Alex Vatus

Crafting the future of retail @Google | Alumni @meta & @AUCHAN_France | Paris 🇫🇷 | Wine 🍷 narrates my evenings, while digital 🤖 inspire my days

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@stalman @PaulGameboy @LeicaCameraUSA Enjoy your stay !

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@rustybrick Hey @rustybrick,

Actually, it's a residential building shot from Google's France offices. ⛱️

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@samsheffer Absolutely. This might be the first iPhone that makes me feel like AppleCare was almost unnecessary.

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Agentic commerce is moving from concept to reality and it needs open rails.

Introducing the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP): an open standard that lets AI agents connect retailers, platforms & payments across the full journey (discover → buy → support).

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AI agents will be a big part of how we shop in the not-so-distant future.

To help lay the groundwork, we partnered with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart to create the Universal Commerce Protocol, a new open standard for agents and systems to talk to each other across every step of the shopping journey.

And coming soon, UCP will power native checkout so you can buy directly on AI Mode and the @Geminiapp.

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Google’s Michel Devoret 🇫🇷 and Alumnus John Martinis claim Nobel Prize in Physics

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Congratulations to Michel Devoret, Google Quantum AI’s Chief Scientist of Quantum Hardware, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics today. Google now has five Nobel laureates among our ranks, including three prizes in the past two years. https://t.co/FprszfslSZ

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@luusssso Since 2022, Noir has been weaving a caffeinated web across Paris - nearly 20 coffee shops - each designed by up and coming interior architects. Next stop: London.

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@luusssso @byzanti47504715 This glass & bronze work by Max Ingrand marks the entrance to a building erected in the 60s, creating a striking contrast with the historic structures of the Palais Cambon, home to France’s Cour des comptes, the institution responsible for auditing public finances. Hope it helps

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@DKomplex @vtchakarova +1

If I’m correct, according to @nntaleb himself, a true Black Swan event must be completely unexpected, with no plausible anticipation. The tensions in the Balkans were well-known, making WWI’s trigger more of a “Grey Swan”, impactful, but not wholly unforeseen.

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@DynamicWebPaige @stephr_wong @rseroter @OfficialLoganK Congrats @DynamicWebPaige !

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This technique is based on test-time scaling—a way to boost reasoning without retraining AI.

Here is the link to the research:
📄 https://t.co/WEC1yTGfzk

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🧠 Unlock better reasoning in @GeminiApp with one simple trick!

Most AI models rush their answers.

But a small prompt tweak can force deeper thinking and improve accuracy.

Here’s how 👇

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🔍 Example in action:

❌ You ask: “What’s 37 × 49?”
🤖 AI rushes & risks errors.

✅ Instead, try: “Break it down step by step before answering.”

🤖 AI slows down, calculates properly, and avoids mistakes.

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⚡️ New advanced #nuclear energy to support #AI technologies

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@MattBrittin Merci beaucoup @MattBrittin ! Excited to see where your next steps lead, and grateful for the impact you’ve had on all of us.

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@m_e_sander Congrats and welcome @m_e_sander !

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@JulienParrou @Editions_Feret Bravo @JulienParrou !