📢 Breaking news: Google opens access to Bard, its... AI-powered chatbot. Bard seems like Google's answer to Microsoft's new Bing although it's not clear if it offers any features that are significantly different of better than Bing. With the new Bing, Microsoft wants to increase its share of the internet search market, currently dominated by Google. More than 80% internet searches done in the world are done on Google. The word "google" has entered the dictionary as a verb. Google doesn't have to do anything flashy to retain their market share. If their Bard matches Bing, people will stay on Google out of habit.show more

[JUST IN] Google has just revealed Project "Magi," their... new #AI search engine to rival #ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and the likes! 🤯 - It will have a chat-like interface, similar to ChatGPT. - There are rumours that Google may be replacing their 10-result SERPs with Magi to provide instant answers. - The public release is expected next month for 1 million U.S. citizens, gradually increasing to 30 million by the end of the year. More info in the thread below ↓show more

We're humbled and energized by the number of people... who want to test-drive the new AI-powered Bing! In 48 hours, more than 1 million people have joined the waitlist for our preview. If you would like to join, go toshow more

Tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard are already playing... a role in education, so it's vital we all understand the benefits and risks of this new technology. We've launched a call for evidence on the role of AI in education. We want to hear from anyone who works in the sector ⬇️show more

Announcing Personal Intelligence, a more personalized Google Gemini designed... just for you. How it works: — Customized: With your permission, it reasons across your Gmail, YouTube, Google Photos, and Search apps to share hyper-relevant and context-aware responses — Secure: If enabled, you control which Google apps to connect to. This setting is off by default — Useful: From travel plans based on your Google Photos to gym recommendations based on goals you’ve shared with Gemini, you get help tailored to your world Personal Intelligence in beta is rolling out to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S., with expansions to the free tier, more countries, and AI Mode in Search to come. Take a look at the Gemini app's personalized assistance in the clip below, then let us know what you would use it for!show more

Set the Grok widget on your Android for instant... access to a real AI assistant By default, nearly all Android devices come with the Google Search widget But it’s 2025 - more than 90% of the time, you just need direct answers and an assistant that remembers your past conversations Google Search is basically irrelevant for those cases How to upgrade your home screen to Grok: ➝ Long-press the Google Search widget → tap “Remove” ➝ Long-press the home screen → Widgets → Find “Grok” → Drag to home Grok is fast, powerful, and always ready — a true AI assistant for your daily needsshow more

$GOOGL is providing one of the clearest answers yet... to whether hyperscalers are building profitable AI businesses or simply spending enormous amounts of money to defend their positions. Google Cloud grew 82% while producing a nearly 36% operating margin showing that AI infrastructure can generate pretty insane returns. That performance is also making Cloud a much more important part of Alphabet with the segment now representing more than 20% of total revenue while growing several times faster than Search, YouTube and the rest of Google Services.show more

Part of the reason IT people are being laid... off is that many of their abilities can be replaced by AI. In the past, the joke was that you would just google it, but that still required some IT knowledge. Now, you can ask AI how to fix an issue and it will walk you through how to fix most things. (if you have admin permissions to your computer) To be fair, no one knows all the weird nuances and issues that can arise with software so google has always been used to find IT fixes - but it took more research and knowing how to implement the fix before.show more

🚨Nano Banana is now inside Google Photos 6 new... things you can do with AI in Google Photos: - Describe the edits you want using your voice or text. - Request personalised edits, like removing sunglasses or fixing a smile. - Restyle your images with Nano Banana in the Photos editor. - Reimagine your photos with AI templates. - Use Ask Photos in over 100 countries and 17 new languages. - While viewing an image, start a conversation to instantly get answers about its content. Many of these features are rolling out now, so explore all the new ways AI can help you do even more with your memories in Google Photos.show more

The "Neoclouds are too scared of Jensen to offer... TPUs!" tweet reminded me of this quote from the Odd Lots episode with Hudson River Trading's Head of AI: "If you're using TPUs, you're also kind of entering a very close relationship with Google, some feeling of vendor lock in.. It's a complicated thing if you go down that path. But if you're compute hungry like the big labs, you'll take what you can get. I think Anthropic takes TPUs, Trainium, and GPUs, they need them all." You can also just look at the hoops and hurdles Google is going through to find external buyers of TPUs: - Invested $10B+ in Anthropic (and committed to invest $40B+) - Back-stopped Anthropic's data center leases so that Anthropic's data center developers can obtain financing to house the TPU's Anthropic is buying from Google - Created a new neocloud via a JV with Blackstone to offer TPUs (e.g. buy them from Google to rent) CoreWeave and Nebius are already sold out on the GPUs for which they have data center capacity to bring online.. Both want to diversify their customer bases away from hyperscalers and large AI labs. Doesn't seem to make any sense for them to offer TPUs, when Anthropic is the only company actually buying TPUs from Google, and only after being heavily incentivized to do so. $GOOG $CRWV $NBISshow more

