Follow the Yellow Brick Code

Greetings from Las Vegas. Google ended its Leaders Circle with a spectacular event at the Sphere—we were treated to a preview of a "making of" video for the upcoming release of The Wizard of Oz, reimagined by Sphere Studios in partnership with Google Cloud, Google DeepMind, Magnopus, and Warner Bros. It was truly awesome. Continue Reading →

NotebookLM’s New “Discover Sources” is Making Me Smile

Google launched "Discover Sources," a new feature that lets NotebookLM search the web directly within your notebooks—and I'm already addicted. This feature helps you find relevant web content by simply describing your topic, after which NotebookLM searches and summarizes the most relevant sources, which you can add to your notebook with one click. Continue Reading →

Google’s Gemini 2.5: AI That Thinks Before It Speaks

Google unveiled Gemini 2.5 yesterday, marking their most significant advancement in AI reasoning models to date. The new family of AI models pauses to "think" before answering questions – a capability that puts Google in feature parity with OpenAI's "o" series, Deepseek's R series, Anthropic, xAI, and other reasoning models. Continue Reading →

Google and OpenAI Want Your Copyrighted Work. Should You Care?

Last week, Google and OpenAI asked the White House for permission to train AI on copyrighted content, arguing that restrictive laws will cripple U.S. innovation while China advances unchecked. Their case: AI doesn’t copy; it learns patterns and creates something new. That’s fair use, they claim—the same principle that powers search engines and chatbots. Continue Reading →

AI Has Changed Online Shopping Forever—Here’s the Data

It was the best of search, it was the worst of search. It was the age of instant answers, it was the age of disappearing links. It was the epoch of personalization, it was the epoch of lost discovery. It was the season of AI-driven clarity, it was the season of algorithmic opacity. It was the spring of conversational commerce, it was the winter of ten blue links. Continue Reading →

Humanoid Robots: The Hottest Consumer Electronics Product of the Decade—We Just Don’t Know It Yet

The race to build humanoid robots is accelerating, and while most consumers aren't paying attention yet, they soon will be. AI-powered robotics will reshape labor markets, home assistance, and personal productivity in ways that seem like science fiction today. The combination of increasingly powerful AI models, advanced dexterity, and multi-modal learning is bringing robots out of the factory and into everyday life. Some of the world’s most talented engineers are working on this problem, and the breakthroughs are coming fast. Continue Reading →

Google’s Innovator’s Dilemma

Google is in the middle of its own Innovator’s Dilemma: disrupting its $260 billion-a-year search business before someone else does. The question isn’t who will build the AI version of Google Search – the answer is obvious: Google – so our friends in Mountain View have a couple of things they're testing. Continue Reading →

Gemini Advanced Remembers

It’s Valentine’s Day—did you forget the chocolates? Fear not, because if you’re a Google Gemini Advanced user, forgetting is yesterday's problem. The AI platform will now remember every discussion you've ever had and summarize them for you. The update, initially available to English-speaking subscribers of the Google One AI Premium Plan, hopes to streamline interactions by removing the need to revisit old conversations. Continue Reading →