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.

Dell COO Says Agentic AI Is Breaking Cloud Economics, Forcing Data Center Rebuild

Dell’s Jeff Clarke says token consumption for AI reasoning is up 320x as agentic systems break cloud economics, forcing a complete rethink of enterprise data center architecture.

Defining An Intelligent Business

Some thoughts on data quality, semantic layers, human adoption, and practical strategies for building intelligent businesses

An AI announcer mispronounced and skipped names during a graduation
An AI announcer mispronounced and skipped names during a graduation

The use of AI-powered tools to announce students as they walk on stage during graduation and commencement ceremonies has grown in popularity over the past few years, but it’s not always succeeding at the one job it’s there for. Many schools have switched to these systems as a way to ensure names are being pronounced […]

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

Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training. He previously co-founded and worked at OpenAI and led computer vision and AI at Tesla.

Anduril’s $61 Billion Valuation Is A Bet On Pentagon Speed

Anduril’s valuation looks extreme next to incumbent defense primes. But investors are pricing in a Pentagon procurement model moving at venture speed.

America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here
America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here

A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims – and at worst could facilitate censorship online. Last May, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a law addressing nonconsensual intimate imagery […]

Google Code Exposes Two Distinct Gemini Agent Identities Ahead Of I/O

Even $250/month Ultra subscribers will face hard usage caps on both new AI tools.

Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had

Stilta announced Tuesday a $10 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors in the round include YC and operators from companies like OpenAI, Legora, and Lovable. 

Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot
Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot

Gemini has a creep problem. A few years ago, that little sparkle icon started showing up in all of our Google apps. Gemini in your inbox! Gemini in your Google Drive! It was slow at first, and easy enough to tune out, but something has changed in the past few months. Gemini is creeping. It’s […]