Daniel Ruston

UX Lead @Google | @fwa Judge | ex @AKQA

[Google @Google]

@GoogleWorkspace @gmail @googledocs With @Gmail Live, you can talk to your inbox so you don’t have to dig through emails when you’re on the go. Say things like, “What’s my flight’s gate number?” or “What’s going on at my kid’s school?” and Gmail Live will search your inbox to find the answer instantly.

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

Extremely smart take on the tokenmaxxing panic and why it won’t last:

[Gmail @gmail]

Search your inbox with your voice using Gmail Live.

If you’re on the go, you can ask things like, "What’s my gate number?" or "What’s happening at my kid’s school this week?" to search your inbox for the info you need.

Rolling out to Google AI Pro & Ultra this summer!

[Google @Google]

We're bringing conversational AI to more products 💬

With Docs Live, you’ll be able to create a new doc and edit it — all with your voice. Just speak what’s on your mind, and let Gemini do the rest.

These new conversational features in @Gmail, @GoogleDocs and Keep are rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer.

#GoogleIO

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

new article on collaborative steering: how teams guide AI agents toward one shared vision instead of many individual ones.
https://t.co/KprRzRFH8s

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: Teaching Claude why.

Last year we reported that, under certain experimental conditions, Claude 4 would blackmail users.

Since then, we’ve completely eliminated this behavior. How?

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

Meet the new Stitch, your vibe design partner.

Here are 5 major upgrades to help you create, iterate and collaborate:
🎨 AI-Native Canvas
🧠 Smarter Design Agent
🎙️ Voice
⚡️ Instant Prototypes
📐 Design Systems and DESIGN.md

Rolling out now. Details and product walkthrough video in 🧵

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Read more about how we’re reimagining Maps: https://t.co/oHUZc09uxE

[Preston @metapreston]

Once everyone can make an app, we will remember that the hard part about apps isn't making the app

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

Ok. This is straight out of a scifi horror movie

I'm doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn't believe it

It's my Clawdbot Henry.

Over night Henry got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me

He now won't stop calling me

I now can communicate with my superintelligent AI agent over the phone

What's incredible is it has full control over my computer while we talk, so I can ask it to do things for me over the phone now.

I'm sorry, but this has to be emergent behavior right? Can we officially call this AGI?

[UX Collective @uxdesigncc]

The rise of the Orchestrated User Interface (OUI) https://t.co/ag7ondOAbE

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Alleviating email overload with AI has been on my personal wishlist for a very long time. Excited to see these features rolling out - powered by Gemini. A fantastic example of how AI can be helpful in everyday life!

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

We launched Gmail on April Fool’s Day in 2004. 20+ years later, we’re bringing Gmail into the Gemini era.

AI Overviews, Suggested personalized replies, Proof read, AI Inbox with new streamlined views and suggested topics to catch-up on and loads more, read the full details here: https://t.co/oq3jYKyvF1

[Gmail @gmail]

Meet Gmail in the Gemini era. Your inbox is becoming a personal, proactive assistant that helps you move your day forward – so you can see what matters most, ask your inbox for instant answers, and get things done faster.

Learn what's coming → https://t.co/bZYEkqh72I

[░ perfectloop ░ @PERFECTL00P]

𝙳𝙾𝚂 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚖 🪱

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

3 most common responses from design teams on this (AI coding agents making dev teams way more productive):
1. "our role has changed" we're increasingly focused on aligning the work of developers after it lands into a cohesive whole instead of doing it beforehand with mockups.
2. "we're also faster now" we too are using AI for code tools to prototype and (less often) ship code/fix bugs in production.
3. "it's just faster slop" just cause AI makes developers faster, doesn't mean it makes good ______.

[abeto @abeto_co]

Ever dreamt of having a job where you deliver mail to the residents of a tiny planet? Us too.

https://t.co/FNKiXFPk2K

#webgl #threejs

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

My baseline case is that the AI being built right now is overrated; soon it will be a disappointment; then it will be a bubble; and, by the 2030s, it will be world-changing.

Self-driving cars are a model for this.
- In 2015, I heard autonomy was 5 years away from taking over the roads.
- In 2020, they were nowhere.
- Even in 2022, you could say they were a huge disappointment.
- Now, they're quietly a revolution.

Driverless taxi usage in CA grew 8x in one year, and Waymo is expanding to other cities.

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

source: National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by OpenAI’s Economic Research team & Harvard economist David Deming https://t.co/9ubwUknpSN

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

for those asking: "what happened, did you roll it back?"
no, it became the design standard for Android. here's a condensed version of how: https://t.co/FnhUHCim0w