Yesterday in AI: 22 June 2026 — Gemini Ties GPT-5.4; Anthropic Wants Your Face

TL;DR — Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro with Deep Think on June 22, tying GPT-5.4 on LMArena with a 2M-token context window; Anthropic announced biometric ID verification for Claude consumer users starting July 8; calesthio/OpenMontage debuted as GitHub's first open-source agentic video production system with 12 pipelines and 500+ agent skills. --- 1⃣ Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think Launches, Ties GPT-5.4 on Day One - What: Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro with a Deep Think reasoning mode on June 22, 2026 - Why it matters: It's the first model to match GPT-5.4 in human-preference rankings while offering twice the context window of any competitor - Key number: 2,000,000 — the token context window, double the nearest rival Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro with Deep Think landed on June 22 and immediately rewrote benchmark comparisons. The model scores 78% on SWE-bench — behind GPT-5's 80% and DeepSeek V4's 81% but ahead of Claude Sonnet 4.6's 73% — while tieing GPT-5.4 for first on LMArena, the human-preference leaderboard that measures blind side-by-side comparisons. On competitive coding LiveCodeBench V6 and expert-level science Humanity's Last Exam, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think claims state-of-the-art results. The headline differentiator is context: 2 million tokens, double what any other frontier model currently supports. Deep Think mode explores multiple solution paths before responding, yielding 5–15% performance gains over standard output on hard math and multi-step coding problems. It's available immediately through Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. 📎 Google Bloghttps://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-deep-think/ · BenchLM Benchmarkshttps://benchlm.ai/models/gemini-2-5-pro · Google DeepMindhttps://deepmind.google/models/gemini/ --- 2⃣ Anthropic Will Scan Your Face to Use Claude Starting July 8 - What: Anthropic announced mandatory biometric ID verification for some Claude consumer users, effective July 8, 2026 - Why it matters: It's the first time a majo