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Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches (New York Times)

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New York Times : Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches   —  Powered by a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box to answer longer queries, introducing a video-generation … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2vPe9lY

Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its "strongest agentic and coding model yet", for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode (The Keyword)

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The Keyword : Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its “strongest agentic and coding model yet”, for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode   —  Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.  —  Today, we're introducing Gemini 3.5 … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/N4AD7Vv

Sundar Pichai says Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up from 480T tokens per month a year ago and 9.7T tokens per month two years ago (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Ina Fried / Axios : Sundar Pichai says Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up from 480T tokens per month a year ago and 9.7T tokens per month two years ago   —  Google used its I/O developer conference on Tuesday to showcase how deeply it plans to embed AI across its products … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/i8XzFk9

Elon Musk loses lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI after jury rules he waited too long to sue

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman. Getty Images A federal jury found Sam Altman , Greg Brockman, and OpenAI not liable in Elon Musk's lawsuit. They ruled that the Tesla CEO waited too long to bring the case, missing the statute of limitations. Musk accused Altman of illegally turning OpenAI into a for-profit venture with Microsoft's help. A jury on Monday found Sam Altman and OpenAI not liable in a blockbuster lawsuit Elon Musk brought against them. The jurors in an Oakland, California, courtroom cleared the OpenAI CEO, its president, Greg Brockman , and OpenAI itself of Musk's allegations that they scammed him of early charitable contributions by operating OpenAI as a for-profit venture. They ruled that the Tesla CEO knew about the details he described in his lawsuit as far back as 2021, but waited too long and missed the legal deadlines to bring his claims. The jurors also found Microsoft not liable for "aiding and abetting" Altman and Brockman to violate charity laws...

Seagate shares drop 9%+, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

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CJ Haddad / CNBC : Seagate shares drop 9%+, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout   —  Shares of memory chip maker Seagate slipped more than 8% Monday, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from CEO Dave Mosley raised concerns … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/6BXGzp2

Sigma, which sells a cloud-native analytics platform that sits on top of data warehouses, raised an $80M Series E led by Princeville Capital at a $3B valuation (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)

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Cristian Dina / The Next Web : Sigma, which sells a cloud-native analytics platform that sits on top of data warehouses, raised an $80M Series E led by Princeville Capital at a $3B valuation   —  The round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, and Workday Ventures also participating. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/o3XfL1Q

Musk v. Altman: the jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman, finding that the claims were filed outside of the statute of limitations (CNBC)

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CNBC : Musk v. Altman: the jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman, finding that the claims were filed outside of the statute of limitations   —  After less than two hours of deliberations, a jury on Monday rejected Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/LNpk1lF