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Simon Willison: A quote from SpaceX S-1 (May 20, 2026)
SpaceX will train Grok 5 at COLOSSUS II, and sell COLOSSUS compute to customers. In May 2026 it signed cloud deals with Anthropic for $1.25 billion per month through May 2029. -
Simon Willison: Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything (May 19, 2026)
Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash to general availability, deploying it across Search, Gemini app, developer tools, and enterprise products, with massive token limits and a January 2025 knowledge cutoff. It includes a major price hike. -
Developers Googleblog: An important update: Transitioning Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI (May 19, 2026)
Gemini CLI becomes Antigravity CLI, available now, keeping Agent Skills, Hooks, Subagents, and Extensions, with faster Go performance and asynchronous multi-agent workflows. -
NY Times: How Google Is Starting to Win the A.I. Race (May 19, 2026)
Google’s Gemini has rapidly improved, doubled to 900 million users, and been integrated into search, Docs, Gmail, Maps, and soon Apple’s iPhone, making it widely available. Its scale, product integration, and ad monetization position Google to lead the A.I. race. -
Google: Google Search’s I/O 2026 updates: AI agents and more (May 19, 2026)
Search now uses Gemini 3.5 Flash in AI Mode, and a reimagined AI Search box handles text, images, files, videos, and tabs. -
TechCrunch: Google Search as you know it is over (May 19, 2026)
Google unveiled an AI overhaul of Search, replacing ‘ten blue links’ with a conversational search box, AI overviews, and mini‑apps. Information agents will monitor the web, send alerts, and synthesize updates/ -
Google: Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action (May 19, 2026)
Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers frontier-level intelligence, fast performance, and strong multimodal coding abilities. It accelerates long-horizon, multi-step tasks, reduces cost, and powers interactive UIs across consumer, developer, and enterprise products. -
WSJ: Standard Chartered CEO Walks Back Comment About Replacing ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’ With AI (May 20, 2026)
Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters said the bank would cut about 7,800 support jobs and replace “lower-value human capital” with AI, drawing public criticism. He later softened his remarks, promising redeployment. -
WSJ Opinion: How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI (May 20, 2026)
Cloudflare cut over 20% of staff because AI can automate measurement roles, including audit, operations, finance, and middle management, while builders and sellers remain essential. -
NY Times: UK Institute Is Hunting for Dangers Lurking in AI (May 24, 2026)
Britain’s A.I. Security Institute, staffed by weapons inspectors, epidemiologists, and code breakers, probes leading models for dangerous failures, coaxing them into giving weapon-making and hacking instructions. -
Nan Ransohoff: The third wave of American philanthropy (May 19, 2026)
AI-linked wealth could free $37–100B annually in new philanthropy, a 6–17% rise on US giving. The philanthropic sector lacks enough organizations, leaders, and grant infrastructure to absorb this capital, and funders will favor fast, tech-savvy, high-impact teams.