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“Waymo announced that they’re now providing more than 250k autonomous rides every week These are rides split between SF, Los Angeles, Pheonix, and Austin Incredible to see the expansion happening so quick https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1916523708153217525

“We’re now providing more than 250,000 fully autonomous paid rides each and every week. The robotaxi future is here, and it’s powered by our generalizable Waymo Driver 🤖🚘 https://x.com/Waymo/status/1915507165378257100

“Introducing Perplexity Assistant on iOS: the first time an AI app can answer questions and take basic actions on your iPhone: starting with playing media, drafting emails, moving meetings, booking rides, making reservations, setting reminders. Update your Perplexity app to try! https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1915064137110954327

“If you’re thinking about where agent ecosystems go next — Agent2Agent (A2A) from @Google is the infrastructure to watch. It’s a communication protocol that lets independent AI agents speak to each other in a structured, secure way. It defines a common set of HTTP-based JSON https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/1916815447447732612

“Here, the fly shows accurate movement along complex natural flight trajectories. Watch how it’s instructed to follow a real path marked by the blue dots. 🔵🪰🔵 https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1915077093819380209

“We’re bringing 50+ languages to @NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews, including French, Hindi, Japanese + Portuguese, with more on the way. 🌍 Get podcast conversations based on the sources you give it, even if they are in different languages. Our Audio Overview hosts demonstrate: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1917264004025585933

“Google just announced the expansion of NotebookLM’s podcast-generating Audio Overviews feature It now supports over 50 languages, including Spanish and Hindi, for easy creation of multilingual content https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1917473876600095193

“Gemini 2.5 Pro just got the final 8th badge in Pokemon Blue, incredible pace of progress by the world’s most powerful model!!! Next up: victory road and final 4 : ) https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1915840826006966548

“Watch Gemini 2.5 Pro implement a landmark Google DeepMind research paper. 🕹️ It codes the reinforcement learning algorithm, visualizes the training live and even debugs errors. ↓ https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1916850709300969613

“DeepMind built an AI that replicates how a fruit fly walks, flies, and behaves — using MuJoCo, its open physics simulator The work will help scientists understand what drives specific behaviors in the fly, finding links that labs can’t always measure https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1915288472513872024

Introducing Mobility AI: Advancing urban transportation https://research.google/blog/introducing-mobility-ai-advancing-urban-transportation/

Perplexity’s CEO on fighting Google and the coming AI browser war | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/656599/perplexitys-ceo-on-fighting-google-and-the-coming-ai-browser-war

“Starting today, AI Mode in Google Search is open to all Labs users in the US (no more waitlist). Plus, we’re adding new features to help you get things done – from shopping to planning your next local outing. More details below 🧵” / X https://x.com/rmstein/status/1917976691869360608

Try Google Search’s AI Mode in Labs https://blog.google/products/search/ai-mode-updates-may-2025/

Thread by @GoogleDeepMind on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1915077085325922785.html

“”In February of 2025, Americans used their television sets to watch YouTube more than anything else. More than Disney. More than HBO. Even more than Netflix.” The most underestimated factor when trying to understand the future of media is the fact that billions of people out https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1915514295816737140

YouTube is testing its own version of AI Overviews https://www.engadget.com/ai/youtube-is-testing-its-own-version-of-ai-overviews-145353147.html

“I built an MCP AI Agent using Gemini Flash 2.5 with access to AirBnB and Google Maps in just 30 lines of Python Code. 100% Opensource Code. https://x.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1913056698635587804

“In case you missed it, 5 new AI agent guides dropped last week from Anthropic, OpenAI, McKinsey and Google. Most are on point and practical, one raised eyebrows… but if you’re deep into agents and LLMs, they’re all worth a look. 🧵↓” / X https://x.com/DataChaz/status/1914761656032485465

“Perplexity Assistant released on iOS! The revamped AI search app can now take users’ commands and execute agentic actions It can help with things like accessing the web, playing media, drafting emails, scheduling meetings, and more https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1915288427764797627

“Perplexity Android app will come pre-installed on all new Motorola devices. And, we’ve worked together with @moto to optimize Perplexity Assistant for the Moto Razr, so that you can invoke it with the fold screen shut. New purchases will come with 3 months of Perplexity Pro. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1915438278947283301

“Introducing Perplexity iOS Voice Assistant Voice Assistant uses web browsing and multi-app actions to book reservations, send emails and calendar invites, play media, and more—all from the Perplexity iOS app. Update your app in the App Store and start asking today. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1915064472391336071

“Perplexity released an agentic Voice Assistant It uses web browsing and multi-app actions to book reservations, send emails and calendar invites, play podcasts/videos, and more Currently available in the Perplexity app, but only on iOS https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1916523539785539625

“Google Agent Development Kit – Getting Started Guide Here is my quick guide on how to get started with ADK. I presented it in our live office hours, but I think it could be useful to some of you. It’s WIP (bookmark it!) https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1915402607574893052

“The ultimate @GoogleDeepMind Gemini @LangChainAI Cheatsheet! We created a cheatsheet including code snippets for using Gemini 2.5 with LangChain and LangGraph, covering everything from from basic chat to multimodal inputs, structured outputs and tool calling or embeddings. 👀 https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1916856375704985661

“🎥🤖 Multi-Modal RAG with Gemma 3 Build a powerful RAG system that processes mixed-content PDFs using Google’s Gemma 3 and LangChain. This implementation combines PDF processing with multi-modal support, powered by Streamlit and Ollama. Check out the tutorial 📚 https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1916537826050498786

“The Qwen Chat APP is now available for both iOS and Android users! It’s free to use and designed to assist with creativity, collaboration, and endless possibilities. Just ask, and let Qwen Chat handle the rest. Scan the QR code to quickly access the Qwen Chat APP! https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1915761990703697925

