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Preview: Gemini API Additional Terms of Service. Google sent out an email last week linking to this preview of upcoming changes to the Gemini API terms. Key paragraph from that email:

To maintain a safe and responsible environment for all users, we're enhancing our abuse monitoring practices for Google AI Studio and Gemini API. Starting December 13, 2024, Gemini API will log prompts and responses for Paid Services, as described in the terms. These logs are only retained for a limited time (55 days) and are used solely to detect abuse and for required legal or regulatory disclosures. These logs are not used for model training. Logging for abuse monitoring is standard practice across the global AI industry. You can preview the updated Gemini API Additional Terms of Service, effective December 13, 2024.

That "for required legal or regulatory disclosures" piece makes it sound like somebody could subpoena Google to gain access to your logged Gemini API calls.

It's not clear to me if this is a change from their current policy though, other than the number of days of log retention increasing from 30 to 55 (and I'm having trouble finding that 30 day number written down anywhere.)

That same email also announced the deprecation of the older Gemini 1.0 Pro model:

Gemini 1.0 Pro will be discontinued on February 15, 2025.