The Daily Index — Wednesday, April 15, 2026 · TLDR Index

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GOOGLE SKILLS IN CHROME

Google introduced “Skills” in Chrome, enabling users to save and reuse AI prompts powered by Gemini across websites. The feature extended in-browser AI workflows by allowing one-click execution of common tasks like summarization or content transformation.

blog.google · 4 min

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GOOGLE TESTS CANVAS AND CONNECTORS ON NOTEBOOKLM

Google is expanding NotebookLM with Canvas features for creating visual and interactive experiences from existing notebook sources. The new Connectors option suggests integration with other Google services, positioning NotebookLM as a central research layer. Labeling features and auto-categorization could streamline navigation for heavy users managing large source libraries.

testingcatalog.com · 2 min

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BEFORE HE WROTE AI 2027, HE PREDICTED THE WORLD IN 2026. HOW DID HE DO?

Daniel Kokotajlo, the founder of the AI Futures Project, wrote an essay called 'What 2026 Looks Like' in August 2021, before the launch of ChatGPT. His predictions turned out to be pretty accurate. This post features an interview with Kokotajlo where he discusses what he got right, what he got wrong, and how we should think about the pace of AI over the next few years. Kokotajlo recently released a report that predicts the next few years of AI development, which culminates in the rise of superhuman agents capable of wresting control from humanity.

asteriskmag.substack.com · 22 min

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FIVE HYPERSCALERS NOW OWN OVER TWO-THIRDS OF GLOBAL AI COMPUTE

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Oracle now control two-thirds of the world's compute. Many AI labs depend almost entirely on these hyperscales for access to compute.

epochai.substack.com · 1 min

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MULTI-AGENT KERNEL OPTIMIZATION

Cursor detailed a multi-agent system that optimized 235 CUDA kernels for NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, achieving a 38% average speedup, with some cases exceeding 2× improvements.

cursor.com · 5 min

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NOW IN RESEARCH PREVIEW: ROUTINES IN CLAUDE CODE

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links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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GEMINI ROBOTICS ER 1.6: ENHANCED EMBODIED REASONING

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 upgrades robots' embodied reasoning, improving spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding for better autonomy. It enhances visual and spatial understanding, task planning, success detection, and introduces instrument reading capabilities. Available now via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, the model supports integration with tools like Google Search and VLAs.

deepmind.google · 2 min