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Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.
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Well, hell’s bells: It’s finally happening. After years of misguided rumors and off-base expectations — over a decade’s worth, even! — Google is actually now on the brink of combining Android and ChromeOS into a single superpowered platform for laptops and mobile devices alike. The company officially announced the advent of an entirely new type of product called the Googlebook as part of its pre-Google-I/O “Android Show” event on Tuesday. According to Google, the Googlebook is “a new category of laptops” that brings together Chrome, the Google Play ecosystem of apps, and “a modern OS that’s designed for Intelligence” (a fancy way to say “there’ll be lots of Gemini AI this-and-thats”). At their core, Googlebooks appear to sport an interface that’s somewhere between Android as we know it and ChromeOS — with echoes of the 2010-era large-screen-optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb era — to create what Google seemingly now sees as the future of the laptop experience. In a lot of ways, Goog
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified in court against a lawsuit brought by co-founder Elon Musk, who alleges that the creation of OpenAI’s for-profit subsidiary amounted to misappropriating a charitable organisation built around safe AI development. Altman pushed back on that framing, arguing that OpenAI had built one of the world’s largest charitable foundations and that […]
Google used its Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 event to unveil a sweeping suite of AI-powered features under the Gemini Intelligence banner, signalling its most ambitious push yet to embed generative AI throughout the Android experience. The features will initially roll out to Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel devices this summer before reaching other Android […]
Meta is testing an AI-powered feature on Threads that allows users to invoke Meta AI directly within posts and replies — positioning the platform as a destination for information as well as conversation. The rollout is currently in beta across Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina, and Singapore. The feature works by letting public account holders mention @meta.ai […]
OpenAI and Anthropic are opening offices in Washington, hiring lobbyists and spending more than ever to win over federal lawmakers.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Ciridae, the AI transformation firm building operating systems for real economy businesses, has announced it has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Sunflower Capital, and Backcountry Ventures. Founded by CEO Jack Soslow, former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and data scientist at Meta, […]
Japanese group books net income of $11.6bn in fourth quarter, vastly ahead of analyst expectations
