What a wild couple days at Microsoft Build and Google I/O. In between the announcements, I had the incredible opportunity to sit down for interviews with @satyanadella and @demishassabis
. Grateful for how far The Rundown has come – can’t wait to share these conversations!
BIG TECH
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Rowan Cheung Interviews Nadella and Hassabis at Tech Conferences
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Google Introduces Gemini Diffusion: Faster Non-Sequential Text Generation
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Today we introduced Gemini Diffusion⚡️ (& DeepThink, Veo3, Imagen4, 2.5 updates…).
— Oriol Vinyals (@OriolVinyalsML) 20 mai 2025
It's been a dream of mine to remove the need for "left to right" text generation. It's so fast, that we had to *slow down* the video during the presentation.https://t.co/YW73ZPqJ5a pic.twitter.com/N3BXZs9ELeToday we introduced Gemini Diffusion (& DeepThink, Veo3, Imagen4, 2.5 updates…). It's been a dream of mine to remove the need for "left to right" text generation. It's so fast, that we had to *slow down* the video during the presentation. https://
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Pentagon AI Leader Winchell Advances Defense Autonomy Portfolio
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“Winchell most recently led the artificial intelligence and autonomy portfolio for the Defense Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office. Prior to that, he was chief engineer for the Pentagon’s Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, commonly known as Project Maven.”
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Google Sheets AI Model Needs 2024-Level Improvements
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Dear @Google
, Please improve the AI model in Google Sheets. You can release an agentic browser and a Gmail robot and glasses that see through walls or whatever, but I need you to put a model in that feels like it was made in 2024 or later. Xo,
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Google Releases Stitch Beta for AI UI Design
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Google released Stitch beta! A new experiment where you can use AI to generate UI design that can also be easily copied into Figma later.
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Google Ultra AI Plan: $250/Month Video Generation Pricing
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Google's new ultra AI plan: $250 per month
12,000 credits
150 credits per 8s Veo 3 video So 80 videos
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Gemini Integrated into Google Search for Faster Responses
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One-shot questions? I’m back on Google. I’m really enjoying how Gemini now lives right inside Search. Open a tab, type a (possibly messy) prompt, hit Enter—done. It still feels faster and more convenient than waiting for a reasoning model to spool out an answer. I still reach
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Google Launches AI Ultra Plan with VIP Access to Advanced Tools
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We didn't propose the Google AI Ultra plan $249.99/month, but hopefully it will be well worth it with your VIP access to Google AI (DeepThink, Veo3, Project Mariner, etc) 🙂
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Google Flexes AI Infrastructure Muscles Against OpenAI
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I’m just catching up on all the Google I/O announcements, and I feel like it’s the first time where Google is truly flexing their infrastructure muscles. They are doing things that I’m not sure OpenAI can keep up with at this point. Not because they don’t have the talent or
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Google Releases Imagen 4 AI Image Generator
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BREAKING : Google introduced Imagen 4, an upgraded version of their AI image generation model. Imagen 4 will be available in Gemini, Whisk, Vertex AI and Workspace starting today. Impressive one