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TechCrunch 1 month ago 17
Barret Zoph, co-founder of Thinking Machines and former OpenAI executive, has joined Google as vice president of research. He spent five months at OpenAI, leaving in June. His move shifts his RL and post-training work to Google’s Gemini team.
Google Research 1 month ago 5
Google introduced the Planetary Prediction Engine (PPE) within Google Earth AI, an experimental system that autonomously runs the full geospatial modeling workflow from natural-language queries. It reports improving US CDC public-health indicator prediction to a mean R² of 76.8% versus 60.0% for a manual expert pipeline. As a result, model building time is reduced from weeks with manual data engineering to minutes, and the system can generate benchmark improvements without manual intervention across multiple prediction tasks.
TechCrunch 1 month ago 4
Google added flight price tracking and hotel discovery/booking features to AI Mode, its conversational search tool for trip planning. Flight price tracking is available in more than 180 countries. These changes let users ask AI Mode to monitor prices, generate options with updated prices, and complete flight/hotel booking via Google partners and Google Pay.
TechCrunch 1 month ago 14
Google updated Android app quality requirements to address memory chip shortages linked to the AI data center boom. The new thresholds must be met by February 2027. Android apps and games will have to limit dynamic memory and bitmap usage, meet code optimization targets, and use tools like alerts plus a Memory Limiter to prevent exceeding device memory limits.
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16 October 2026
The biggest thread today is that “agentic AI” is getting practical through layers that control what models know, how they reason, and what they’re allowed to do with that knowledge. Raymond James Financial is using knowledge graphs as a reasoning layer for agentic systems built over trusted financial data, with evaluations against “golden sources” and a claim of 100% accuracy before launch—an explicit bid to move advisors from manual screen-hunting to supervising AI agents. Uvi’s pitch is similar in spirit but aimed at cost: it says semantic, permissioned company knowledge graphs can cut per-answer tool/context costs from roughly $0.75–$1.41 (sometimes over $2.00) down to $0.10–$0.16 by avoiding repeated “amnesia”-style re-collection from Slack, Jira, and GitHub.
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