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 …

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 …

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 …

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” …

Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs, and more  —  Tasks are getting easier to automate — jobs aren't.  What now?  —  Some fun news: we're doing our first-ever Platformer live event …

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining 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.

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.

Google introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate multiple agents, alongside an Antigravity CLI tool and SDK  —  Google is introducing a new version of its agentic coding app, Google Antigravity 2.0, with an updated desktop app, a CLI tool, and an SDK for custom workflows.

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.

Threat actors published 600+ malicious versions to npm as part of the Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign; most of the affected packages are in the @antv ecosystem  —  Threat actors earlier today published more than 600 malicious packages to the Node Package Manager (npm) index as part of a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign.

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.

GitHub says it's investigating “unauthorized access” to its internal repositories, and there's no proof of customer data outside its repositories being impacted  —  We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub's internal repositories (such as our customers' enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely

The Take It Down Act, a law requiring social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines, took effect on May 19  —  The Take It Down Act is in full force, but it could be a gift to government censors — not victims of image-based sexual abuse.

Discord says voice and video calls outside of stage channels are now end-to-end encrypted by default, after launching its encryption protocol in September 2024  —  “Likely one of the internet's most platform-diverse E2EE voice and video implementations.”

Sources: SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of Cursor 30 days after its public trading debut, which is expected to occur on June 12  —  SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor 30 days after Elon Musk's company begins trading publicly …

Trump signs an EO calling on regulators and the Fed to review policies that could support fintech growth, including expanding fintech access to payment accounts  —  U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday calling on regulators and the Federal Reserve to review rules …

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 …

OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments  —  Guarantee long-term access to OpenAI compute for the products, agents, and customer workflows that matter most.  —  Plan for capacity Contact sales

Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025  —  An attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei enterprise router software caused a nationwide telecoms outage …

Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs  —  A series of precedent-setting rulings signals that Chinese courts are being enlisted to shield workers from displacement by artificial intelligence.