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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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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability …
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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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| Macy Meyer / CNET: |
Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more — Google Flow's family of products gets agentic updates, mobile apps and the Omni Flash treatment.
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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.
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| New York Times: |
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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| 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” …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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 …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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LinkedIn: Leonard Rosenthol and Kent Walker
| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
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| 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.| Josh Woodward / The Keyword: |
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| 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 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.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
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.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| 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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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GitHub confirms breach of ~3,800 repositories after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claimed responsibility for the hack — GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
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.| 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.
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| Jess Kinghorn / PC Gamer: |
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.”
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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.
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Bluesky: @socialmedialab.ca and @eff.org
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
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 … | Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| Reuters: |
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 … | 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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| Nan Ransohoff / Nan's Substack: |
An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid — AI is about to generate hundreds of billions in new philanthropic funding. We have a huge amount of work to do to make the most of it.| OpenAI: |
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
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X: @sama, @gdb, @openai, @mweinbach, @edzitron, @sama, @quinnypig, @iatalkspace, @edzitron, @nickadobos, @_simonsmith, @sk7037, @scaling01, and @borismpower. LinkedIn: Denise Holland Dresser. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Catie Edmondson / New York Times: |
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.
LinkedIn: Drasko Draskovic, PhD
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