19 May 2026
Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs
Ahead of Meta’s latest round of mass layoffs tomorrow , some employees are deserting offices, abandoning their work, and loading up on perks they might soon lose, several people at the company tell WIRED.
19 May 2026
RADAR Raises $170M, Hits $1B Valuation in AI Retail Push
RADAR has raised a massive $170 million Series B funding round. The fresh cash injection firmly drives the startup, based in New York City, into the exalted realm of unicorn companies, with the startup having a post-money valuation of $1 billion. The round was co-led by Gideon Strategic Partners and Nimble Partners with additional follow-on investor support from Align Ventures. The financing…
19 May 2026
‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry warns of similarities between AI boom and dot-com bubble
Famed investor Michael Burry is warning that the current rush to pour billions of dollars into artificial intelligence bears eerie similarities to the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s.
19 May 2026
Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery
For centuries, the scientific method has been the greatest engine of human progress. At Google, our mission is deeply rooted in building tools to accelerate it. We believe that a new era of discovery won’t come from narrow, specialized models, but general agents that empower researchers across every scientific field. That’s why we are introducing Gemini for Science, a collection of science tools…
19 May 2026
Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research
Introducing a collaborative AI partner for researchers to develop new hypotheses in life sciences and beyond. Every great scientific breakthrough begins with a single, transformative idea. The spark of discovery relies on a researcher's ability to connect disparate facts and formulate the right hypothesis to test. But in an era of information overload and increasingly complex challenges, the…
19 May 2026
Google debuts new Omni world model at Google I/O with advanced AI video capabilities
Google just unveiled a brand new AI world model at Google I/O 2026 called Gemini Omni. While Google calls Gemini Omni a "new model that can create anything from any output," its showcase focused on the AI model's video-generation capabilities. The first release within the Omni AI model family is called Gemini Omni Flash.
19 May 2026
Google wants to compete with Anthropic’s Mythos
Google is making a big push into cybersecurity. At I/O, the company announced that it was inviting select groups of experts to test the API for CodeMender, an “AI agent for code security” it debuted last October.
19 May 2026
Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent
Gemini Spark is Google’s take on a steroided-out assistant agent that knows everything about you, announced as part of the company’s updates to its Gemini chatbot app at this year’s I/O developer conference.
19 May 2026
Gemini app rolling out 'Neural Expressive' redesign, 3.5 Flash, 24/7 Spark agent, & Daily Brief
At I/O 2026, Google announced major updates to Gemini across the underlying model and new app features. The Gemini app now has over 900 million monthly active users.
