Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
…Alongside these agentic additions coming to Search, Google also announced a new underlying model, Gemini 3.5 Flash, as the global default model for AI Mode answers, as well as improvements to…
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Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?
…Microsoft’s biggest announcement at Build was about agents and its OpenClaw adoption, through a product called Scout. You helped make that happen and even brought OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger into the…
AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials
…chief medical officer and announced it had raised $600 million in its first funding round to gear up for clinical trials. Meanwhile, the company has been building a clinical development team. Its…
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
…DeepMind tagline ‘to build AI responsibly to benefit humanity,’” the DeepMind employee told WIRED. “The direction of travel is to further militarization of the AI models we’re building here.” Increasingly, that…
The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley's Giants
…In 2022, they were hired by Stability AI and released Stable Diffusion, a popular open source AI image generator based on their prior research. But two years later, they announced their departure…
Tim Cook’s Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription
…In 2024 the company announced “Apple Intelligence,” a new moniker for AI features that would be embedded into products like Siri. But after postponing the release of an AI-enhanced Siri in…
Googlebook Is Google’s New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android
Google announced the platform on The Android Show on YouTube, where it also detailed new features coming in Android 17 and Gemini Intelligence (you can read more about that here). Google is…
Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
…As more companies build OpenClaw-style tools for productivity, many of these releases are directly targeting office workers. Google’s version, called Gemini Spark, was announced at that company’s recent developer…
These New Smart Glasses From Ex-OnePlus Engineers Have a Hidden Cost
CEO and founder Gary Chen, who has worked on wearable devices for companies like Oppo, OnePlus, and HTC, says his company’s glasses are focused on travelers, with AI features that act…
OpenAI Buys Some Positive News
…And with the mission of bringing AGI to the world comes a responsibility to help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates—with builders and people…