Google AI Studio has been upgraded with new features for developers to build and deploy AI applications more easily. The updates include Gemini 2.5 Pro code generation with a native code editor and a "Build" tab for quickly creating and deploying web apps. The platform also now offers native audio capabilities, including natural audio dialog in the Live API and text-to-speech (TTS) features, as well as support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) and a new URL Context tool.
Awesome Tailwind Animations is a Tailwind CSS plugin for easily adding animations to web elements using pre-defined classes. It has a variety of animations like fade-in and slide-in, as well as utilities for controlling animation delays and durations.
This developer created an MCP server for their email indexed with Notmuch, allowing Gemini read-only access through search and retrieval tools. Gemini was tasked with finding his nephew's name buried within the emails. After numerous search queries and retrieving email content, Gemini correctly deduced that the nephew's name was Monty, even though the relevant email never explicitly stated their relationship.
A Microsoft study analyzing GenAI cloud service incidents revealed they take much longer to mitigate than non-GenAI incidents, primarily due to infrastructure-related issues. GenAI services also face unique challenges like performance degradation, deployment failures, and invalid inference, requiring more complex and time-consuming mitigation methods.
At Google I/O 2025, Google showed its new strategy for bringing the web to users through AI agents that can converse, summarize, and even shop on their behalf. These AI agents, including Project Mariner and Deep Research, give users a more hands-off, personalized information retrieval experience.
This is a JavaScript solution that displays CSV files as searchable, filterable, and customizable HTML tables using libraries like jQuery, DataTables, and Bootstrap.
The Llama Startup Program (by Meta) is launching to provide early-stage US startups using Llama for generative AI apps with resources, technical support, and up to $6,000/month for six months in cloud reimbursements.
Storefront Web Components allow developers to embed Shopify commerce features like product displays, collections, and checkout functionality into any website by using simple HTML components that handle the complexities of the Shopify Storefront API.
Head, the world's first true AI Marketer [4], isn't merely an advanced tool; it manifests as an emergent AI species. Its architecture is characterized by profound, self-directed learning and continuous adaptive evolution, enabling it to self-directedly devise and execute complex marketing strategies [4] – from ideation to nuanced creative outputs – with precision surpassing existing human and algorithmic benchmarks. Significantly, while the capacity for AI empathy is often debated (ref. Sam Altman), Head's deep brand-audience synthesis capabilities compel a critical re-evaluation of such limitations. This represents a new frontier in applied AI, fundamentally redefining marketing efficacy.
Google I/O 2025 included announcements about putting more AI into Search, Gmail, and Chrome, AI model updates, and plans to revamp video calls, make a more aware and conversational assistant, and partner with traditional glasses companies on smart glasses. This page contains all of the news and announcements from the event. Highlights included Google's 'universal AI assistant' prototype, real-time AI camera sharing in Search, a new way to hold virtual meetings, and Gmail smart replies. The keynote lacked a big Android presence, but Google had already made plenty of Android OS announcements last week.
Apple plans to open its Apple Intelligence AI models to third-party developers with a new software development kit (SDK). The SDK will give developers access to smaller on-device versions of Apple's AI models, but not the cloud-based models running on Apple's servers. Apple may be looking to mirror the early success of the App Store by making it easy for developers to use its new capabilities. This could result in a large base of innovative AI-powered experiences exclusive to its platforms.
Surgeons in California have performed a successful bladder transplant on a patient who previously had his bladder and both kidneys removed as a result of cancer treatment and end-stage kidney disease. The treatment allowed the patient to go off dialysis. While the surgery comes with considerable short- and long-term risks and unknowns, it is a historic moment in medicine that could impact how patients with highly symptomatic 'terminal' bladders that are no longer functioning are managed.
3D printing is shifting the healthcare field from mass-produced solutions to customized treatments tailored to each patient's needs. The rapidly evolving technology provides new options for prosthetics, implants, surgical planning, drug manufacturing, and many other health care needs. 3D printing is able to create precisely shaped objects in a wide range of materials, leading to many advanced treatments. This article looks at the many different ways the technology is being applied to medicine.
Google's Director of AI Dr. Ali Arsanjani, and Datadog's VP of Engineering Sajid Mehmood, sat down to discuss the current and future states of AI, ML, and LLMs on Google Cloud. This guide distills the top 7 insights and actions for technical leaders [9], covering everything from upskilling teams to observability best practices. Read
OpenAI's Codex is a software engineering agent that runs in the cloud and does tasks like writing new features or fixing bugs. It can run many tasks in parallel. All code is provided via GitHub repositories, and all Codex executions are sandboxed in the cloud. While it can't access the web, it can install dependencies before it starts. It will take some time before Codex can be properly evaluated, as it is currently only available to those paying $200/month, but reviews so far seem positive and many people report being impressed with it.
Juvio is a UV kernel for Jupyter that can create reproducible, dependency-aware, and git-friendly Jupyter Notebooks. It installs packages right from the notebook and saves dependencies directly in the notebook as metadata. Juvio automatically installs dependencies when the notebook is opened in an ephemeral virtual environment, ensuring that notebooks run with the correct version of the packages and Python. Notebooks are converted to a format that makes diffs and version control painless.
