Sundar Pichai@sundarpichai

Today we’re launching the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our new Gemini Decision 1 model in @GoogleAIStudio.

Instead of generating text token by token, it’s built for closed-set choices scoring up to 1,000 questions across text, images, audio, video + PDFs in a single pass. A few details:

– 3 decision types: yes/no, multiple choice (up to 255 options) + rubric scoring
– $0.10 / 1M input tokens with $0 billed for output tokens (~5x cheaper than Flash-Lite)
– leads on several benchmark evals with lowest calibration error

Google teams are already building with it, below is a look at Stitch Rapid designing a full product flow in seconds (1x speed)

Professor G R Sinha@profgrsinha

DRDO Paid Internship 2027 -Engineering & Science

An Opportunity for eligible UG and PG students to gain hands-on research and technical experience with the Defence Geoinformatics Research Establishment (DGRE), DRDO, Chandigarh.

🔹 Internship Duration: 6 Months
🔹 Monthly Stipend: ₹5,000
🔹 Internship Start Date: 1 January 2027
🔹 Last Date to Apply: 6 December 2026

Eligible Disciplines:
🎓 Undergraduate (B. Tech. – Final Year)
Computer Science & Engineering – 2 positions
Civil Engineering – 2 positions

🎓 Postgraduate (2nd Year M. Sc./M.Tech)
Remote Sensing / Geoinformatics – 2 positions

Eligibility Criteria:
▪️ Minimum 75% marks or 7.5 CGPA
▪️ Age below 28 years
▪️ Indian citizens pursuing full-time courses
▪️ Internship must be part of the degree programme
▪️ Recommendation letter from Principal/HOD/TPO.

📍 Location: DGRE, Sector 37-A, Chandigarh

📌 Applications must be submitted through Speed Post in the prescribed format.

Advertisement: drdo.gov.in/drdo/sites/defau…

Students meeting the eligibility criteria are encouraged to explore this opportunity and gain valuable exposure to research and defence-related applications.

Please share with eligible students and academic institutions.

#DRDO #PaidInternship #Internship2027 #EngineeringStudents #ResearchOpportunities #RemoteSensing #Geoinformatics #ComputerScience #CivilEngineering #StudentOpportunities #HigherEducation #ProfGRSinha @DRDO_India

jack@jack

buzz 1.0 is finally here! the most flexible team workspace out there. for humans and agents, model agnostic, local or cloud, and infinitely extendable.

buzz.xyz

Francis Davidson@FDavidsonT

OpenAI Acquires Odessia

I’m thrilled to announce that Odessia was acquired by OpenAI, and that I will be joining the team to focus on the future of travel.

Read original on X

a16z@a16z

HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah says ChatGPT and Claude are the new browsers, and like browsers, they won't own the whole software stack:

"Everything kind of comes back around again. When we saw the original SaaS development moving to the web-based application world, we had the same kind of thing. We had client-server apps running on our desktops. And then we had this browser thing come along, Internet Explorer and later Mozilla."

"But as it turns out, Google did not own the entire application stack. There were lots and lots of software companies that got built. The interface became the browser because that was a convenient way to get to the actual product that you needed to get to."

"We have a similar thing now. And it's different, because the AI is doing cognition work, it's doing actual smart things. But if you just look at the ChatGPT and Claude Cowork thing, they're effectively the new OS. They are the new browsers. And there will be companies like HubSpot that sort of plug in."

@dharmesh

Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet

Announcing a major milestone achieved by my team @GoogleDeepMind: we have proven key security properties of the machine code underlying the Signal messaging protocol. This is the first time the actual production code of a widely deployed protocol has been formally verified – by any method, with or without AI – and at this depth.

More than a research breakthrough, it’s a prime example of how frontier AI can be a force multiplier to counter the speed and scale of modern cyber threats.

Formal verification offers a higher standard of security; however, it’s extremely complex and time consuming, which is why in many cases it’s considered to be impractical. Similar efforts could take teams decades of combined effort. We did it in a month’s time.

Using AlphaProof Code, Google DeepMind’s new agentic framework for formal verification that runs on LLMs including Gemini Carbon, we verified the Signal protocol down to the actual code running on devices. This milestone lays the groundwork for a future in which vital systems, from medical device firmware to power grid software, ship with mathematical proof that their protections work.

Reaching that future will take continued research from our community. In that spirit, we’re open-sourcing our formal specifications and verification artifacts so others can build on this work.

On a personal note, this moment is of deep significance to me. I started my own research journey more than two decades ago as an intern working on checking the consistency of complex software systems. Seeing this grand challenge made practical with modern AI is extraordinary.

I’m extremely proud of my team members: Swarat Chaudhuri, Andrew Ferraiuolo, Anton Kovsharov, Tej Chajed, Sam Schlesinger, Karn Seth, Jonathan Katz, and Charles Sutton for taking on this grand challenge and delivering, and grateful to the Signal team for their partnership.

deepmind.google/blog/formal-…

Soham Sankaran@sohamsankaran

AI-designed viruses are coming, and our team @PopVaxIndia is building the Immune Engine to produce medicines against these threats within 4 weeks from sequencing. We’re basing this work, led by @hcherzig, in London because of the UK’s prescient vision in AI safety & biosecurity.