do you understand what just happened to your computer..... Google Chrome secretly downloaded a 4GB AI model onto your device. Without asking.. Without telling you.. It's called weights.bin. It lives deep in your system folders. It powers Gemini Nano - Google's on-device AI. And if you delete it? Chrome re-downloads it automatically. Like nothing happened. Just Google deciding your hard drive is their storage unit. At 1 billion Chrome users - that's 4 BILLION gigabytes of data pushed silently across the internet. The carbon footprint alone equals tens of thousands of cars running for a year. Check your disk right now: 📁 %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel To stop it: chrome://flags → disable Optimization Guide On Device Model → restart Chrome → delete the folder. Reshare so people know what's sitting on their computers.show more

If I'm searching for a flight on Google, I... now have to scroll through two pages of ads, airlines and AI responses before I find Google Flights—which is actually superior than Skyscanner or anything else I've tried. In Google Flights, results are nearly instantaneous, you can apply filters without reloading, and there's virtually no advertising clutter. It has a price calendar, a price history graph, price-tracking alerts, and a "Best flights" ranking that weighs cost against duration and layovers instead of simply sorting by price. Why is Google burying its own superior product? Because of the EU's Digital Markets Act, of course. And now the EU is hitting Google with another billion-euro fine because it still isn't demoting its own services enough. Is there a rational justification for this beyond European hostility toward American Big Tech—an industry in which Europe has fallen hopelessly behind?show more

Are you an Insurance Advisor/Mutual Fund Distributor or advise... clients on financial products? To make life easier for financial advisors, we have now integrated the ProtectMeWell API into a Google Sheet This means that you can work on a Google Sheet and generate reports (👇) like these for your prospective customers in real-time. 🚀Would you want to be an early adopter of "ProtectMeWell on Google Sheets"? Here is the deal 1⃣ I am seeking the help of 20 passionate advisors for closed user group testing. On a first come, first serve basis. DM me, if you are interested 2⃣ I will extend access to the Google Sheets for two weeks for ₹999. 100% refundable when you provide me with at least 5 actionable areas of improvement from a usability perspective of Google Sheets. 3⃣ When it is launched for the wider audience (late August 2023) you get to use it for free until 31 March 2024 (subject to 10,000 API calls) PS: To clarify, it is not the testing exercise of API (or algorithm), which is robust and has been used by over 100K people. The focus is on the usability of Google Sheets so that a wider audience finds it easy to navigate Sounds interesting? DM me Please amplify for good karma 🙏show more

Google just wired DeepMind and Earth Engine directly into... the biggest geospatial dataset on the planet. For two decades, millions of people used Google Earth to scale the Himalayas or zoom in on their childhood neighbourhoods. In 2026, Google is basically trying to shift the entire platform toward professional execution. They turned a massive digital twin of the world into an agentic AI engine for global infrastructure. The technical foundation is (obviously) all about data. Google integrated 20-metre and 40-metre elevation contours globally. Engineers and urban planners now have instant access to the exact topographic context required for site planning anywhere on Earth. The data catalogue updates continuously to maintain the freshest imagery possible. Collaboration used to kill geospatial projects. Teams would lose momentum through stale materials or bad handoffs. Google fixed this by building frictionless data import systems. You can now drop KML, KMZ, and GeoJSON files directly onto the global map. Entire departments can align on a single source of truth, moving from a raw question to a definitive answer instantly. The biggest upgrade is the introduction of agentic geospatial intelligence. Users can open 'Ask Google Earth' and search massive satellite and Street View databases using natural language. You type a command, and the AI handles the manual data wrangling. It identifies new site locations and analyses infrastructure before you even open a spreadsheet.show more

Hedera Joins Google And IBM To Build Legal Layer... For AI Agents Hedera (Hedera) hedera-hashgraph:native has joined as a founding member of the Legal Context Protocol, a new open standard giving AI agent transactions a legal framework, per CoinTelegraph. The protocol is backed by the American Arbitration Association and firms including Google, IBM, Circle and Cardano. It aims to make legal terms, consent and dispute resolution verifiable when AI agents transact on behalf of humans. Hedera co-founder Mance Harmon said there needs to be "a clear answer to what happens if something goes wrong." Gartner projects the agentic payment economy will hit $15 trillion in spending by 2028.show more

