google adds gemini dictation to gboard
google launches rambler, a gemini-powered dictation feature in gboard, challenging ai dictation startups on android.
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google android show: gemini laptops, vibe-coded widgets, and more
google announced googlebook laptops with gemini, vibe-coded widgets, and ai features across android at its virtual event.
daily brief: 2026-05-12
google gives android agentic ai, anthropic flags unauthorized share sales, and a polars vs pandas deep dive shows clear speed wins.
google adds agentic ai and vibe-coded widgets to android
google announced new gemini intelligence features for android, including cross-app task completion, web browsing, form filling, and natural language widget creation.
anthropic warns on unauthorized share sales
anthropic alerts investors that several secondary platforms are not authorized to sell its shares, amid rising demand for ai company equity.
executorch labs for arm edge ai
arm releases hands-on jupyter labs to deploy pytorch models on edge cpus and npus using executorch.
polars vs pandas: real-world performance deep dive
a comparison of polars and pandas on three data tasks shows polars is faster and uses less memory due to lazy evaluation and parallelism.
altman says musk wanted openai to go to his kids
sam altman testified that elon musk once suggested openai could pass to his children, raising safety concerns during the nonprofit's early for-profit debates.
capability elicitation vs creation in post-training
a free-energy perspective distinguishes whether post-training reweights existing model behaviors or creates new ones.
robinhood preps second retail venture fund amid ai rally
robinhood files for rvii, a new fund letting anyone invest in growth and early-stage startups, after its first ai-heavy fund doubled in price.
dessn raises $6m for design tool that runs on live code
dessn, a new design startup, raised $6 million to let product teams iterate directly on their production codebases without setup costs.
using llm in the shebang line of a script
simon willison explores patterns for running his llm cli tool directly from a shebang line, enabling scripts that generate content or use tools via natural language prompts.
ai voice startup vapi valued at $500m after ring deal
vapi reached a $500 million valuation after amazon ring chose its ai voice platform over 40 rivals, routing all inbound calls through vapi.
active multi-predictor inference cuts label costs
a new method routes each case to a cost-appropriate set of predictors and samples labels based on uncertainty, reducing variance under a fixed budget.
10 github repos to learn fastapi
a curated list of ten github repositories that help developers learn fastapi through templates, examples, auth tools, microservices, and ml projects.
ai coding agents must cut maintenance costs
james shore warns that ai coding tools must reduce maintenance costs proportionally to their speed gains, or they risk multiplying long-term work.
where reliability lives in vision-language models
a mechanistic study finds attention sharpness is a near-zero predictor of correctness in vision-language models, while hidden state geometry and self-consistency offer stronger reliability signals.
shopify's public slack agent teaches coding by example
shopify's internal coding agent river operates in public slack channels, letting employees learn from each other's work through visible conversations.