… Gemini Spark isn’t available yet, but if it works the way Google says it does, it could be a big step forward for traditional tech companies’ AI agents. Google’s earliest agentic experiments completed tasks at a snail’s pace while hijacking your browser. …
… Google also folded Project Mariner’s agentic capabilities into its AI-powered search feature, AI Mode. …
… That may look like “thinking through” a lot of different potential paths, launching sub-agents to do portions of a task, or verifying the accuracy of different steps of the process. “You put in your one-sentence prompt… and it’ll talk out loud to itself for thousands and thousands of tokens, thousa… …
… The release comes a year after DeepSeek rattled the US AI industry with R1, a model it claimed was trained at a fraction of the cost of leading US systems. DeepSeek has not disclosed V4’s training costs or what hardware it was trained on. …
… Adobe says it will also bring these agentic features to third-party AI apps like Anthropic’s Claude, allowing those users to access Adobe tools outside of its own Firefly and Creative Cloud platforms. …
… The cheapest Mac Mini now costs $799 as a result, offering 512GB of storage and Apple’s M4 processor. With the AI-driven RAM shortage squeezing suppliers across the globe, many device makers are either raising the prices of their products or have stopped selling certain models completely. …
… New agents, mobile apps and Gemini Omni for Google Flow and Google Flow Music Google If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can Google has been working on agentic AI for years. …
… Meta Is Building an AI Agent Called ‘Hatch’ and an AI Shopping Tool in Instagram The Information Threads is finally getting DMs on the web Jay Peters May 5 Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying Emma Roth May 5 New Mexico has a plan to overhaul Facebook and Instagram Lauren Fein… …
… From AI Overviews you can keep asking questions in AI Mode, which generates a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about instead of showing you a traditional list of links. …
… I’ve also been dying to talk to software CEOs about what AI is doing inside their companies, as AI coding tools and agentic systems upend software development. …