Today we’re sharing an early look at our latest Gemini update for I/O! Introducing the updated Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O edition), which ranks #1 on WebDev Arena and surpasses our previous 2.5 Pro model by +147 Elo points.
BIG TECH
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Tech Companies’ Legal Accountability and Whistleblower Culture
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The absence of people who seek immolation is the primary reason why Approximately Every Tech Company That Matters hasn’t had a flagrantly illegal project plan published in the Wall Street Journal.
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Employment lawyers struggle implementing tech labor laws at major platforms
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Employment lawyers did not have 100% success in getting those laws successfully implemented, as has been *gestures vaguely* widely publicly reported about e.g. YouTube recruiting organization, etc etc.
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Tech Industry Culture Faces Legal Compliance Pressure
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That culture metastaticized to the tech industry, by the way, which led to some amount of internal pressure, as employment lawyers tried to communicate with usual suspects that no, really, there are laws in this country.
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Palantir Stock Falls Despite Strong AI Growth Numbers
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Palantir sells off despite everything being ‘on fire’ The valuation is insane for Palantir, but the growth numbers keep impressing. The only fly in the ointment is Europe, where they just don’t get it, according to CEO Alex Karp. https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/pala
ntir-sells-off-despite-everything-being-on-fire
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DOJ proposes banning Google from using first-party data
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Yep! One of the DOJ’s proposed remedies is banning Google from using first-party data from Google products — including YouTube and Chrome — to prevent it from advantaging its own ad tools.
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OpenAI Acquires Windsurf, Cursor Valued at $9 Billion
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OpenAI achète Windsurf pour 3 milliards de dollars. Cursor reçoit un nouvel investissement de 900 millions de dollars et est valorisé à 9 milliards. C'est très clair : le marché voit l'avenir dans les agents de codage / éditeurs IA. Les modèles deviennent de plus en plus
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OpenAI Converts Commercial Division to Public Benefit Corporation
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OpenAI a annoncé la transformation de sa division commerciale en une société d'intérêt public (structure d'entreprise qui concilie profit et mission sociale), tout en maintenant l'organisation à but non lucratif comme actionnaire majoritaire. Cette réorganisation répond aux
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Anthropic Launches AI Program for Scientific Research
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Anthropic launched a new "AI for Science" program Under the initiative, the company will provide up to $20,000 in free API credits (for 6 months) to researchers in "high-impact" scientific fields like drug discovery, genomics, and agriculture
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Nvidia Launches Parakeet V2, Revolutionary Open-Source ASR
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Nvidia released Parakeet V2, a new open-source automatic speech recognition AI —Transcribes an hour of audio in a second
—Top model on Open ASR, beating ElevenLabs' Scribe and OpenAI's Whisper
—6.05% Word Error Rate
—Available under CC-BY-4.0 license