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As you know, deploying agents at enterprise scale is one of the key areas of my consulting work. Microsoft and Google are making it a lot easier. Continue Reading →

Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon collectively committed approximately $700 billion to AI infrastructure spending this year, a 77% increase over 2025. All four reported earnings this week. Every single one beat expectations. The stock market yawned. Continue Reading →

GM is rolling out Google Gemini to roughly 4 million U.S. vehicles already on the road, replacing Google Assistant in model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC models with Google built-in. The update arrives over the air over several months, U.S. English only at launch, with other markets and languages to follow. GM calls it one of the largest Gemini deployments in the auto industry. Continue Reading →

Google just launched Skills in Chrome, which converts your AI prompts into reusable one-click tools. Instead of retyping "make this recipe vegan" across multiple food sites, you save it as a Skill and run it instantly on any page. You can also share these custom workflows or grab pre-built ones from Google's Skills library. Continue Reading →

Google quietly launched "AI Edge Eloquent," an offline-first dictation app for iOS that cleans up your speech and removes filler words. The app uses local Gemini models to transform rambling speech into polished text, with options for "Key points," "Formal," "Short," and "Long" formatting. It can import keywords from Gmail and work completely offline once the models download. Continue Reading →

Google just opened Google Vids to anyone with a Google account. The AI-powered video creation tool now lets free users generate up to 10 high-quality video clips each month using Veo 3.1. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get custom music generation via Lyria 3, as well as customizable AI avatars and increased limits: Pro subscribers get 50 videos per month, while AI Ultra subscribers get up to 1,000 video generations per month. Continue Reading →

Google just announced Project Spend Caps, which let you set monthly dollar limits on Gemini API spending per project in AI Studio. The company also overhauled its Usage Tiers system with lower qualification thresholds and automatic upgrades. Continue Reading →

Google yesterday launched Nano Banana 2, the consumer brand for Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. The upgrade includes sub-second 4K image synthesis across multiple aspect ratios, character consistency for up to five characters, fidelity for up to 14 objects in a single workflow, and precise text rendering accurate enough for marketing mockups and greeting cards. Continue Reading →

Stanford and Yale researchers extracted 95.8% of a copyrighted novel, word for word, from Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Gemini 2.5 Pro gave up 76.8% of Harry Potter without even requiring a jailbreak. Grok 3 handed over 70.3%. GPT-4.1 was the most resistant at 4.0%, but it still coughed up text after enough attempts. Thirteen books were tested. The words came out. Continue Reading →

Google Labs just launched Pomelli Photoshoot, a free tool that turns any product photo into a professional studio or lifestyle shot. Pick a product image, choose a template, generate, and refine. The tool applies your brand's visual identity (what Google calls "Business DNA") to keep everything on-brand across campaigns. The target audience is small and medium-sized businesses that cannot afford professional product photography. I tested it. It works as described. Continue Reading →