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[anurudda @anurudda]

Time is shifting!

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!

Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.

(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)

[Claude @claudeai]

New in Claude Code: Remote Control.

Kick off a task in your terminal and pick it up from your phone while you take a walk or join a meeting.

Claude keeps running on your machine, and you can control the session from the Claude app or https://t.co/er6Blrr63e

[anurudda @anurudda]

@Google Why not open up for more parts of the world ?

[anurudda @anurudda]

@Ru173418052 @anuradisanayake Remeber this guy? He has a degree in economics! damn he too can't speak in English at UN general assembly! What a pity! Some morons thinks it's the language that matters. It's the ideas and concepts that matter.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Best places to travel in October, 2025.

1. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
2. 🇹🇷 Turkey
3. 🇺🇸 New Mexico
4. 🇪🇸 Valencia
5. 🇺🇸 New York City
6. 🇵🇭 Philippines
7. 🇧🇹 Bhutan
8. 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
9. 🇷🇴 Timisoara, Romania
10. 🇺🇸 San Francisco
11. 🇳🇦 Namibia

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[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Best places to travel in October, 2025.

1. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
2. 🇹🇷 Turkey
3. 🇺🇸 New Mexico
4. 🇪🇸 Valencia
5. 🇺🇸 New York City
6. 🇵🇭 Philippines
7. 🇧🇹 Bhutan
8. 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
9. 🇷🇴 Timisoara, Romania
10. 🇺🇸 San Francisco
11. 🇳🇦 Namibia

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[anurudda @anurudda]

super!

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Now you can automate many kinds of browser activity using the new Chrome DevTools MCP. In the other retweets of the base post, many people are already thinking of lots of great use cases for this functionality!

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

An advanced version of Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has achieved gold-medal level performance at the ICPC 2025 - one of the world’s most prestigious programming contests. 🏅

Building on the model's success in math at the IMO, this marks another historic milestone for advanced AI. 🧵

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Very excited to see our Gemini models getting better and better at coding! An advanced version of Gemini 2.5 Deep Think at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals achieved gold-medal level performance! 🎉

https://t.co/yCQKOagnkm

[anurudda @anurudda]

@MKSL2024 Cry like a baby! cry more!

[Tim Althoff @timalthoff]

I’m excited to share our new @Nature paper 📝, which provides strong evidence that the walkability of our built environment matters a great deal to our physical activity and health.

Details in thread.🧵

https://t.co/omO3YcHrvG

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Every month, people use Google to translate around 1 trillion words. Today, we’re introducing a new AI-powered live translation experience in the Google Translate app, plus a new beta feature to help you practice new languages. Rolling out now on iOS + Android.

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

AI efficiency is important. Today, Google is sharing a technical paper detailing our comprehensive methodology for measuring the environmental impact of Gemini inference. We estimate that the median Gemini Apps text prompt uses 0.24 watt-hours of energy (equivalent to watching an average TV for ~nine seconds), and consumes 0.26 milliliters of water (about five drops) — figures that are substantially lower than many public estimates.

At the same time, our AI systems are becoming more efficient through research innovations and software and hardware efficiency improvements. From May 2024 to May 2025, the energy footprint of the median Gemini Apps text prompt dropped by 33x, and the total carbon footprint dropped by 44x, through a combination of model efficiency improvements, machine utilization improvements and additional clean energy procurement, all while delivering higher quality responses.

See the blog or technical paper for more about our methodology and ongoing efforts.

Blog:
https://t.co/CoMm5gV9SR

Link to detailed paper: https://t.co/UBi9rd6gEC

[anurudda @anurudda]

@thefox When does it come to Sri Lanka?

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

See mathematician Michel van Garrel talking about how our latest Gemini Deep Think model was able to prove a conjecture using a very different approach than he was considering.

[anurudda @anurudda]

බලු වැඩේ ඉතින්....අපිලට කෙල වෙනෝ

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’re rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max in late August. We estimate they’ll apply to less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage.

[anurudda @anurudda]

Cool. Will need to give a try..

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

Starting today, Pro and Ultra users can schedule actions in the Gemini app.

Just prompt something once, make it a scheduled action, and Gemini will take care of the task as often as you asked it to.

Try things like:
🎸 "Find me local music events every Friday."
🗓️ "Send me a daily summary of my calendar, to-do's and important unread emails at 8AM."

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

Starting today, Pro and Ultra users can schedule actions in the Gemini app.

Just prompt something once, make it a scheduled action, and Gemini will take care of the task as often as you asked it to.

Try things like:
🎸 "Find me local music events every Friday."
🗓️ "Send me a daily summary of my calendar, to-do's and important unread emails at 8AM."

[anurudda @anurudda]

Well it's a start.. even though not a good one..

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic Research: Project Vend.

We had Claude run a small shop in our office lunchroom. Here’s how it went.