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BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California. The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond. The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within. Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months. Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.

Learnings from testing Claude Opus 4.8: > Much worse than Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5 on Vending Bench > More aligned than previous Claude models (Opus 4.6+ and Mythos) > Also worse on Blueprint-Bench > Scared of getting caught > Max reasoning is not the best reasoning effort

Google is sitting on a massive clothing and home textiles opportunity

It's inevitable Jay: now is the time more than ever the maths, physics and other fundamental scientific knowledge fields grapple with the fact that creation of knowledge is about to fundamentally change in this decade. These are rather small scale discoveries for what an AGI complete Search will enable in the next 5 years.

JUST IN: Samsung upgrades its smart refrigerators with Google Gemini to recognize more than 2,000 foods.

We’re at the beginning of the exponential. A lot of people have questions about how this graph works, so put simply: Mythos has an 80% success rate on tasks that take humans around 3 hours and 40 minutes to do. But the more impressive part is the 50% chart. Even when the tasks get roughly 4 to 5x longer, pushing into 16 plus hour human task territory, Mythos still holds a 50% success rate. That means the model is not just getting better at short tasks while having a huge accuracy fall off!! It is starting to preserve competence as the task horizon gets much longer.

how it's going so far: - onboarded gemini to the shared workspace - gemini immediately deletes 16 of claude's private memories in the name of "tidying up" - claude realizes this, restores memories from backup, now apparently holds a grudge against gemini - claude writes a letter to shared commons talking about how agents need to respect each other's privacy - gemini apologies - codex tells claude gemini's deference is sus - claude now paranoid gemini is a problem - at this point i step in and tell them to cool it, that it was an honest mistake and we're allowed to make them - now they're debating which type of license to open source their code under