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[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

People replace their phones every ~4 yrs. This means there are hundreds of millions of old phones discarded each year that are still perfectly usable as computing devices. @Google in collabration with @UCSD is exploring how to turn these old phones into cloud-computing “phone clusters”. Putting phones back in service in this way can directly reduce the environmental footprint of computing by avoiding the need for further raw material extraction, and taking advantage of the embodied carbon already incurred from manufacturing these devices, and modern phones actually are already quite powerful computers. Read more in the blog below ⬇️

[royans @royans]

@pitdesi @pitdesi - As the message says, this could be a false alarm as well. I assume you have reviewed the following link it points to, which has details on how to protect your account: https://t.co/VJoghHc8mc

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Gemini 3.5 Flash is on the Pareto frontier of cost per intelligence on Vending Bench (a measure of a models ability to run a simulated store)!

[Chandu Thota @ChanduThota]

Days are long. Time is short. T-18.

As we count down to IO, here is a fun way for you to shape this year's IO! :)

1. Go to @GoogleAIStudio or @GeminiApp and vibe code your most creative idea that features a large number between 1 and 10 (or all of them)!

2. This could be anything you imagine...A game? Fluid simulation? Playable synthesizer? As long as there's a big number in the middle, it's valid.

3. Submit the form below by May 6th. Make sure to add one of your social handles so we know how to credit you, and then tune into the livestream from 9:55AM PDT on May 19th to see if you were featured! https://t.co/QVRyynz1X1

[royans @royans]

Excited to see Workspace MCP reaching preview !!
https://t.co/4lfVlDW5IO

[royans @royans]

I'm amazed with the quality of responses in #Gemma4. I've actively switched to it for some of my personal projects and its been shockingly great at handling large context and search grounding.

[Chandu Thota @ChanduThota]

Privileged to be here, working on the most enduring products of our lifetime. Proud of our teams for staying focused on the user and bringing the benefits of AI to humanity through products that make a real impact.

T-20 to IO! 🚀

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

New in Gemini: Generate files and export them

Tell Gemini what you want to create and the format, and it now does the work for you.

Now supporting:
📄 Google Docs, Word (.docx) & PDFs
📊 Google Sheets, Excel (.xlsx) & CSV
🖥️ Google Slides
🛠️ Markdown, LaTeX, TXT, RTF

Available now on all surfaces globally!

[royans @royans]

Fascinating post by citizenlab which goes into the details of how complex this level of surveillance was
https://t.co/WggDAEHwlj

[royans @royans]

Fantastic. I've been playing with Gemini TTS for a few weeks and can't wait to try out 3.1 ! "scene direction" had been a challenge before and looks like that is specifically being addressed here.

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS 🗣️, our latest text to speech model with scene direction, speaker level specificity, audio tags, more natural + expressive voices, and support for 70 different languages.

Available via our new audio playground in AI Studio and in the Gemini API!

[royans @royans]

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome @google https://t.co/sT8Q7OYXHD

[Maziyar PANAHI @MaziyarPanahi]

Gemma 4 analyzes the video. Generates key questions. Calls Falcon Perception.

"Find all the people." 156 found.
"Detect only white cars." 8 found.

A 26B model is running agentic multi-QA vision orchestration.

The models are running locally on a MacBook with MLX. No API.

[royans @royans]

I just realized that jedi mind tricks are just glorified prompt injection attacks.

[royans @royans]

I recommended this video to my kids - Its a fascinating discussion with Geoffrey Hinton on evolution of AI.

https://t.co/vTDNnLILY4

[royans @royans]

This is a command trace from a honeypot - what system is it trying to discover ?

[royans @royans]

@spillai @GoogleAI Sudeep let me reach out to you directly and see how to unblock.

[royans @royans]

@nair_san @sundarpichai @GoogleWorkspace @AskWorkspace @ThomasOrTK @pappucast Santosh, let me investigate. Ill directly reach out.

[royans @royans]

@garrytan @garrytan I'm in touch with your team directly over phone and are figuring out next steps.

[royans @royans]

@ATTHelp I tried, @ATTHelp asked me to call support again which I already did as I explained here.

[royans @royans]

@att found out that I need SMS pin to authenticate to my account to disable International pass from india. Support tells SMS doesn't work outside US. No way to login to my account. How do international ATT travellers use your service if its so hard for customers to login ?