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Google Cloud adds budget controls and usage-based pricing to Gemini EnterpriseGoogle Cloud is adding a pay-as-you-go option to Gemini Enterprise alongside per-seat subscriptions and letting customers set monthly project limits that pause an agent’s API calls when budgets are exhausted. Google also announced term discounts and a planned off-peak option that could cut token costs by up to 50%, making cost governance part of the product’s on-ramp.→Glean launches Tau enterprise desktop AI experienceGlean launched Glean Tau at its Glean:GO conference, extending its enterprise context and controls to work across local files, applications and code. The company also reported a benchmark in which Glean used 81% fewer tokens and was preferred 78% of the time against Claude Cowork, though those comparisons were vendor-run rather than independent evaluations.→