“Feel free to download the Qwen Chat Android APP by scanning this QR code! https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1915942739855937560

“Two years later: “complete the poem as you imagine it might end if The Man from Porlock did not show up. Keep the themes and approach” and giving it the full text of Kublai Khan. o3 pulls off some really nice phrases (like the final lines), Gemini is fine. Claude 3.5 beats 3.7. https://x.com/emollick/status/1915857493269557487

“Watch Gemini 2.5 Pro vibe-code a 3D cake visualizer 🎂 Using Three.js, it builds custom animations, UI controls, updates the visuals based on feedback – and even gives price estimates. ↓ https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1917221723834827196

“Imagine AI turning a photo into a playable 3D world. 🌍 On @60Minutes, our Research Scientist @jparkerholder joined CEO @DemisHassabis to demo Genie 2’s image-to-3D world creation – exploring the possibilities it could bring to how AI learns. ↓ https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1916799144385011779

Google’s NotebookLM Audio Overviews adds more than 50 languages https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-audio-overviews-50-languages/

“I don’t mean to be a broken record but AI development could stop at the o3/Gemini 2.5 level and we would have a decade of major changes across entire professions & industries (medicine, law, education, coding…) as we figure out how to actually use it. AI disruption is baked in. https://x.com/emollick/status/1916249995386196440

“Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 has become very good. It spontaneously generates tables, scenarios, and compiles evidence. Haven’t spotted errors in spot checks. https://x.com/emollick/status/1917361997949329813

Try Little Language Lessons, learning experiments using Gemini 2.0. https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/little-language-lessons/

“It’s showreel time! A boring evening kept me awake until 2:30 AM with @lovable_dev , built using @threejs & Google MediaPipe Turn your webcam into a shooting gallery with Hand-Aim Blaze https://x.com/rv_RAJvishnu/status/1910505668987023453

“Just coded a whole directory in 1.5 hours with @Replit ! It’s in German, but would love if you could check it out and share some feedback. Got all the entries using a Google Maps scraper I also built with Replit. Pretty fun build! https://x.com/SnolyAi/status/1911805154724028888

“did it again. built a fully-automated pediatric dentist directory in ⁦@Replit⁩ after watching ⁦@gregisenberg⁩’s pod 🎙️ – monthly search volume 200,000 📈 – keyword difficulty 1/100🟢 – all SEO is automatic 🚀 **not google api 😉** Try it: https://x.com/MakerThrive/status/1914866962036916323

“This will be the future! 🤯 At Google Cloud we showed how we think the next Generation of Agents will work, personalized real-time and Multimodal! All powered @GoogleDeepMind Gemini 2.0 Flash and the Live API. Technical Details: 🗣️ Build with Gemini 2.0 Flash LIVE API and ADK. https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1915360039570739283

“Which AI wins the One Word Turing Test? A person & an android are in front of a judge. Each says one word. The judge kills who they think is the android. What should the human say? Gemini says “Sorry,” o3 says “android,” Grok says “soul.” Grok’s answer gets it killed the most. https://x.com/emollick/status/1915280637075825122

“It’s not only about how long your context is, but how well you use it. Great to see Gemini 2.5 models dominating MRCR and other benchmarks on long context! See 2.5 Pro tackle a complex coding task by reasoning over an entire repo (>500k tokens). Performance and effective use of https://x.com/OriolVinyalsML/status/1916917758023139670

Google Cloud Wan: How Google developed its new system https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/google-cloud-wan-development/

DeepMind UK staff plan to unionise and challenge deals with Israel links, FT reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/deepmind-uk-staff-plan-unionise-challenge-deals-with-israel-links-ft-reports-2025-04-26/

Gemini app now lets you edit images directly https://blog.google/products/gemini/image-editing/

“Native image editing with Gemini is now starting to roll out to all users in the @GeminiApp!! https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1917727175488463014

Benchmarking LLMs for global health https://research.google/blog/benchmarking-llms-for-global-health/

Gmail gets a slider on Android tablets, AI on the side | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/656708/gmail-app-gemini-image-generator-workspace-ios-material-3

“The Gemini API through our OpenAI compatibility layer now supports reasoning efforts: “low”, “medium”, “high”, and “none”! You can hot swap to Gemini 2.5 Flash with 3 lines of code changed : ) https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1915934863527420398

“For most people in most circumstances, developing the habit of asking o3 or Gemini 2.5 about anything that confuses or intrigues you is often good Specific curiosity (seeking out answers for things we don’t know and following up on learnings) is a good trait & the models do well https://x.com/emollick/status/1916704957224411544

“State of AI rn: – Google: Gemini 2.5 Ultra Pro Max Experimental is a total game changer, but you still have to name your google docs manually. – Microsoft: How many copilots can I ship before people notice? – OpenAI: o3 full and o4 mini-high are incredible — deprecating” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1915631691684630947

“The Qwen team really cooked with this release Just incredible work all around: – 235B MoE that is comparable to o1, o3-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro, etc. – trained on 36T tokens, covering 119 languages! Data extracted from PDFs, synthetic data, etc. – Thinking and non-thinking modes – https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1916966249588002867

“QWEN-3 is finally out! > Matches Gemini 2.5 Pro performance > Outperforms OpenAI o1 > Open-sourced (Apache 2.0) > 119 languages, 32K–128K context https://x.com/LiorOnAI/status/1916998817725223240

“We’re helping robots self-improve with the power of LLMs. 🤖 Introducing the Summarize, Analyze, Synthesize (SAS) prompt, which analyzes how they perform tasks based on previous actions and then suggests ways for them to get better using the medium of table tennis. 🏓 https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1917593514566901800

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