Google should retire Google Search and replace it with Gemini.
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Cannes 2026: AI angst shifts from tech platforms to marketers
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On stage and off stage, angst about AI seems to be shifting. Last year’s theme at Cannes was how tech platforms might disrupt agencies with AI-generated ads. This year, marketers are now among the many feeling disrupted (and increasingly disoriented) when it comes to how their
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Google taps employee alumni network for AI startup incubator
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Google Taps Employee Alumni Network With #AI Startup Incubator
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Debate on open vs frontier model capability gap and switching difficulty
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That is probably right on where we disagree. I believe the capability delta outside of coding between open & frontier is much larger. I also am suspicious that open models will continue to stay at the frontier. I also think switching between models is harder for many tasks in
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Banning Chinese models will only boost their popularity
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Yes, and they will lose. What, are they going to ban all of China's models? That will just make them more popular:
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ByteDance’s iLLaDA 8B diffusion model rivals autoregressive LMs
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"Improved Large Language Diffusion Models" ByteDance just made bidirectional masked diffusion on-par with autoregessive LM! This paper iLLaDA trains an 8B Transformer from scratch on 12T tokens, then keeps the same denoising objective for SFT on a 25B-token instruction corpus.
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Open source harness advances depend on model intelligence from few firms
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Lots of advances coming from the open source harness movement (including Moltbook, RAG approaches back in the day, etc.) but they depend on the intelligence of the models created by a small handful of companies & the more intelligent those models, the more others can do with them
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Anthropic uses moral language to justify opaque and anti-competitive behavior
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Anthropic is a company wrapping a business model in moral language, then using that language to justify opaque model behavior, anti-competitive access rules, regulatory pressure, and a future where builders, startups, researchers, and Opensource communities stay downstream of a
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Skepticism about OSS owning high-end model hardware
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Those of you who are putting all your hope in OSS – you really think that if they are serious about all of this they’ll let you own the hardware that can run the top end models?
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Google adds Collections support to NotebookLM for grouping notebooks
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Google is working on Collections support for NotebookLM. > Users will be able to group multiple notebooks into a single collection.
> Collections will appear in a separate tab in the NotebookLM main menu. Since Notebooks now also function as "projects" in Gemini, this may