whether you need a quick fact-check on a document or a few catchy title ideas for a presentation, you can get the help you need and jump right back into your workflow.

2. Power through deep work in a dedicated workspace.
Inside the new app, you can access everything you use Gemini for already. Hand off multi-step tasks to Gemini Spark, your 24/7 personal AI agent, or ask Gemini to draft a project summary by pulling information directly from your Google apps like Gmail and Google Drive.

3. Create images and videos.
Bring creative concepts to life directly from your desktop. You can generate custom images with Nano Banana for a presentation, direct a high-quality video with Gemini Omni, and best of all you can do it all in one convenient place.

Google added that they developed the gemini app to be lightweight and quiet in the background without degrading PC performance.

To download the Gemini App for Windows just visit: gemini.google/desktop.

Google stated that this release represents the initial desktop footprint for Windows, with additional native OS capabilities planned for future rollouts.

Anthropic announces Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

September 2, 2026

Anthropic said in their announcement, “Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are the same model, but with different levels of safeguards. Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is available only through our trusted access programs; its safeguards are specifically designed to support work in cybersecurity and the life sciences. Alongside its increased capabilities, Fable 5.1 takes important steps towards addressing the feedback we’ve received from customers on price, data retention, and safeguards.”

May be related to Anthropic’s previous announcement, “Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads, wherever usage is billed by token. This is because we’re reducing our pricing on cache reads (where the model reads inputs that have already been processed and stored). For highly agentic work, the savings will often be much larger—up to approximately 45%.”

Key Upgrades & Technical Performance

  • Next-Level Coding & Benchmarks: Fable 5.1 sets new performance records, scoring 52.6% on the Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 benchmark (compared to 24.7% for Fable 5) and reaching 73.4% on CursorBench 3.2.0. The model excels at finding root causes in complex codebases—in one instance identifying a rare bug in an external vendor library that had eluded human engineers for years.
  • Mythos 5.1 for Specialized Research: Available strictly through trusted access programs, Mythos 5.1 utilizes specialized, high-tier safeguards designed for advanced cybersecurity vulnerability discovery and scientific research in the life sciences.
  • Significant Cost Reduction: Typical token-based workloads will see an estimated 25% cost reduction compared to Fable 5 due to lower pricing on cache reads. Highly agentic workflows can yield total savings of up to 45%.
  • Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS): Anthropic introduced EFS to deliver zero data retention capabilities by allowing enterprise users to store data directly within their own cloud infrastructure rather than on Anthropic servers.

Benchmark Comparison

Metric / Benchmark Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Fable 5 GPT-5.6 Sol
Agentic Coding (Terminal-Bench 4.0) 55.8% (60.9% for Mythos) 42.0% 37.3%
Scientific Research (Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1) 52.6% 24.7% 22.4%
Multidisciplinary Reasoning (Humanity’s Last Exam – with tools) 65.0% 63.8% —