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βyou've been on this site and I'm sure a lot of your your listeners have too, but this is the Google lab site. Yeah. As far as I know, it's the only Google site with a hot pink banner at the top, but iβ¦β
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βyou've been on this site and I'm sure a lot of your your listeners have too, but this is the Google lab site. Yeah. As far as I know, it's the only Google site with a hot pink banner at the top, but iβ¦β
βBut maybe what I thought we could start with is Pomel. >> I don't know if you noticed this internet has been filled with videos about Pomel. It has. >> People have been loving it.β
βNoted. Okay. Two more for you. That's okay. Let's do a little Genie and then we can jump over to Gemini. So, um, Genie, I think, is one of those projects where you kind of have to see it to believe itβ¦β
βUm the new Gro 4.20 is it's really really good.β
βWe're in the final stages of completion of Optimus 3, which is really going to be by far the most advanced robot in the world. Nothing's even close.β
βNext up on stage with me is one of another great moonshot entrepreneur, Ben Lamb, who runs Colossal, uh the de-extinction company, uh you know, the woolly mammoth and 15 other species.β
βAlex Epstein wrote an excellent book fossil future in which he makes the case for fossil fuelsβ
βBuilding superconducting and neutral atom quantum computersβ
βI've just released a course in which you build a working web application in minutes. A funny interactive birthday message generator that runs in your web browser and that you can share with friends.β
βmore info on the benchmarks here: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/β
βGet a few good waterloo interns access to the ground truth payroll historic data and the union contracts and a well funded anthropic account and they can solve this problem with Claude code in a few wβ¦β
β@GoogleLabs: https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results?q=Google%20Labs&company=Googleβ
βCheck out [elixir/README.md](elixir/README.md) for instructions on how to set up your environment and run the Elixir-based Symphony implementation.β
βOh man Yahoo Tech... you got so close. You almost had it. Better luck next time!β
βreply with your AI Studio app, along with a 1-sentence story on how and why you vibe coded itβ
βGemini 3.1 Flash Live is rolling out now in Gemini Live in the @GeminiApp and @Google Search Live.β
βwe are designing something special for Google IO and we want you to be part of itβ
βNote: If you are on Chrome and have recently updated to version 142, you will need to disable the [`local-network-access` flag](https://developer.chrome.com/release-notes/142#local_network_access_restβ¦β
βThis example uses the [Apps SDK UI library](https://github.com/openai/apps-sdk-ui) for simple components such as images, buttons, and badges.β
βCheck out our blog post for details: https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-ttsβ
βI was just listening to β the Elon β John Collison Door Cash podcast on on β data center space which is you know β I haven't listened to it yet so apologies if I don't knowβ
βIt's here! https://t.co/5Uzdj9c4cPβ
βYC's next batch is now taking applications got a startup in Apply at ycombinator.com/apply. It's never too early and filling out the app will level up your idea.β
βRead more: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-apis-power-ai-browsing-on-samsung-devicesβ
βWeβre sharing new research into how AI might be misused to exploit emotions or manipulate people into making harmful choices.β
βI mean, before Google, there was Alta Vista. There was CompuServe as online social kind of thing. Alta Vista was the search engine.β
βWeβve built an empirically validated, first-of-its-kind toolkit to measure AI manipulation in the real world β to better understand how it can occur and help protect people.β
β# gpuer β Show GPU usage with a macOS menu iconβ
βGpuer uses macOS system interfaces and command-line tools rather than private frameworks.β
βExperiment with Voxtral TTS directly in the Mistral Studio playground.β
βPeople (think they) hate AI-generated text, and since AI appears in the presentation I just wanted to clarify that.β
βIntroducing the Anthropic Science Blog.β
βRead more: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/harness-design-long-running-appsβ
β# bandwidther β SwiftUI menu bar app for monitoring application bandwidth useβ
β# client-ts β TS Client library for Mistral AI platformβ
βCreate your account on [La Plateforme](https://console.mistral.ai) to get access and read the [docs](https://docs.mistral.ai) to learn how to use it.β
βread the [docs](https://docs.mistral.ai) to learn how to use it.β
βThe SDK can be installed with either [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/), [pnpm](https://pnpm.io/), [bun](https://bun.sh/) or [yarn](https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/) package managers.β
βGet your own Mistral API Key: <https://docs.mistral.ai/#api-access>β
βWe have dedicated SDKs for the following providers: - [GCP](https://github.com/mistralai/client-ts/tree/main/packages/mistralai-gcp)β
βSymphony works best in codebases that have adopted [harness engineering](https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/).β
βSwiftUI menu bar app for monitoring macOS GPU and memory stats.β
βThis project is licensed under the [Apache License 2.0](LICENSE).β
βChatKit is a batteries-included framework for building high-quality, AI-powered chat experiences. Itβs designed for developers who want to add advanced conversational intelligence to their apps fastβwβ¦β
βhttps://github.com/openai/chatkit-jsβ
β- [Starter app](https://github.com/openai/openai-chatkit-starter-app) - Clone a repo to start with a fully working templateβ
