Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI

Google is discontinuing its open-source Gemini CLI tool and replacing it with a closed-source, proprietary version. Most users will lose access to the original tool on June 18, unless they have enterprise credentials or paid API keys.

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