Macaulay Porter

First Lady Melania Trump’s Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit at the U.S. State Department twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Saint Patrick’s Day 2026 🍀

I'm voting NO on Virginia Democrats' unconstitutional, illegal power grab to gerrymander the Commonwealth. Here's why:

Ruth Porat, President and CIO of Alphabet and @Google: "To protect American ratepayers, we’re committed not only to pay for 100% of the energy we use, but, very importantly, the infrastructure to support that growth, whether or not we end up using that energy."

Introducing Nano Banana 2, our best image model yet 🍌🍌 It uses Gemini’s understanding of the world and is powered by real-time information and images from web search. That means it can better reflect real-world conditions in high-fidelity. Check out "Window Seat," a demo using Nano Banana 2’s world understanding to generate more accurate views from any window in the world, pulling live local weather info with 2K/4K specs. The precision is mind blowing. Rolling out today as the new default in the @Geminiapp, Search (across 141 countries), and Flow + available in preview via @GoogleAIStudio and Vertex AI. Also available in Google @Antigravity.

Team USA in the Oval Office! 🇺🇸

CHAMPIONS IN THE HOUSE 🦅🇺🇸

Democrats in Virginia have introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies.

Wow

Democrats now control the legislature and Governor's office in Virginia. Here are just a few of the bills they've introduced - New 4.3% sales tax on Uber Eats, Amazon, etc deliveries. - New sales tax on admissions to a wide variety of businesses. - Create two new higher tax brackets of 8% and 10% on people making over $600K. - A new 10% tax bracket for anyone making over $1M. - 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes. - Raise the hotel tax. - New personal property tax on landscaping equipment. - Ban gas powered leaf blowers. - Guarantee illegal aliens free education. - Make it illegal to approach somebody at an abortion clinic. - Extend the time absentee ballots can be received after election day to three days - Allow people to cast their votes electronically through the internet. - Expand ranked-choice voting. - Extend the deadline for ballot curing to one week after election day. - Redact the addresses of political candidates from FOIAs. - Add Virginia to the National Popular Vote Compact for presidential electors. - Make it illegal to hand count ballots. - $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors . - "Assault weapons" and large capacity magazine ban. - 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition. - Prohibit outdoor shooting of a firearm on land less than 5 acres. - Lower the criminal penalties for robbery. - Ban the arrest of illegal aliens in courthouses. - Remove mandatory minimum sentences. - Allow localities to install speed cameras. - Replace Columbus Day with "Indigenous Peoples Day."

BOOM!

Today, we are unleashing GenAi.mil This platform puts the worlds most powerful frontier AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior. We will continue to aggressively field the world’s best technology to make our fighting force more lethal than ever before. And all, American made.

THE TRUMP EFFECT! 🇺🇸 @Google is investing $40 BILLION in Texas AI infrastructure – creating thousands of American jobs, training college students and apprentices, and boosting affordable energy statewide. America First is delivering BIG wins!

Google is filing a federal lawsuit against a network of foreign cybercriminals based in China that is accused of launching massive text-message phishing attacks, the tech giant told CBS News in an exclusive interview. cbsn.ws/4nVgWps

America’s Veterans have made our country – and our military – the greatest in the world. On Veterans Day, we honor these patriots, celebrate them for protecting our freedoms and salute them for keeping us safe. dcjournal.com/honoring-veter…

New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in @Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage. Willow ran the algorithm - which we’ve named Quantum Echoes - 13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world's fastest supercomputers. This new algorithm can explain interactions between atoms in a molecule using nuclear magnetic resonance, paving a path towards potential future uses in drug discovery and materials science. And the result is verifiable, meaning its outcome can be repeated by other quantum computers or confirmed by experiments. This breakthrough is a significant step toward the first real-world application of quantum computing, and we're excited to see where it leads.

Today we introduced a new partnership with Alex Cooper and the Unwell Network. Alex and her media network will use the Google ecosystem — including tools like Pixel, Gemini and more — to manage their operational and creative needs. Learn more. goo.gle/4pT1Z9D

Happy Friday! 🥳 Here is our weekly round up of launches from this week: —@NotebookLM launched a whole suite of education features including flashcards, quizzes, and a series of public notebooks in partnership with @OpenStax —@NotebookLM also launched a major update to their reports, with customization, AI-suggested formats, and blog posts. —@GooglePhotos users in the U.S. can now turn photos into short videos with Veo 3 in the Create tab. —We launched vertical format videos in @FlowbyGoogle and via the Gemini API. —We reduced prices in the Gemini API by ~50%, for Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast. —AI Mode in @Google Search is now available in five new languages (Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese).

Never Forget.