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Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its “strongest agentic and coding model yet”, for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode — Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows. — Today, we're introducing Gemini 3.5 …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Google launches the Gemini Omni multimodal model, saying it can “create anything from any input”, starting with video generation, for Google AI subscribers — Although it was already discovered by intrepid AI power users weeks ahead of the official unveiling today at Google's annual …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Google announces Gemini Spark, a “24/7 personal AI agent” that is powered by Gemini 3.5 and supports integrations with Google Workspace apps, including Gmail — The AI agent is rolling out to testers this week. — Google has announced a “24/7 personal AI agent” … | Lance Whitney / ZDNET: |
Google restructures its AI plans, introducing a $100/month AI Ultra plan for developers and cutting the top-tier Ultra subscription from $250 to $200/month — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google has introduced a cheaper AI Ultra plan at $100 a month. — The full Ultra Plan is now $50 cheaper at $200 a month.
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Google says it is expanding access to CodeMender, an “AI agent for code security” it debuted in October, by inviting select groups of experts to test the API — The company is marketing its CodeMender tool as a way to “help secure the world's code bases.”| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research; he helped found OpenAI and worked at Tesla — Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI, announced Tuesday that he's joining rival AI lab Anthropic.
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| Josh Woodward / The Keyword: |
Google says the Gemini app has 900M+ MAUs across 230 countries, up from 400M at I/O 2025, and launches Neural Expressive, a new design language for Gemini — Gemini is becoming a more helpful AI assistant, with an intuitive new UI, proactive daily briefs and Gemini Spark, an agent to help you get things done around the clock.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches — Powered by a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box to answer longer queries, introducing a video-generation …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's web-based AI Studio now lets users build native Android apps; Google says the apps are for personal use only for now and publishing is on the roadmap — The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday, Google announced new native Android app creation capabilities … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Plex says the price for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan will increase from $249.99 to $749.99 in July — Plex has announced a massive price increase for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan. Starting in July, Plex says that the Lifetime Plex Pass price will increase from $249.99 to a whopping $749.99.
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| New York Times: |
Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of staff, in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7,000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives — Meta told employees last month that it would carry out mass layoffs on May 20, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform into an A.I.-first company.| Wired: |
Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and with XReal's Project Aura, all set to arrive this fall — Here's your first look at smart glasses coming from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Google and Samsung's XR platform.
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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple unveils Apple Intelligence-powered accessibility features, subtitles generated on device, a Vision Pro feature for controlling power wheelchairs, and more — In what I expect will be an overarching theme at WWDC 2026, Apple's Accessibility group took the wraps off an impressive collection of features coming later this year.
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Bluesky: @jacob.gold, @thomasfuchs.at, and @johnvoorhees.macstories.net. Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …. Forums: r/apple
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Epic says Fortnite has returned to Apple's App Store globally, after its US relaunch in 2025, signaling confidence in a favorable outcome in an ongoing lawsuit — Epic Games said on Tuesday its popular shooter title “Fortnite” has returned to global App Stores, as the videogame maker signaled confidence … | Microsoft Devices Blog: |
Microsoft unveils Intel-based business laptops: a 13" Surface Pro for $1,950+, a 13.8" or 15" Surface Laptop for $1,950+, and a 13" Surface Laptop for $1,300+ — Every IT leader and partner we work with is navigating the same challenges: AI is changing the demands of how teams work …
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| Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: |
Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app — Seriously, who is asking for all these tools? … What you need to know — Ask YouTube now supports conversational searches instead of relying only on simple keywords.| New York Times: |
OpenAI's win against Elon Musk leaves it free to continue its IPO plans, but it still faces many issues, like rising competition and dozens of other lawsuits — A jury's rejection of Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI was a major hurdle crossed. But the maker of ChatGPT faces a list of other problems.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji is reorganizing hardware development to integrate silicon teams with product creation and speed up their work — Apple Inc. Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji is reorganizing hardware development and shifting oversight of key functions …
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| Charles Rollet / Business Insider: |
Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month; attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they expected — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month. — Google I/O 2026 attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they'd expected.| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state; the CFTC has sued Minnesota in response — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state …
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| Kyle Baird / The Block: |
Polymarket partners with Nasdaq to launch markets tied to private company milestones, including IPO timing, valuations, earnings, and secondary market activity — Quick Take — Early offerings focus on AI, fintech, and crypto unicorns, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Kraken.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Google unveils Pics, an AI image editor in Workspace that lets users edit specific elements and modify text, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra users — It's not Photoshop, but it could be better than what's in Google Photos. — Alongside an array of updates across its Workspace apps …
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google teases Android Halo, which makes an AI agent's status visible via “subtle communication” at the top of the phone screen, coming later this year — At Google IO, we were given a tease of an upcoming “Android Halo” feature that, at least on first glance, isn't clear how or what it will do.
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