Google unveils new audio-equipped smart glasses at IO 2026, excerpts from Mehta’s book
Google is getting into the smart glasses game (again). At Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced new partnerships with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to produce a new line of AI-powered glasses. The devices are built to pair with Android and iOS devices and were designed in collaboration with Samsung, the company said. The […]
With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets the next wave of AI on agents, not chatbots
Google announced Gemini 3.5 Flash on Tuesday. This is a new AI model that the company claims is the most powerful yet for coding and autonomous AI agents. The model, announced at the company’s annual Google I/O developer conference, allows developers to run coding pipelines independently, manage research projects, and build operating systems completely from […]
As you know, Google search is dead
The era of “10 blue links” is officially over. At the Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google announced an overhaul of AI-powered search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box.” The company says this is the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box was introduced more than 25 years […]
Google updates Gemini app to counter ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026
At its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday, Google announced a series of new updates to its Gemini app, including a “Daily Briefs” feature, a redesigned interface, access to a new AI video model called Gemini Omni, and a new personal AI agent called Gemini Spark. The update signals Google’s efforts to turn the Gemini […]
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and an AI researcher who previously worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic. “I joined Anthropic,” Karpathy posted on X Tuesday. “I think the next few years at the LLM front will be a particularly formative time, and I’m very excited to join the […]
Minimalist Light Phone partners with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile to reward you for stopping doomscrolling
If you’re looking for a sign to try a “dumb phone”, here it is. The trendy, minimalist Litephone has partnered with Noble Mobile, the phone network founded by entrepreneur and politician Andrew Yang, to refund your money if you use less data. On Tuesday, 500 Light Phone III models will be in stock and available […]
US cyber agency CISA releases tons of passwords and cloud keys to the open web
US cybersecurity agency CISA may have been spared a major security breach thanks to an honest security researcher who identified publicly exposed credentials that allowed access to government clouds and internal agency systems. As first reported by independent security reporter Brian Krebs, GitGuardian security researcher Guillaume Valadon found a large amount of plaintext credentials listed […]
Forget about feeds: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment
Like many young people her age, Fainur was what she calls a “chronically online teenager.” She was obsessed with music groups, TV shows, and movies, and never missed an opportunity to talk endlessly about her interests online. When ChatGPT launched in 2022, she immediately saw the potential. “AI will finally allow any user to actually […]
‘Survivor’ stars Kyle Fraser and Camila Kartiguez launch goal-tracking app ‘Paprclip’
On Survivor 48, his alliance with Kyle Fraser and castmate Camila Kartiguez led him to victory. Now, the two are teaming up in a new field and are hoping for similar results. That means we’re building a business together. On Tuesday, the new co-founders announced Paprclip, a goal-focused “social responsibility” app they hope will become […]
Solar power will dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business
Solar power will overtake coal, oil and natural gas to become the largest source of electricity over the next decade, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. A seismic shift will occur with a historic increase in energy use and the electrification of entire industries through AI. “Solar power is winning the race,” Matthias Kimmel, […]