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Practical AI systems that help you scale faster.

[Descalo @bdescalo]

You are all welcome to join an online session I’m hosting next Friday.

This session will focus on the infrastructure behind AI: the data centers powering models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

I met Amir Hochman recently and was fascinated by his perspective. After hearing about his experience building mission-critical data centers for some of the world's largest hyperscalers and cloud providers, I knew I wanted to bring his knowledge and story to the community.

Friday, July 10
2:00–3:00 PM EDT

https://t.co/Yc0TJdJq86

[Descalo @bdescalo]

Google quietly released AI Edge Eloquent, an AI dictation tool that runs locally on your phone or computer.

This could be one of the first local AI model apps that millions of people will use every day without even thinking about it.

Google quietly released AI Edge Eloquent, an AI dictation tool that runs locally on your computer.

I think this could be one of the first local AI model use cases that millions of people will use every day without even thinking about it.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Our new Gemma 4 12B model hits a sweet spot between size + performance: it can run locally on a laptop, while enabling powerful multi-step reasoning and agentic workflows. Can’t wait to see what the community does with this one!

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

We just launched the ability to build native Android apps directly in Google AI Studio for free!

Since launch last week, people have created more than 250,000 Android apps. Likely >99% of these folks never built an Android app before, everyone can now build, no coding required!

[Descalo @bdescalo]

@_mohansolo Is there anyway to get more credtis ?

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

You can now ask Gemini to create Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, and more directly in your chat. No more copying, pasting, or reformatting, just prompt and download.

Available globally for all @GeminiApp users.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Very soon there are going to be more AI agents than humans making transactions.

They can’t open a bank account, but they can own a crypto wallet. Think about it.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Code Review, a new feature for Claude Code.

When a PR opens, Claude dispatches a team of agents to hunt for bugs.

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Introducing Exa Deep: putting an agent inside every search

For each query, an agent runs in a loop until it gathers all information, then returns structured output.

Evals show Deep is Pareto optimal at 4-60s latency, ideal for quick, cost-efficient research!

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Naval @naval]

New podcast on AI (full episode). Links below.

A Motorcycle for the Mind

0:00 If you want to learn, do

2:13 Vibe coding is the new product management

6:49 Training models is the new coding

10:13 Is traditional software engineering dead?

13:07 There is no demand for average

14:12 The hottest new programming language is English

18:36 AI is adapting to us faster than we are adapting to it

22:56 No entrepreneur is worried about AI taking their job

26:46 The goal is not to have a job

29:49 AIs are not alive

32:55 AI fails the only true test of intelligence

36:49 Early adopters of AI have an enormous edge

39:37 AI meets you exactly where you are

43:02 Always leverage the best intelligence

44:37 If you can't define it, you can't program it

49:37 The solution to AI anxiety is action

[Claude @claudeai]

New in Cowork: scheduled tasks.

Claude can now complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically: a morning brief, weekly spreadsheet updates, Friday team presentations.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Code Security, now in limited research preview.

It scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review, allowing teams to find and fix issues that traditional tools often miss.

Learn more: https://t.co/n4SZ9EIklG

[Jimmy Ba @jimmybajimmyba]

Last day at xAI.

xAI's mission is push humanity up the Kardashev tech tree. Grateful to have helped cofound at the start. And enormous thanks to @elonmusk for bringing us together on this incredible journey. So proud of what the xAI team has done and will continue to stay close as a friend of the team. Thank you all for the grind together. The people and camaraderie are the real treasures at this place.

We are heading to an age of 100x productivity with the right tools. Recursive self improvement loops likely go live in the next 12mo. It’s time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture. 2026 is gonna be insane and likely the busiest (and most consequential) year for the future of our species.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.

OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.

[Claude @claudeai]

We're bringing some of Claude’s most-used features to the free plan.

File creation, connectors, and skills are all now available without a subscription.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Our Q4/FY’25 results are in. Thanks to our partners & employees, it was a tremendous quarter, exceeding $400B in annual revenue for the first time. Our full AI stack is fueling our progress, and Gemini 3 adoption has been faster than any other model in our history.

We’re really well positioned and excited going into 2026. Much more to come!

[Descalo @bdescalo]

@mdancho84 https://t.co/uH8zNh7mbQ

Google has now 1,001 AI use cases

[Sam Altman @sama]

The companies that succeed in the future are going to make very heavy use of AI. People will manage teams of agents to do very complex things.

Today we are launching Frontier, a new platform to enable these companies.