Alec Humes

📢 🇨🇦 Calling all Canadian tech startups! There's only a few days left to apply for the Google for Startups Accelerator: Canada 2025 cohort! Learn more here ➡️ g.co/acceleratorcan… FR: startup.google.com/intl/fr/progra…

Yesterday was an incredible day for our merchants and for Shopify: * Merchants drove a record-breaking $5 billion Black Friday in sales (GMV) * Peak sales / minute for yesterday = $4.6 million * Shopify's egress processed more than 173B requests * Peak requests per minute was at 284 million on edge, with more than 80 million on app servers pushing 12TB a minute * 45 million peak database queries per second, peak database writes was 7.6 million per second * We rely on Kafka. At peak we hit 66 million messages per second Let's keep going 🔥

Just downloaded Gemini Live, and I’m absolutely blown away. Speaking directly to AI with zero latency—this voice interaction is the future of consumer AI. Incredible work, @sundarpichai. Truly groundbreaking. Try it immediately: apps.apple.com/us/app/google-…”

En menos de 6 minutos, Toni Kroos lesionó a Pedri y pisó a Lamine Yamal. No vio tarjeta por ninguna de las dos entradas. Debería estar expulsado. El arbitraje es escandaloso.

Welcome to the Gemini era !✨ Completely blown away by all announcements at #GoogleIO Check out the full collection here: lnkd.in/e-RYU-c5 #Google #DeepMind #GoogleCloud

We're working with @TD_Canada to support its delivery of innovative banking experiences and help it adapt quickly to changing market and client needs. bnnbloomberg.ca/td-bank-google…

Hey Canada – guess what! Bard is now called Gemini and it’s officially available in Canada from coast-to-coast-to-coast. 🥳🎊🇨🇦

Hé, Canada ! Devinez quoi ! Bard s'appelle désormais Gemini et est officiellement disponible au Canada d'un océan à l'autre. 🥳🎊🇨🇦

Gemini live in Canada 🇨🇦 gemini.google.com

It gets called back, but WOW!

Turns out the officiating crew that stole this game from the #Lions is the same refs that blew the #Chiefs-#Packers game a few weeks ago. They should literally lose their jobs because if the Lions lose Home field advantage in the playoffs over it, some coaches/players might lose their jobs as well. The NFL can't look the other way right? t.co/34LbsNZ4NR

Huge news! Today, we announce Gemini, @Google's largest and most capable AI model 🙌 A massive milestone and a tremendous advancement in the development of AI. Read more about Gemini and its availability here: lnkd.in/du_kNH9E #GoogleDeepMind #GeminiAI

Love that @MLB is using @GoogleCloud to literally change the game using Anthos and GKE to power Hawkeye and Statcast #GoogleCloud #HybridCloud google.smh.re/3KNu

@GoogleCloud is a Leader in the 2023 @Gartner_inc Magic Quadrant™ for #ContainerManagement! google.smh.re/3I7q

@GoogleCloud just mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date - reaching a peak of 398 million requests per second! 🛡️🛡️ Learn more about DDoS attacks and how Google #CloudArmor protects our customers #CloudSecurity google.smh.re/3Hob

💡 Introducing "The executive's guide to generative AI," a resource made by @GoogleCloud highlighting 10 key steps to kickstart your gen AI journey, then getting into industry specific examples. Access the guide here 👇 google.smh.re/3E7P

Still in awe from all the great news and announcements at #GoogleCloudNext Check out a 13 minute recap of the opening keynote from Google Cloud Next ‘23 here - lnkd.in/eMmhfyVy

10 ways for developers to accelerate their learning at #GoogleCloudNext! google.smh.re/32nF

On July 25th, @GoogleStartups is offering 2 free training sessions on #GenAI as part of its in-depth 6-week Startup School program. These sessions are led by Google engineers and are open to all startup founders, regardless of experience level. google.smh.re/2uv5