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Google Rolls Out Gemini in Chrome in 7 New Countries
Google expanded its Gemini in Chrome AI assistant to seven additional markets—Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam—bringing the feature to both desktop and iOS platforms, except for iOS in Japan. The rollout follows earlier launches in the United States, India, Canada, and New Zealand. Gemini’s Personal Intelligence integrates Gmail, Photos, Calendar, and Maps to deliver contextual responses, while the Nano Banana 2 tool lets users edit web images directly in the sidebar. The more advanced agentic browsing remains a U.S.-only, paid‑plan feature.
It’s Not Just One Thing — It’s Another Thing
A Barron’s analysis of AlphaSense’s document database reveals that the sentence pattern “not just X, it’s Y” has exploded in corporate communications, jumping from roughly 50 mentions in 2023 to more than 200 by 2025. The report cites examples from...
Sources: Cursor in Talks to Raise $2B+ at $50B Valuation as Enterprise Growth Surges
AI coding startup Cursor is close to a new financing round that could bring in at least $2 billion, valuing the company at roughly $50 billion. The round, led by returning backers Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Battery Ventures and...
‘Tokenmaxxing’ Is Making Developers Less Productive than They Think
Developers are racing to maximize AI token budgets, but higher token consumption isn’t translating into real productivity gains. Waydev’s data shows AI‑generated code acceptance rates of 80‑90% drop to 10‑30% after accounting for post‑submission revisions. Multiple analytics firms report code...
Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s Shopping Spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap
The AI insider gap is widening as OpenAI accelerates its acquisition spree, buying finance apps and even talk‑show platforms, while Anthropic unveiled a powerful new model that it demoed for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Meanwhile, chipmakers AMD, Arm and...
Anthropic CPO Leaves Figma’s Board After Reports He Will Offer a Competing Product
Anthropic chief product officer Mike Krieger resigned from Figma's board on April 14 after reports that the AI lab’s upcoming Opus 4.7 model will embed design tools that could rival Figma’s flagship product. Figma, a $10 billion publicly traded company, disclosed the...
Roblox’s AI Assistant Gets New Agentic Tools to Plan, Build, and Test Games
Roblox announced a suite of agentic features that upgrade its Roblox Assistant from a simple prompt‑response tool to a collaborative development partner. The new Planning Mode lets the assistant analyze code, ask clarifying questions, and generate editable action plans before...
Google Is Now Targeting Bad Ads over Bad Actors
Google reported blocking a record 8.3 billion ads worldwide in 2025, up from 5.1 billion in 2024. The surge was driven by its Gemini AI models, which the company says caught more than 99% of policy‑violating ads before they reached users. Despite...
Meta Raises Quest 3 and Quest 3S Prices Due to RAM Shortage
Meta announced a price increase for its Quest 3 VR headsets, citing a global surge in memory‑chip costs. Effective April 19, the Quest 3 will rise $100 to $599.99, the Quest 3S 128 GB model adds $50 to reach $349.99, and the 256 GB version...
Reid Hoffman Weighs in on the ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Debate
Reid Hoffman, co‑founder of LinkedIn, publicly backed the emerging "tokenmaxxing" metric that tracks how many AI tokens employees consume. The endorsement follows Meta's recent removal of its internal token‑usage dashboard after the AI leaderboard leak. Hoffman said token spend can...
Gitar, a Startup that Uses Agents to Secure Code, Emerges From Stealth with $9 Million
Gitar, a San Mateo AI startup founded by former Intel Labs, Google, and Uber executive Ali‑Reza Adl‑Tabatabai, emerged from stealth with a $9 million Series A led by Venrock and Sierra Ventures. The company offers a subscription platform that deploys AI...
This Startup Is Betting Tokenmaxxing Will Create the Next Compute Giant
Parasail, a cloud‑compute broker focused exclusively on AI inference, closed a $32 million Series A round. The startup claims to process 500 billion tokens a day by dynamically allocating GPU capacity across 40 data centers in 15 countries, buying excess compute on liquidity...
Anthropic Co-Founder Confirms the Company Briefed the Trump Administration on Mythos
Anthropic co‑founder Jack Clark confirmed the company briefed the Trump administration on its unreleased Mythos model, a powerful AI system touted for advanced cybersecurity. The firm has been sued the Department of Defense after being labeled a supply‑chain risk, while...
Max Hodak’s Science Corp. Is Preparing to Place Its First Sensor in a Human Brain
Science Corp, the neurotechnology startup founded by former Neuralink president Max Hodak, has recruited Yale neurobiologist Murat Günel as a scientific adviser to oversee its first U.S. human trials of a bio‑hybrid brain‑computer interface. The company recently closed a $230 million Series C...
Google Adds AI Skills to Chrome to Help You Save Favorite Workflows
Google announced "Skills," a new Chrome feature that lets users save and reuse AI prompts across web pages. The capability builds on Gemini, Google’s generative AI already embedded in the browser, and can be triggered via a slash command or...