Gemini Recent Updates: Scheduled Actions, 2.5 ‘Deep Think,’ UK Planning Pilot, OnePlus 13 Shortcut & Winklevoss Gemini Crypto IPO

Google’s AI ecosystem and the Winklevoss twins’ crypto venture share the same star-sign name, but rarely have their storylines converged so neatly.

Over the past week the two very different Geminis notched milestone announcements that stretch from government bureaucracy to Wall Street. Here’s how the twin tales unfolded...

A New Power for Everyday Automation

On 6 June, Google quietly flipped the switch on Scheduled Actions, a small but potent addition to Gemini’s web and mobile apps. The feature lets paying users create one-off or recurring tasks—“send me a Monday-morning calendar digest,” “draft ten tweet hooks every first of the month,” “text my team if I’m running late”—and then forget about them. A dedicated tab now lists active jobs, with a ten-task ceiling for early adopters.

Unlike classic Assistant routines, Scheduled Actions fire as push notifications (mobile) or cards inside Google Workspace side-panels (web). E-mail triggers are still missing, though Google says Gmail support is “on the roadmap,” signalling a drip-feed approach to deeper workflow integration.

Gemini 2.5 Grows a Longer Memory and “Deep Think”

At Google I/O the company pulled back the curtain on Gemini 2.5, trumpeting a pending two-million-token context window—roughly the length of an unabridged War and Peace—and an experimental reasoning mode called Deep Think. The upgraded window isn’t live yet; today’s Pro tier tops out at one million tokens. But Google’s newly minted Ultra subscription, launched 27 May, promises first dibs once the switch is thrown later this month.

Deep Think is the real tease: instead of sprinting to a single answer, the model chains intermediate thoughts, allocates time budgets per sub-task, and surfaces a transparent trace of its reasoning. Early testers say it feels less like autocomplete and more like having a team of analysts pitch competing solutions before fusing the best parts into one response. That level of deliberation won’t come cheap—Ultra lists at $249.99 per month—but enterprises chasing complex planning or research workloads are already lining up.

Britain’s Planning System Gets an AI Co-Pilot

Across the Atlantic, the UK’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities chose Gemini to power Extract, a pilot tool designed to summarise giant stacks of zoning submissions and flag policy conflicts. Two councils—Hillingdon and Exeter—are trialling the service; a nationwide roll-out is pencilled in for spring 2026 if results cut turnaround times as hoped.

Extract’s promise is two-fold: planners wade through fewer pages of jargon, and local residents see approvals (or rejections) in “well under a month” instead of the current 53-day average. To soothe transparency jitters, the Cabinet Office says an open-API spec will publish in Q4, allowing third-party planning apps to hook into the same summaries citizens see.

OnePlus Beats Pixel to a Gemini Shortcut

Hardware-wise, Gemini everywhere is no longer just branding on a slide deck. The new OnePlus 13 and 13s ship with a lock-screen button that dives straight into an on-device Gemini chat—no wake-word or power-button press required. Pixel owners can approximate the move with Quick Settings tweaks, but it’s hardly one-touch. For OnePlus, the shortcut is a tidy brag: a Chinese-built handset out-Google-ing Google on its home turf.

Crypto’s Gemini Eyes Wall Street

Meanwhile in New York, the other Gemini—Gemini Trust Company, the exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering on 6 June. Details are scarce until the S-1 surfaces, yet the timing is symbolically rich: Circle’s blockbuster NYSE debut in March rekindled appetite for crypto listings after the bear-market drought. If all goes smoothly, Gemini could join Coinbase as one of the few publicly traded pure-play exchanges, giving mainstream investors another lever on the digital-asset economy.

Under-the-Radar Tidbits

• Developer “thinking budgets.” Google slipped a toggle into Vertex AI last week that lets builders cap how long Gemini reasons—a nod to cost control as prompts balloon in scope.

• Ultra sweeteners. While Deep Think cooks, Ultra subscribers already enjoy Veo 3 Fast video generation, storyboard-to-film “Flow” tooling, and 30 terabytes of storage—essentially a studio-in-a-box for power users.

• Scheduled-Actions caveats. Early adopters note tasks run only on the hour for now, and multiple language triggers can confuse the scheduler. Expect polish in incremental updates.

Why It All Adds Up

Taken together, the two Geminis illustrate AI’s dual narrative in 2025: a maturing consumer-grade assistant inching toward enterprise depth, and a once-niche crypto platform racing back into the financial mainstream. Google’s steady cadence—bigger context, richer reasoning, deeper integrations—points to an AI model that wants to be less a chatbot and more an operating system for knowledge work. And on Wall Street, a crypto IPO in a post-FTX era signals tentative confidence that the sector has shaken off its winter blues.

For end users the impact is immediate: set your virtual assistant to run weekly chores, brainstorm long-form projects without copy-pasting chunks of context, and watch local governments experiment with faster, clearer planning decisions. Gemini, once merely a constellation, is quickly becoming the connective tissue across devices, workflows—and now, perhaps, investment portfolios.

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