Image created with OpenAI GPT-Image-1. Image prompt: Screenshot of a mid‑1990s web browser on a glowing CRT monitor, rendered in 256‑color dithering. Center of the page shows the iconic low‑poly 1990s “dancing infant” 3D animation (harmless meme, diaper‑clad). Above it sits a multicolored “Google Beta” wordmark over the classic search box. Crisp pixel edges, screen‑door scan‑lines, subtle phosphor glow

“Comet browser gives the first glimpse of 100x productivity” – Early Chrome PM, a16z GP. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943508746115928315

Comet invites have begun to roll out! https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943383973675340079

Comet is here. A web browser built for today’s internet. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1942969263305671143

Comet vs Chrome: memory consumption https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943759363203830015

I reached out to Chrome to offer Perplexity as a default search engine option a long time ago. They refused. Hence we decided to build @PerplexityComet browser.”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1942993484341776729

Introducing Comet: Browse at the speed of thought https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-comet

Introducing Perplexity Max. Our most valuable subscription tier yet. Built for those who demand more, Max gets you unlimited Labs queries, access to a broader suite of frontier models, and early access to products like Comet. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1940443479710257226

YouTube on Comet is so much better. iykyk”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943259809882464405

so Chrome 138+ onwards ships Gemini Nano for every user*, putting a local LLM in 3.7 billion monthly active users of Chrome
wrote a personal guide today for building with Gemini Nano – mostly for me, might help you if you’re not suuper strong at javascript or parsing google’s… unique… js documentation style. https://x.com/swyx/status/1942437525525790838

wdyt of this @googlechrome ? on comet: you can just close tabs on voice mode 🙂 looking forward to what you will ship soon”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943754539322290192

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai

The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) is testing a graph neural network built by Google’s Weather Lab. The model predicts where and how hard tropical storms will hit two weeks in advance more accurately than conventional methods. This partnership between Google and the NHC https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1942327784853930095

Veo 3 in the @GeminiApp can turn your favorite photos into 8-second videos with sound. 🖼️ ➡️ 📹 It’s available now to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. Learn more → https://x.com/Google/status/1943738854290125247

xAI gave us early access to Grok 4 – and the results are in. Grok 4 is now the leading AI model. We have run our full suite of benchmarks and Grok 4 achieves an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 73, ahead of OpenAI o3 at 70, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro at 70, Anthropic Claude https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1943166841150644622

Grok 4 Pricing: Input Token Price: $3.00 Output Token Price: $15.00 more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro and o3″” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1943168223102321003

Google DeepMind released a new series of medical vision LMs 👏 > MedSigLIP: ~900M param CLIP-like model > MedGemma-27B-it: larger MedGemma They have two insane apps for MedGemma, a scan explainer and an agent-agent doctor simulator 🤯 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1943325395102601530

An example of the type of search (would require reading multiple sites, balancing multiple constraints) where o3/Gemini 2.5 Pro has completely replaced Google for me. https://x.com/emollick/status/1941684036612571529

Introducing T5Gemma: the next generation of encoder-decoder/T5 models! 🔧Decoder models adapted to be encoder-decoder 🔥32 models with different combinations 🤗Available in Hugging Face and Kaggle https://x.com/osanseviero/status/1942977647287382332

Now you can do more with Veo 3 by transforming photos to videos 🎉”” / X https://x.com/Google/status/1943328300517958101

Google AI Just Open-Sourced a MCP Toolbox to Let AI Agents Query Databases Safely and Efficiently. Toolbox sits between your application’s orchestration framework and your database, providing a control plane that is used to modify, distribute, or invoke tools. It simplifies the https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1942505938294039039

🚀 @AgentOpsAI supports Google ADK — seamlessly integrated for tracking and debugging your ADK agents end‑to‑end. Let’s explore why ADK is a developer’s dream 👇 https://x.com/dwijptl/status/1940418304713396362

Very excited to share that @windsurf_ai co-founders @_mohansolo & Douglas Chen, and some of their talented team have joined @GoogleDeepMind to help advance our work in agentic coding in Gemini. Welcome to our new team mates from Windsurf! https://x.com/koraykv/status/1943791058909052985

I can’t get enough of Gemini CLI + MCP. It’s wild how much I love working in the CLI, even for things like writing, analyzing, and searching. I was already doing most of this stuff in IDEs, but my favorite way of working has always been the CLI.”” / X https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1941977062236971330

🚨 Veo 3 now lets you generate audio + video starting from an image This one is cool – I started with JUST the first frame of the model and prompted the dialogue, the addition of a second character, and the action in the scene. Huge breakthrough for character consistency! https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1942371183644794987

Exclusive: Google’s AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/googles-ai-overviews-hit-by-eu-antitrust-complaint-independent-publishers-2025-07-04/

How to use Gemini on a Wear OS smartwatch https://blog.google/products/wear-os/gemini-wear-os-watches/

Introducing MatFormer Lab for Gemma 3n 🧑‍🔬 Use Mix-n-Match to slice the E4B and create a model with a custom size between 2B and 4B effective parameters Explore the quality-size trade-off and share your models with the community Try it out: https://x.com/osanseviero/status/1942562469983248753

Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes? Sort of… – SimEdw’s Blog https://simedw.com/2025/07/10/gemini-bounding-boxes/

RT @OfficialLoganK: We just shipped “”Batch mode”” in the Gemini API with 50% discounts on our 2.5 models and the ability to enqueue billions…”” / X https://x.com/QuixiAI/status/1942366387407880360

We just shipped “”Batch mode”” in the Gemini API with 50% discounts on our 2.5 models and the ability to enqueue billions of tokens at a time! https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1942245069383434696

After “Plan mode” here is “Explain Mode” for Gemini CLI. 📝 When working on a large codebase or if you are new to a project you always need time to understand the project structure, what features are implemented and how. What if you can ask and use Gemini to help to get you up to https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1942617817549005088

🚨 Leaderboard Disrupted! A big update for Text-to-Image fans. New models have just landed in the Text-to-Image leaderboard breaking into the Top 10 rankings! Let’s break them down 🧵 💠#2: Imagen 4 Ultra 💠#4: Flux-1 Kontext Max 💠#5: Flux-1 Kontext Pro 💠#7: Ideogram v3 https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1942284806550933596

3 new models live in the Arena today 🎇 🧠 Mistral Small 2506: latest 24B open model (Apache-2.0), tuned for efficiency by @MistralAI 🎨 Imagen 4 Ultra: latest text-to-image from @GoogleDeepMind 🖌️ Ideogram v3 Quality: latest text-to-image model from @Ideogram_AI Your votes https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1941201546420822489

RT @wesbos: Hot tip for anyone doing AI dev: Use Ollama to easily run models like Deepseek-r1 or Gemma locally on your machine. It downlo…”” / X https://x.com/ollama/status/1943045424283312233

Has there been any clear information from Meta over whether their new superintelligence initiative is going to still be open weights first? Or will they follow Google & OpenAI and keep frontier models closed & release less capable models open weights? Or are they entirely closed?”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1942364863478550659

Isomorphic Labs has grand ambitions to ‘solve all diseases’ with AI | Fortune https://fortune.com/2025/07/06/deepmind-isomorphic-labs-cure-all-diseases-ai-now-first-human-trials/

MedGemma: Our most capable open models for health AI development https://research.google/blog/medgemma-our-most-capable-open-models-for-health-ai-development/

Whatever your OKRs were, forget that. If you can save lives… that’s what you should be focused on.”” That’s what Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the Earth team when Hurricane Katrina struck. Their response directly saved over 4,000 lives. Fresh, hourly aerial imagery gave first https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1942584042463076638

We’re excited to introduce AB-MCTS! Our new inference-time scaling algorithm enables collective intelligence for AI by allowing multiple frontier models (like Gemini 2.5 Pro, o4-mini, DeepSeek-R1-0528) to cooperate. Blog: https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1939854145856708910

Here’s how we designed and built our Vercel Ship conference platform. We generated 15,000+ images and videos with tools like Flux, Veo 2, Runway, and Ideogram. Then, we moved to v0 for prototyping. See our iterations, examples, tech stack, and more. https://x.com/vercel/status/1932872902535192673

Host @fryrsquared gets a personal demo of our newest AI tools in our podcast – covering everything from Veo 3 to vibe coding in @GoogleAI Studio – all with our Developer Relations Engineering lead @DynamicWebPaige. Watch their conversation now. ↓ Timecodes: 00:00 Coming up https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1943300818469314811

I used Veo 3 to solve Shakespearean tragedies as pictured in classical art. https://x.com/emollick/status/1943061819331088434

More strange cities, this time in Veo 3. I am pretty impressed by how well Veo 3 animates Midjourney images. All of these clips, including the sounds, were generated in a single shot from a Midjourney image & a simple prompt (I picked the best videos from a set of two options). https://x.com/emollick/status/1942451631469052062

RT @GeminiApp: ✨📦✨ Special delivery! A new Gemini feature just dropped. Make photos come alive by turning them into videos with sound.”” / X https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1943434454309179779

Super fun (and highly requested!) additional functionality to Gemini… you can now instantly turn your photos into videos! Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers can try it at https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1943361375780082130

The wait is over. @GeminiApp is now shipping Veo 3 *globally* for all Pro members! That means India, Indonesia, all of Europe, and more are starting to get access to create videos right now. As a member, you’ll get 3 video generations per day, and that credit will replenish https://x.com/joshwoodward/status/1940612473263923385

Two years later, quite a difference. This is Veo 3, same prompt “The most American thing ever “ (from the first set of videos generated). https://x.com/emollick/status/1941257842088083935

🔥 Manus AI + Veo 3 results: → 2.1M views on automated Yeti videos → 8-second clips with perfect dialogue sync → $39/month for unlimited cinematic content → 80 clips = 10+ minute YouTube video → Works in landscape format for all platforms Traditional video production: https://x.com/JulianGoldieSEO/status/1933177485623177258

Chrome shouldn’t be forced as a default browser on Android.”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943296565910868169

Users should be asked to select their default browser during onboarding on Android. Something like this. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943304658174513456

RT @patloeber: Excited to introduce GenAI Processors! An Open-Source Python library from @GoogleDeepMind that allows you to build asynchro…”” / X https://x.com/osanseviero/status/1943381135825805313

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