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01GENERAL

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02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

EVERYTHING GOOGLE ANNOUNCED AT I/O 2026: GEMINI, SEARCH, ANDROID XR, & MORE

Google announced tons of new Gemini-powered features across its biggest products and services at I/O 2026. This page compiles all of the consumer-facing and most notable developer announcements. Gemini 3.5 Flash, which surpasses 3.1 Pro in coding, agent, and multimodal benchmarks, is rolling out today in the Gemini app, Search, Antigravity 2.0, and Gemini API. Gemini 3.5 Pro, which is currently in testing, will be available next month.

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SPACEX IS PLANNING TO BUY STARTUP CURSOR 30 DAYS AFTER IPO

SpaceX is expected to file for its IPO as soon as today and list its shares on June 12. It plans to acquire Cursor in July. If the deal doesn't go through, SpaceX will pay Cursor a $10 billion breakup fee in cash. The deal will likely still require regulatory review.

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03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

TESLA'S NEWEST ELECTRIC VEHICLE COULD JOLT THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY

Early reviews of the Tesla Semi suggest it could be a much-needed hit for the company. It is much less expensive than competing heavy-duty electric trucks and can travel farther. Cost and range are two of the main reasons that many logistics and delivery firms have been reluctant to buy electric trucks. Trucking firms in California have asked the state government for subsidies to help them buy more than 1,200 Tesla trucks, more applications than for all other electric trucks since the state's incentive program began in 2019.

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TWO AI-BASED SCIENCE ASSISTANTS SUCCEED WITH DRUG-RETARGETING TASKS

Nature recently released two papers that describe AI systems intended to help scientists develop and test hypotheses. Google's Co-Scientist is designed to keep scientists in the loop, so researchers have to regularly apply their judgment to direct the system. FutureHouse's system can evaluate biological data from specific classes of experiments. Both models are designed to process massive amounts of information to create largely straightforward hypotheses, like whether a drug will work for a specific condition.

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04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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ANTIGRAVITY 2.0

Google Antigravity is a dedicated platform for working with agents. It allows users to orchestrate multiple autonomous agents working in parallel across independent projects. Antigravity features an abstracted UI, dynamic subagents, scheduled tasks, artifacts, extended customization, live voice transcription, and more. It is available on macOS for both Apple Silicon and Intel.

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GEMINI 3.5 FLASH: MORE EXPENSIVE, BUT GOOGLE PLANS TO USE IT FOR EVERYTHING

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O, skipping the preview and going straight to general availability. It mostly has the same set of platform features as the previous Gemini 3.x series, but without computer use. The model's knowledge cut-off is January 2025, and it supports 1,048,576 input tokens and 65,536 maximum output tokens. Gemini 3.5 Flash is accompanied by a notable price bump.

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05MISCELLANEOUS

ANDREJ KARPATHY, TESLA ALUM AND OPENAI CO-FOUNDER, JOINS ANTHROPIC

OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla executive Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic's pretraining team, which oversees the data training process for the company's AI models. He will lead a new group focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research. Karpathy previously led a team at Tesla that oversaw the functionality of the company's Autopilot advanced driver assistance system, and he was also a founding research scientist at OpenAI until 2017.

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POLYMARKET LAUNCHES PRIVATE COMPANY TRADING SO INVESTORS CAN SPECULATE ON ANTHROPIC, OPENAI

Polymarket is launching prediction markets tied to private company milestones. This will allow traders to bet on valuations, IPO timing, and secondary-market activity for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. The system will use the Nasdaq Private Market as the exclusive resolution data provider. Traders can take a position on whether specific private-market events happen, though without equity ownership, shares, or voting rights. Individuals will be able to engage with private-market value creation earlier.

cnbc.com3 min read