Kristen Maxwell

Fail fast, grow often. UX Model training for Google Gemini. Views are my own.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

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[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

We are launching two powerful updates to Deep Research in the Gemini API, now with better quality, MCP support, and native chart/infographics generation.

Use Deep Research when you want speed and efficiency, and use Max when you want the highest quality context gathering & synthesis using extended test-time compute — achieving 93.3% on DeepSearchQA and 54.6% on HLE.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

No greater metaphor for this entire week than Pete Hegseth quoting a fake Bible verse from the movie Pulp Fiction to Pentagon staff.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: The White House has blocked intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement about terror threats to the US homeland linked to the Iran war.

Read that again.

They started an illegal war. Iran struck Azerbaijan, the Gulf states, Tel Aviv, and Dubai. Sleeper cells were activated. And now the White House is preventing intelligence agencies from telling American law enforcement about threats coming home.

The domestic response force deploys in April.
357 members of Congress voted to hide their own sexual misconduct records.

The Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk for refusing to build surveillance tools.

And now they’re blocking terror warnings to local police.

They are not protecting you from the war they started.

They are controlling what you’re allowed to know about it.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Still super underrated what the incredible @NotebookLM can do. It's magical - one of my favourite AI tools.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

BREAKING: It seems we have arrived at the We Told You So part of the program

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Former ICE Employee: I swore an oath to protect the nation when I signed up. I followed it when I resigned a little over a week ago. I am duty bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken. I received secretive orders to teach cadets to violate the Constitution

[Jay d cryptonite @jonatex4u]

@CNN How many arrests so far on the Epstein case? Zero.

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[Pic-poc @Kaliakra88]

@CNN https://t.co/kMa3n55CYK

[ENOCH @tem_salitoul]

@CNN @cnn Heads rolling' in corporate America? More like gentle exits to private islands. Fire them, sure—but freeze assets, prosecute enablers, track it live on a public dashboard. Epstein's web was bipartisan elite protection racket. Time to burn it down. #LockThemUp #EpsteinFiles

[Nina Justice @Techremotehub_1]

@CNN Oh sure, because nothing screams "reckoning" like a bunch of billionaires "resigning" to their private islands with zero arrests. Can't wait for the sequel: "This Is Barely Starting." 🙄

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[Best Practices @Readandquestion]

@CNN Not enough is happening. People shouldn’t be resigning. They should be going to jail.

[xWarSpectators @xWarSpectators]

If Corporate America's "reckoning" is really gathering steam with these so-called resignations, why haven't we seen a single high-profile arrest or indictment yet—could it be that the same elite networks protecting Epstein for years are now just sacrificing a few pawns to distract from the real power players still pulling strings behind closed doors?

[Kristen Maxwell @kmax2go]

This is just funny to me 😂

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Female dogs can tell when a person doesn’t know what they’re doing.

Dogs have lived alongside humans for tens of thousands of years, and research shows they pay close attention to how we behave not just how we sound or look.

In controlled experiments, researchers tested whether dogs judge human competence just by watching. The setup was simple: two people tried to open a container. One succeeded. One failed.

Later, both people offered the dogs treats.

Most dogs chose to approach the person who had succeeded. The effect was stronger in female dogs, though scientists are not yet sure why.

This ability is called third-party social assessment, judging someone based on how they treat others or perform tasks. It’s also seen in highly social animals like chimpanzees, dolphins, and ravens.

The dogs were not responding to voice, emotion, or body language. They were responding to performance alone. They watched, remembered, and made a decision.

This skill may come from evolution. Early dogs that could recognize reliable, capable humans would have had a better chance of survival. Over time, that ability may have become part of how dogs relate to us today.

It shows that dogs don’t just bond emotionally, they also observe, compare, and evaluate.

Source:
“Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans.”
Behavioral Processes, 2022.

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

Today, we’re releasing a significant upgrade to our specialized reasoning mode, Gemini 3 Deep Think.

Deep Think is built to drive practical applications, enabling researchers to interpret complex data and engineers to model physical systems through code.

With the updated Deep Think, you can turn a sketch into a 3D-printable reality. Deep Think analyzes the drawing, builds the complex shape, and generates a file so you can create the physical object with 3D printing.

This is rolling out now to Google AI Ultra subscribers. Select the "Deep Think" option in the tools menu to get started.

Learn more here: https://t.co/MMGMgDtoK8

[Yoshua Bengio @Yoshua_Bengio]

Over 100 independent experts contributed to the Report, including Nobel laureates and Turing Award winners, along with an advisory panel with nominees from more than 30 countries and international organisations, including the EU, @OECD and @UN.

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https://t.co/4zIp54mWo8

[Debright @TOHEEBADEWALE14]

@sundarpichai The real story here isn’t the number, it’s speed. Gemini 3 scaling faster than any previous model shows how dominant a full-stack AI strategy can be when distribution, infra, and talent are aligned.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

A statement from Alex Pretti’s younger sister, Micayla Pretti:

“Alex was kind, generous, and had a way of lighting up every room he walked into. He was incredibly intelligent and deeply passionate, and he made people feel safe. But most importantly, he was my brother. I had the privilege of being his little sister for 32 years. I will never be able to hug him, laugh with him, or cry to him again because of those thugs—and that is a pain no words can fully capture.

Alex always wanted to make a difference in this world, and it’s devastating that he won’t be here to witness the impact he was making. Through his work at the VA caring for the sickest patients, and passion to advance cancer research, he touched more lives than he probably ever realized. All Alex ever wanted was to help someone—anyone. Even in his very last moments on this earth, he was simply trying to do just that.

I want to thank everyone who has reached out to my family and me, whether you knew Alex personally or not. The messages, posts, and overwhelming positivity shared about him truly reflect his character, work ethic, and passions. My brother is, and always will be, my hero.

When does this end? How many more innocent lives must be lost before we say enough? Hearing disgusting lies spread about my brother is absolutely gut-wrenching, and my family is deeply grateful so many people have stood up and helped tell his truth. He would be very proud.”

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

The Trump administration is painting Border Czar Tom Homan as a less extreme and more professional alternative to the leadership of the recently removed Border Patrol head, Greg Bovino, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

But his record tells a much different story. https://t.co/DHOLuXktuZ

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

What's his name?