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From The Keyword Google blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: Our New AI Model for the Agentic EraToday we’re excited to launch our next era of models built for this new agentic era: introducing Gemini 2.0, our most capable model yet. With new advances in multimodality —

The flags are still flying, celebrating the man, not the country. Why is this something that happens now, and why is it something only happening on one end of the political spectrum?

Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow KnifeFor a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly

Casey Newton on Platformer: The Phony Comforts of AI SkepticismThe most persuasive way you can demonstrate the reality of AI, though, is to describe how it is already being used today. Not in speculative sci-fi scenarios, but in everyday offices and laboratories and schoolrooms. And not in the ways

It turns out video games really can impact how you view the world.