Google / Gemini

Anthropic is in early talks to raise at least $30 billion at a pre-money valuation above $900 billion, with the deal closing as soon as the end of this month under the reported timetable.

Google launched Googlebook, its first laptop designed around Gemini Intelligence, with three disclosed mechanisms: Magic Pointer as an AI interaction entry point, natural-language widget creation, and Android-based cross-device app and file access.

Cactus open-sourced Needle, a 26M-parameter tool-calling model that reaches 6,000 tok/s prefill and 1,200 tok/s decode on consumer devices, with MIT-licensed weights released on Hugging Face.

Cactus Compute open-sourced Needle, a 26M-parameter tool-calling model that reaches 6,000 tok/s prefill and 1,200 tok/s decode on consumer devices, using an attention-and-gating architecture with no MLPs.

Google introduced Android Intelligence at Android Show 2026, with multi-step automation across Android apps, browser-use features for Gemini in Chrome, automatic form filling, Rambler voice-note transcription, and custom Gen UI widgets; the post does not disclose rollout timing, supported devices, or pricing.

Google and SpaceX are discussing orbital data centers for AI compute, while the post says current space costs remain higher than ground infrastructure; the RSS snippet does not disclose cost gaps, deployment scale, or a timeline.

Google Developers describes using ADK to build long-running agents for enterprise workflows lasting days or weeks, such as HR onboarding, with a persistent state machine, persistent session storage, event-driven webhooks, and multi-agent delegation to pause during idle time and resume after restarts without losing context.

Google announced AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, and refreshed Android Auto ahead of I/O; the RSS snippet does not disclose specs, pricing, availability, or rollout timelines.

Google announced Gemini Intelligence at its pre-I/O Android showcase, placing Gemini in Chrome on Android, autofill suggestions, and in-app actions; the RSS snippet does not disclose supported device models, rollout timing, or pricing.

Google is adding Gemini Intelligence to Android, and the RSS snippet only discloses Gboard-based dictation and form-filling capabilities; the post does not disclose launch timing, supported devices, pricing, or technical implementation details.

Google adds Gemini-powered dictation to Gboard for an initial launch on Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones; the post does not disclose supported languages, pricing, offline behavior, or a rollout date.

Google DeepMind published Co-Scientist research in Nature, introducing a Gemini-based multi-agent AI system that iteratively generates, debates and evolves new hypotheses for complex scientific problems.

Thinking Machines released TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B-parameter MoE model with 12B active parameters, and the post says it advances realtime voice through 200ms time-aligned microturns, encoder-free early fusion for audio and images under 200ms, and benchmark wins over GPT-Realtime-2 and Gemini 3.1-Flash.

Cerebras increased its IPO offering plan by one-third to as much as $4.8 billion; the post also mentions Circle’s first-quarter revenue and Google researchers’ first AI-built zero-day attack, but does not disclose details.

Gemini App says Personal Intelligence generates personalized travel itineraries when users connect Gmail, Google Photos, Google Search, and YouTube history, and the post says users can choose connected apps and manage personalization settings at any time.

Google says GTIG found and stopped its first AI-developed zero-day exploit, and the attackers planned a mass exploitation event to bypass two-factor authentication on an unnamed open-source web-based system administration tool; the post does not disclose the tool name.

OpenRouter says Pareto Code observes the Pareto frontier using real market demand; DeepSeek V4 Pro ranks first, followed by GPT 5.4 Mini and Gemini 3.1 Pro, while the post does not disclose the scoring formula or evaluation sample size.

Google quietly shut down Project Mariner on May 4, and the post says Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI reached the same conclusion: standalone browser agents do not work, while GUI automation still has room outside headless dedicated environments.

Baidu released ERNIE 5.1 with total parameters reduced to about one third of the original scale, active parameters to about one half, and pretraining cost to about 6% of same-scale models; the model is available on the ERNIE platform and Baidu AI Studio.

Google DeepMind describes AlphaEvolve as a Gemini-powered coding agent; the body is only an RSS snippet. The title discloses coding-agent scope and cross-field impact, but the post does not disclose model version, benchmarks, or deployments.