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Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore

Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore

Published by skeptic

AI agents are everywhere. Every briefing I’ve attended for software companies over the past year has involved some mention of agents—using generative AI tools to automate digital tasks. Despite breakout moments at the start of 2026, like the plucky OpenClaw agent that early adopters used to manage their online life, most people are not yet embracing this style of automation day-to-day. That won’t last for long if Google gets its way. At Google I/O, the tech behemoth shared its vision to make its popular search engine a core way to expose billions of existing users to the company’s agentic prowess. “You will be able to create, customize, and manage multiple AI agents for your many tasks, right in Search,” says Liz Reid, who leads Search at Google. She gives the example of setting up an agent to track stock market trends and send you alerts using real-time data—when specific conditions are met. Alongside these agentic additions coming to Search, Google also announced a new underlying model, Gemini 3.5 Flash, as the global default model for …

Therapy nation: Why Americans can’t stand each other anymore

Therapy nation: Why Americans can’t stand each other anymore

Published by Sam Flores

A growing number of Americans no longer experience political disagreement as disagreement. They experience it as psychological harm. Ordinary conflict is now routinely described using the language once reserved for trauma, abuse, and crisis. People don’t simply disagree with opponents anymore. They describe themselves as “unsafe,” “triggered” or emotionally damaged by exposure to opposing views.… Source link

You Can’t Escape AI Anymore

You Can’t Escape AI Anymore

Published by Daniella Wilson

AI has ascended to the role of main character. When Donald Trump traveled to Beijing for an historic summit last week, AI was one of the central topics of his discussions with Xi Jinping. As the two nations remain locked in a technological arms race, the president brought along some of the United States’ most powerful AI executives, including Elon Musk and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. A continent away, the European Union has been unsuccessfully petitioning Anthropic to grant access to its advanced cybersecurity model, Mythos. Back in the United States, millions of students and teachers are dealing with the fallout of a devastating ransomware attack on the software platform Canvas—a hack that was likely aided by AI tools. And on Thursday, Cisco became the latest major company to justify layoffs by pointing to AI. The past six months have marked a sea change in the reach and influence of AI. For most of 2024 and 2025, there was talk of AI progress slowing down or even stopping altogether. Even as the technology began to infiltrate …

You don’t need to pay for hosting a simple website anymore

You don’t need to pay for hosting a simple website anymore

Published by skeptic

A few months ago, I finally completed work on my RTL-GPS GNSS hobby application, which I intended to make open-source. The application comes with its fair share of documentation, so I needed somewhere to deliver those files online. All that was really needed was a basic site with a landing page and some setup notes online. Normally, I would have treated that like a normal hosting job. Buy some cheap cPanel hosting or a VPS, point a domain at it, maybe install WordPress if I feel like being fancy, and try to remember to maintain it. But that just felt ridiculous for a handful of static HTML and PDF files. So, I bought a domain name for $1 and tried hosting the entire site for free on Cloudflare Pages instead. In the end, the domain was the only thing I actually paid for. The website itself costs absolutely nothing to host, comes with TLS, and is protected by Cloudflare’s proxied connection. Related What Is Cloudflare WARP? Should You Use It? Worried about lags when connecting …

They Don’t Make Celebrities Like Michael Jackson Anymore

They Don’t Make Celebrities Like Michael Jackson Anymore

Published by José Betancourt

A few years ago, Magic Johnson told a story about Michael Jackson that seems almost unimaginable today. In the 1980s, the former Los Angeles Lakers superstar invited Jackson to a Lakers game, an invitation the singer was initially hesitant to accept because he was worried that his presence would create too much of a frenzy. As it turned out, those fears were justified. “He sat down; people went crazy,” Johnson recalled to Variety. “They were running from upstairs, the sides. We had to stop the game to get him out.” As popular as Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Drake are, all have attended sporting events without causing a stoppage in play. But Michael Jackson, after he became famous, was different. He existed on a truly singular plane of stardom—and nearly 20 years after his death, he still inspires a unique level of obsession, devotion, and curiosity from fans, even those who weren’t alive to see him in the flesh. The enormous success of Michael, the recently released biopic about Jackson’s life, is a testament to that …

Merz wouldn’t tell his kids to move to America anymore – POLITICO

Merz wouldn’t tell his kids to move to America anymore – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