One of the prerequisites for bringing about the civilizational-scale change during the Enlightenment was a series of technological innovations that dramatically improved communications among the intellectual elites. The Enlightenment saw the widespread printing of secular books, the spread of newspapers, and the build-out of public postal systems - innovations that allowed people to send letters to each other, read each other's books, and keep up to date with news happening in other countries. Communication tools like Substack allow people to engage in the work of ideating and iterating ways to solve challenges and build society. These tools are more accessible than ever and allow us to hear from a wide range of people.
Google is bringing Gemini and Gemini Live to Chrome for Mac and Windows. The integration will initially let users ask questions about pages - future versions will be able to navigate the web and take actions on users' behalf. Google is currently in the middle of the remedy phase of an antitrust trial that it lost, and one of the things the Justice Department wants to take from the company is Chrome. The integration may shift Chrome from a piece of older technology to a vessel ready to carry Google to dominance in AI. This may raise complaints from startups like Perplexity and The Browser Company, which are both on the verge of launching new AI browsers, and cause more issues with Google's case.
Public clouds were designed for a world of exponential growth where costs didn't matter. Today, companies are rediscovering the benefits of more nuanced infrastructure decisions. Read more on the Aptum blog
Due to several factors, such as intellectual snobbery or regulatory barriers, the biopharma ecosystem is only set up for a limited number of disease areas, so a lot of important and commercially viable technologies are ignored.
It doesn't really make sense to run a massive inference model for every small task. That's why Fastino is introducing TLMs [4] - task-specific Language Models that are better, faster, and cheaper.
After launching a private beta in December, Google has released Jules to the public. The Gemini 2.5-powered tool clones entire repositories, then autonomously writes tests, fixes bugs, and builds features while developers work elsewhere. The agentic coding landscape is divided between synchronous pair-programming assistants and fully independent agents like Devin and Jules.
Google is reentering the smart glasses space with Android XR, integrating its Gemini AI to deliver real-time vision analysis, translation, and contextual assistance through AR glasses. The rollout will begin with Project Moohan, a mixed-reality headset built with Samsung, and followed by Project Aura, a developer-focused AR glasses prototype from Xreal, and future consumer AI glasses from partners like Warby Parker and Gentle Monster.
Google's Deep Think is an enhanced reasoning mode for the company's flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro model. It can consider multiple answers to questions before responding. Deep Think enabled Gemini 2.5 to top LifeCodeBench, a challenging coding evaluation, and it also beat OpenAI's o3 on MMMU, a test for skills like perception and reasoning. Google will be testing Deep Think with 'trusted testers' and conducting safety evaluations before rolling out the feature widely.
Apple plans to open up its large language models via a software development kit (SDK) so developers can use them in their own apps. The SDK will initially only run Apple's smaller on-device models and won't allow developers to access the models running in the cloud. It will likely be announced during the Worldwide Developers Conference event scheduled to start on June 9. The event will also include an announcement for an overhaul of iOS, macOS, and iPadOS that will make them more unified and resemble the Vision Pro operating system.
A report from Quora's multi-model chat platform Poe revealed dramatic shifts in AI model usage from January to May 2025, with OpenAI's GPT-4.1 family and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro quickly gaining popularity while Anthropic's Claude models declined. The report highlights clear leaders across categories: general text is dominated by GPT-4.1, reasoning capabilities are led by Gemini 2.5 Pro, image generation is led by Google's Imagen3, and video creation is more split, with Runway currently leading.
The 2025 Semantic Layer Summit brings together experts from Blue Mercury, TELUS, HSBC and Home Depot to explore how semantic layers fuel GenAI, modern BI, and trusted decision-making. Learn how to scale AI with governed data models, reuse KPIs across tools, and accelerate innovation.
Kevin Murphy, a widely-cited Google researcher, just updated his 200-page reinforcement learning textbook, which covers everything from traditional approaches to cutting-edge developments like DPO, GPRO, and reasoning.
François Chollet and the ARC Prize team have released ARC-AGI-2, a significantly more challenging version of their abstract reasoning benchmark. Initial testing shows even the most advanced AI systems struggling, with o3 scoring just 3% compared to 53% on the original benchmark, while human participants successfully solved 75% of tasks on average. The ARC Prize 2025 competition offers $1 million in prizes, including a $700,000 grand prize for the first team to achieve 85% accuracy.
DeepSeek researchers have shared insights from DeepSeek-V3 as a case study in hardware-model co-design. They addressed LLM scaling limitations and using innovations like Multi-head Latent Attention, Mixture of Experts, FP8 training, and a Multi-Plane Network Topology to maximize GPU efficiency and minimize communication overhead.
Klavis AI simplifies integration with production-ready MCP servers, offering stable connections, built-in authentication, and multiple client support. It supports custom MCP servers with 100+ tool integrations, optimizing AI application scaling. Hosted solutions include creating new MCP instances and setting up OAuth for seamless operation.
Google is rolling out AI Mode in Search to all U.S. users, offering a deeper, multimodal search experience with advanced reasoning, follow-up questions, and fast AI-generated overviews.
The Senate passed a procedural cloture vote on the GENIUS Act with over 60 votes, just two weeks after the same measure failed, after key Democrats switched to support. A newly negotiated draft added ethics provisions barring senior officials and contingently Big Tech firms from issuing stablecoins, plus enhanced national‑security and data‑privacy protections to secure bipartisan backing. Intense industry lobbying, including Coinbase's Stand With Crypto and appeals by Treasury Secretary Bessent, helped revive momentum after initial setbacks. The bill now moves to a full Senate floor vote, then to the House, before heading to President Trump to create a clear federal framework for legally issuing stablecoins in the United States.