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Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses

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Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View

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With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

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Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View

Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.

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Elon Musk said Sam Altman “stole” a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims

“By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.”

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Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply-chain attack

The attacks are part of a wider campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which has already compromised several open source projects and, in turn, developers and companies that use them.

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The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling

"The Light Phone is designed to be used as little as possible," founder Joe Hollier told TechCrunch.

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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team

Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company.

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OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models

OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.

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Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start

Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation — starting with Omni Flash.

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Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside Antigravity 2.0 launch.

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Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep

Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update.

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Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration

At the Google I/O developer conference, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.

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Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow you across the entire internet

The tech giant says it's aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why it's launching Universal Cart.

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Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build Android apps faster from the command line.

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Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude

The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.

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Google just declared itself a contender in AI design

The tech giant says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.

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Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.

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Google’s AI now lets you talk to your Gmail inbox

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

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Google Search as you know it is over

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

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How to use Google’s new information agents

Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.

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With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference.

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Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses

Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View

Elon Musk said Sam Altman &#8220;stole&#8221; a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims

Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply-chain attack

The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang&#8217;s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic&#8217;s pre-training team

OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models

Google&#8217;s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that&#8217;s just the start

Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool

Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep

Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration

Google&#8217;s new Universal Cart wants to follow you across the entire internet

Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google&#8217;s release of Android CLI

Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude

Google just declared itself a contender in AI design

Google&#8217;s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

Google&#8217;s AI now lets you talk to your Gmail inbox

Google Search as you know it is over

How to use Google’s new information agents

With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

Google takes a page out of Meta&#8217;s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses

Older stories and past days

Elon Musk said Sam Altman “stole” a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims

The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team

Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start

Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow you across the entire internet

Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

Google’s AI now lets you talk to your Gmail inbox

Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses