Gemini Notebook gets a five-hour usage clock

Google is giving Gemini Notebook compute-specific usage limits that refresh every five hours instead of daily, with the change rolling out to consumer accounts on September 2, according to Google’s usage-limit announcement. The meter will weigh prompt complexity, chat length, source count, and features; users who hit the ceiling can defer Video Overviews or Slide Decks rather than lose the job. Teams designing grounded assistants should treat quota UX as part of the product contract, just as Google’s Gemini price cut made inference economics part of model choice: a limit that refreshes every five hours is a different capacity promise from a daily allowance.