β- [Samples](https://github.com/openai/openai-chatkit-advanced-samples) - See working examples of ChatKit and get inspiredβ
βWe recommend using this library when working with models that use the [harmony response format][harmony-format]β
βSo you can go to tokenprobe.cchs.colia.edu. Is it still running? It's still running. It's still running and people come to it. Uh I use it in my classes uh to get students to do assignments.β
βYou know, this was before Product Hunt, before Techrunch, before I was the first one to link to Techrunch, the first one to link to Product Hunt, the first one to link to Tech Meme.β
βYou know, this was before Product Hunt, before Techrunch, before I was the first one to link to Techrunch, the first one to link to Product Hunt, the first one to link to Tech Meme.β
βYou know, this was before Product Hunt, before Techrunch, before I was the first one to link to Techrunch, the first one to link to Product Hunt, the first one to link to Tech Meme.β
βI mean, before Google, there was Alta Vista. There was CompuServe as online social kind of thing. Alta Vista was the search engine.β
βhttps://garryslist.org/posts/richmond-just-voted-to-reinstate-their-flock-cameras-after-crime-spikedβ
βChandler Lugjitsa is the CEO of Galedai, next generation missile propulsion.β
βTurner Caldwell is the CEO of Marian Minerals, critical mineral supply chains.β
βSpaces: A CLI Built for Humans and Agentsβ
βThis is a very good postβ
βAnd that right there is a poem called familiar faces which is written by Jerry Alieri who was a soldier team and squad leader with team Catamountβ
βRead more here: https://lovable.dev/blog/announcing-pentestingβ
βI ran a website for ICQ. Do you you did you ever use ICQ?β
βI also had a Microsoft Net Meeting site because they were com combined. They both work together.β
βWorks in Progress continues to get better with each issue. Highly recommend a subscription -- https://worksinprogress.co/print/β
β(I particularly recommend Isla in Durham.)β
βOur new research partnership will integrate the Gemini foundation models with their hardware to help build the next generation of more helpful and useful robots. Find out more β https://www.agile-roboβ¦β
βpeople rarely need all the APIs supported in LiteLLM, might as well build a custom router with only what you need on the flyβ
β- Jeremy Grantham (EP.493)β
βMake your own App Store.β
βHad a great time talking enterprise AI and entrepreneurship with @levie & @villageglobal last night!β
βIn zero-shot custom voice tests, Voxtral TTS outperformed ElevenLabs v2.5 Flash - judged by native speakers for naturalness, accent accuracy, and similarity to the original voice.β
βLive per-process download/upload rates via `nettop`β
βConnection summaries come from `lsof -iTCP -n -P`β
βFor questions about the repo, I recommend either using [DeepWiki](https://deepwiki.com/karpathy/nanochat) from Devin/Cognition to ask questions about the repo, or use the [Discussions tab](https://gitβ¦β
βFor questions about the repo, I recommend either using [DeepWiki](https://deepwiki.com/karpathy/nanochat) from Devin/Cognition to ask questions about the repo, or use the [Discussions tab](https://gitβ¦β
βBoot up a new 8XH100 GPU box from your favorite provider (e.g. I use and like [Lambda](https://lambda.ai/service/gpu-cloud)), and kick off the training script:β
βSo we decided to build Stripe Projects to help agents instantly provision services from the CLI.β
βTesla cars, especially with FSD, are the safest in the worldβ
βEmergent Ventures India, 16th cohort: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/04/emergent-ventures-india-16th-cohort.htmlβ
βMy South Africa interview with Ann Bernstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl5loZZUkMk#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=b2726b10-3e56-4fab-893d-b8dd2db20300β
βApps SDK UI is a lightweight, accessible design system for building high-quality ChatGPT apps β
βApps SDK UI requires **React 18 or 19** and **Tailwind 4**. - React: https://react.dev/learn/installation - Tailwind 4: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installationβ
βyou can actually just point it at my open github repo and what skill file I have, and OpenClaw will just act as if it were a native OpenClaw skill!β
βTry Extract v2 today ββ
βText to Video https://replicate.com/wan-video/wan-2.7-t2vβ
βStart with Sunspring (2016), a short film starring Thomas Middleditch and written by AI, now a time capsule that mocks AI writing for being incoherent and absurd rather than blandβ
βBuilding on earlier work (Meirom, Mor, Weinstein Arxiv 2505.12441), we utilize a benchmarking strategy applicable for comparing these two architectures by measuring "quantumness" directly on optimal sβ¦β
βSpeaking of Voxtralβ
β@galligatorβ
βI'm giving his post to my agent and will ask it to help me talk to it better.β
βWe launched ACQ Ventures.β
βRead the full paper: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotions/index.htmlβ
βπ Nova-3 + Nova-3 Multilingual: production transcription for noisy, real-world, and multilingual audioβ
βπ Nova-3 + Nova-3 Multilingual: production transcription for noisy, real-world, and multilingual audioβ
βπ Aura-2: enterprise TTS with sub-200ms TTFB for clear, structured speechβ
βIt was like a personalized Stack Overflow.β
βIn this paper, we present the AnIML Ontology, an OWL 2 ontology that formalises the semantics of AnIML and aligns it with the Allotrope Data Format to support future cross-system and cross-lab interopβ¦β
βImage to Video https://replicate.com/wan-video/wan-2.7-i2vβ
βan OWL 2 ontology that formalises the semantics of AnIML and aligns it with the Allotrope Data Format to support future cross-system and cross-lab interoperability.β
βTo read more about standalone functions, check [FUNCTIONS.md](./FUNCTIONS.md).β
βEvery founder and CEO should read all they can about the drama triangle.β