Grant Harvey

Jeff Dean, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Noam Shazeer, and Oriol Vinyals gave the clearest version yet of Google’s Gemini strategy: one unified model, better coding and agents, world models, self-improvement, and a lot more work on memory, evaluation, and hardware.

OpenAI launched Rosalind Biodefense; Kog hit 3,000 output tokens/s on standard GPUs; Google pushed Gemini Spark; Microsoft worked on a Copilot super app; Nvidia bet on photonics; plus much more.

Companies spent the last year telling employees to use AI more. Now Amazon, Uber, and the rest of corporate America are learning that token usage is a terrible proxy for actual work.

We walked through what AI agents are, how automations work, what confusing terms like API, webhook, JSON, and MCP mean, and how tools like ClickUp, Make, Zapier, n8n, Codex, and Cloudflare Workers fit together.

Anthropic turned Opus 4.8 into a whole news cycle; IBM committed $10B to fault-tolerant quantum; Waymo opened rides in its new Ojai robotaxi; AI costs hit enterprise sticker shock; plus many more.

Robinhood opened trading and virtual cards to AI agents; AxiomProver produced peer-reviewed machine-verified math proofs; OpenAI and Thrive built self-improving tax agents; Google launched AI Threat Defense; Amazon MGM greenlit GenAI-funded series; plus much more.

China curbed AI talent travel; Qualcomm struck a ByteDance chip deal; OpenRouter raised $113M; xAI finished Grok V9-Medium; US law enforcement warned of anti-tech extremism; plus much more.

As AI backlash grows around data centers, jobs, surveillance, and power, the State is preparing to protect AI infrastructure while "the church", in this case Pope Leo XIV, is asking a harder question: who gets to participate in, benefit from, and morally shape the buildout?