BIG!! THOSE WHO HOLD #XRP WILL NEED BAGS TO... CONVERT THEIR XRP TO FIAT!!!! JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR, IN LEBANON IT COSTS 1 MILLION LEBANESE POUNDS TO BUY JUST 8 XRP!!! GOOGLE ITSELF INTEGRATED BANX MEDIA, A MEDIA NETWORK POWERED BY $BXE TOKEN ON THE XRP LEDGER!!!! BXE TOKEN HAS A TOTAL SUPPLY OF ONLY 490 MILLION TOKENS!!! THE SAME MARKET CAP AS SOLANA WOULD SEND BXE FROM $0.01 TO $150!!!! THAT'S THE KIND OF INSANITY WE ARE TALKING ABOUT!!! BILLIONS COULD BE MADE! DYOR! BXE TOKEN TRADE LINK ON MEXC:show more

Conducting road safety audits, scheduling maintenance, or planning logistics... routes used to require combing through imagery or, worse, driving miles of roads yourself. Not anymore. New AI-powered data layers in Google Earth are changing that. Pulling from billions of Google Street View images, these layers now spot infrastructure assets like stop signs, speed limit signs, and more to map infrastructure for you. By combining these assets into a single project and diving into Street View you can locate and validate assets on Google Earth in seconds. These layers are now available for Professional & Professional Advanced customers on web and Android, with coverage expanding over the coming weeks.show more

🚨 BITCOIN: ELON MUSK ON GOOGLE QUANTUM THREAT: "IF... YOU FORGOT THE PASSWORD TO YOUR WALLET, IT WILL BE ACCESSIBLE IN THE FUTURE" Elon Musk responded to the escalating Google quantum computing debate with his characteristic humor after Max the VC summarized Google's position as: "We've cut the quantum resources needed to break Bitcoin's encryption by 20x. We can now break it. We can prove it. We're just not going to tell you how." Max was quote-tweeting Nic Carter's original thread on Google moving its post-quantum cryptography deadline to 2029. Musk quipped "On the plus side, if you forgot the password to your wallet, it will be accessible in the future" alongside a Grok response estimating the earliest plausible date for cracking ECC-256 (used by Bitcoin and Ethereum) at late 2028-2029 under aggressive scenarios, with conservative consensus pointing to early-to-mid 2030s. An estimated 6.9M BTC (~32% of supply) sits in wallets with exposed public keys. Ethereum has an active post-quantum roadmap. Bitcoin has no coordinated migration plan.show more

We’re introducing Universal Cart — a new hub for... shopping on Google. 🛍️ It will work across merchants and across services. 🛒 You’ll be able to add things to your cart whether you're shopping on Search, the Google Gemini, YouTube or Gmail. 🛠️ The moment you add a product to your cart, it goes to work for you in the background. It finds deals and price drops, gives you insights on price history and alerts you when something comes back in stock. 🧠 It runs on our Gemini models, so your cart gets even smarter as the models improve. 💡 It also applies intelligent reasoning to your cart to help anticipate your needs. For example, if you add something to your cart that’s incompatible with something you already have in there, your cart catches it and suggests an alternative. 💲 It can find you hidden savings. Since it's built on Google Wallet, your cart understands your payment method perks, loyalty information and merchant offers so you don’t miss out on deals or points. #GoogleIOshow more

Google just built Cowork and called it Agent. And... they added one thing Anthropic didn't. You set a goal. It browses the web, digs through your Gmail, checks your Calendar, pulls from Drive then executes the full task. Book a trip. Clear your inbox. Research a market. Done. No back and forth. But here's the part nobody's talking about: There's a toggle "Require a human review." You don't build that unless the plan is to eventually not require it. Google just told you where this ends. I share updates like these in my free AI community on WhatsApp. Join here 👇show more

Google Employee Won $929,259 on Polymarket Using Inside Information?... While most traders were jumping between random markets and chasing hype, one Polymarket user focused on just one thing. He made $929,259 betting on “#1 Searched Person on Google this year.” His profile: Wallet 0xafEe, previously known as AlphaRaccoon, is widely believed by users to be a Google employee. Many think he wasn’t just guessing, but using some form of private insight. And the numbers are hard to ignore: +1,826% on a single trade. > "Will d4vd be the #1 searched person on Google this year?" > "YES" at 5% > $10,646 —> $205,108 At the time, d4vd wasn’t an obvious pick. There was no info about him before. This trader has 100% win rate on Tech markets. Was this just an insanely disciplined trader with elite intuition or someone with access to information the market didn’t have?show more