“I am a great admirer of America,” Merz added, drawing laughter from the crowd, “but right now my admiration is not increasing.” The comments emphasize the growing rift between Berlin and Washington after weeks of public clashes between Merz and President Donald Trump. The German leader — who previously headed the Atlantik-Brücke, an influential network that promotes U.S.-German ties — told schoolchildren on April 28 that the American president had been “humiliated” by Iran and lacked a coherent strategy for the war that broke out in late February following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian targets. Three days later, on May 1, the Pentagon, following through on an earlier threat by Trump, announced it would withdraw 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany. Despite the tensions, Merz wrote on X on Friday that he had “a good phone call” with Trump — the first since the two had publicly clashed — stressing afterward that “the U.S. and Germany are strong partners in a strong NATO.” Berlin has also turned down U.S. pleas for NATO to become directly involved …

Mark Zuckerberg Is Realizing That When You Treat Your Workers Like Human Garbage, They Might Not Like You Anymore

Mark Zuckerberg Is Realizing That When You Treat Your Workers Like Human Garbage, They Might Not Like You Anymore

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The two key ingredients to Mark Zuckerberg’s all-in AI push? Money, and a heaping serving of misanthropy.  As part of his AI-first regime, Meta has fired thousands of employees while forcing the ones that remain to use the tech as much as possible, speeding them towards burnout. The expectation now is that they run a whole posse of AI agents that work in the background so a single employee can tackle multiple projects at the same time. If an employee doesn’t use AI enough, they’ll get dinged on their performance review. And while Meta’s future looks more uncertain than ever, Zuckerberg has turned his attention towards building a photorealistic AI clone of himself to make his micromanaging presence omnipresent throughout the company. Morale, in other words, has been low. But it can and has gotten worse, after an executive essentially told staffers to suck it up when they questioned a sweeping new data-tracking initiative that many perceived as …

A Teacher Is Quitting The Job Because Schools Don’t Let Kids Fail Anymore

A Teacher Is Quitting The Job Because Schools Don’t Let Kids Fail Anymore

Published by Jenni Sidey

In recent years, teachers have been expected to do more with less and less: fewer resources, less support, even less authority. However, for one teacher, her breaking point was solely about grading. After schools have all but abandoned consequences for skipping class and failing grades, she says that her personal values no longer align with the goals of the education system, and the only choice for her is to stop teaching. Kids are no longer accountable for their performance or their behavior. Students don’t need to apply themselves to pass, and that means teachers aren’t really teaching anymore. A teacher is quitting her job because schools are no longer allowing kids to fail. Torie Fowler, a high school English teacher living in Florida, posted a video explaining exactly why she’s choosing to leave teaching, and it’s because of a newer education concept called “course recovery.” These are programs where students who are struggling in their classes can make up credit through online coursework that is condensed to a few weeks. She specifically mentions one senior …

Stylist Karla Welch Doesn’t Read Best-Dressed Lists Anymore

Stylist Karla Welch Doesn’t Read Best-Dressed Lists Anymore

Published by Sam Flores

Karla Welch was only supposed to style two people for the 2026 Met Gala. She ended up with six: Sarah Paulson, Tessa Thompson, Olivia Wilde, Greta Gerwig, Karlie Kloss, and Misty Copeland. Welch is the fashion equivalent to a Swiss Army knife. Known as a prolific celebrity stylist, she has done a bit of everything, be that styling Kamala Harris while she campaigned alongside Joe Biden and during the better part of her vice presidency; founding the Period Company, a period underwear brand; and starting an app, Wishi, a personal-styling service that connects users with experts for wardrobe advice and shopping recommendations. Welch is also behind some of today’s best-dressed women: Paulson, Thompson, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Renate Reinsve. Just over one week before this year’s Met Gala, Welch posted a TikTok—she’s an enthusiastic social media user—in which she said she’d just been informed that one of her A-list clients was attending the festivities. How does one pull off the presumably gargantuan task of putting together a Met-worthy look in a week? I called Welch …

You don’t need a powerful PC to run the biggest open models anymore — thanks to Nvidia

You don’t need a powerful PC to run the biggest open models anymore — thanks to Nvidia

Published by skeptic

I have been getting really into local LLMs lately, and I’ve even built my own local AI server. The problem is that it is an extremely expensive hobby, and I do not have thousands of dollars in hardware lying around to scratch that itch properly. But I still find myself wanting to try out the biggest open-weight models, and I think I have found a pretty good solution to that. Related I’ll never pay for AI again AI doesn’t have to cost you a dime—local models are fast, private, and finally worth switching to. Nvidia Build lets you run open-weight models your hardware can’t Inference for free Screenshot by Raghav -NAR Nvidia Build is basically Nvidia’s cloud inference platform for running local LLMs. Without complicating too much, Nvidia Build basically takes open-weight models, optimizes them to run on their own DGX Cloud hardware, and gives you API access to them. To get started, just head over to the Nvidia Build website and create a new account. Once you have done that, I would recommend going …