Just as @ukgov were the first government to establish an AI safety & security lab @AISecurityInst, they are now the first government to set up a dedicated organisation to combat the biosecurity risks created by generative AI, which require a different approach than natural threats.

We’ve been talking with the team building the AI Biosecurity Lab over the past few weeks, and we’re confident that they’re building an institution that is capable of meeting the enormous challenges that lie ahead. We look forward to working with them to help secure the world against the threat of AI-enabled bioweapons.

Anand Mahindra@anandmahindra

I recently posted about the irony of India coming back into favour with global investors, partly because we were seen as being outside the supposedly overheated AI trade.

But perhaps there’s another way to look at it.

Stanford now ranks India #3 in global AI vibrancy.

No, we don’t make the most advanced chips or lead the race in foundational LLMs.

But I’m reminded of an analogy I used in Tech Mahindra’s Annual Report.

Smartphones created the platform. Apps unlocked their potential. James Carville famously said, “It’s the economy, stupid!” Perhaps the AI version should be, “It’s the ecosystem, stupid!”

The real explosion of applications, domain expertise & enterprise-wide deployment may still lie ahead.

And with our software talent, systems integration expertise & enormous domestic market for AI use cases, surely India has a promising hand to play?

Perhaps India isn’t just a refuge from the AI hype. It may have a compelling AI opportunity of its own.

And if that’s true, the renewed interest in Indian equities may have more staying power than we think…

Sridhar Vembu@svembu

“For decades, young Chinese were promised a simple deal: Study hard. Get a good job. Become richer than your parents. That deal is breaking”

China is the factory of the world, has impressive technology capabilities across a vast array of sectors and runs a $1.2 trillion merchandise trade surplus and yet is not able to create jobs for a big cohort of her college-educated youth.

Approximately 70% of all unemployed individuals in the 20-to-24 age group hold university degrees in China.

Our modern educational and economic system around the world trains young people for “steady paycheck” jobs and those jobs are not just not growing, they are under serious challenge due to automation and AI.

This problem is about to get worse, not better.

What is the solution? Dramatic gains in entrepreneurship and self-employment. That has been the foundation of prosperity even in America all the way until the mid 20th century. The rise of the big industrial and corporate “steady paycheck” job is a relatively recent phenomenon. We have to move away from that model.

Policymakers in India must pay heed.

Dinesh Pai@dineshpaii

Every advanced economy has a few quiet monopolies that the rest of the world simply cannot function without.

For instance:

– Without ASML in the Netherlands and Carl Zeiss in Germany, not a single leading-edge AI chip can be printed.

– Without Ajinomoto’s ABF substrate film and Harmonic Drive’s precision gears in Japan, modern CPUs and industrial robots stop working.

– Without TSMC in Taiwan, the world’s most advanced silicon does not get fabricated.

Meanwhile, in India, whenever a consumer or software trend gets hot, we see dozens of nearly identical startups building the same delivery app, D2C brand, or AI wrapper.

Yet if you walk into an Indian hospital ICU, factory floor, biolab, or chip design centre, 90%+ of the core hardware and sub-systems inside are still imported.

Part of this is because hard physics and engineering take 10–15 years to commercialise, a timeline that doesn’t fit traditional VC fund cycles.

And yeah, today we have more and more Indians thinking about this problem, and they’re exceptionally skilled and talented at solving it, too.

At @Rainmatterin, over the past few months, we’ve started asking ourselves one question whenever we meet a company – If this company ceased to exist tomorrow, would customers have 20 local alternatives, or zero?

We want to back early-stage Indian founders, scientists, and engineers building the critical hardware, materials, and deep-tech systems where India currently has zero or near-zero domestic alternatives.

Think precision actuators and robotics, semiconductor tooling, medical imaging and devices, bioprocess hardware, propulsion systems, advanced battery chemistries, and rare-earth-free magnets, and so much more.

If you are one of the only teams in India building what you are building, we’d love to hear from you. Or if you know someone building a one-of-a-kind company, please do also point us to them.

(Please excuse the typos (by AI) in the doodle😄)

Sundar Pichai@sundarpichai

Today we’re launching the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our new Gemini Decision 1 model in @GoogleAIStudio.

Instead of generating text token by token, it’s built for closed-set choices scoring up to 1,000 questions across text, images, audio, video + PDFs in a single pass. A few details:

– 3 decision types: yes/no, multiple choice (up to 255 options) + rubric scoring
– $0.10 / 1M input tokens with $0 billed for output tokens (~5x cheaper than Flash-Lite)
– leads on several benchmark evals with lowest calibration error

Google teams are already building with it, below is a look at Stitch Rapid designing a full product flow in seconds (1x speed)

Professor G R Sinha@profgrsinha

DRDO Paid Internship 2027 -Engineering & Science

An Opportunity for eligible UG and PG students to gain hands-on research and technical experience with the Defence Geoinformatics Research Establishment (DGRE), DRDO, Chandigarh.

🔹 Internship Duration: 6 Months
🔹 Monthly Stipend: ₹5,000
🔹 Internship Start Date: 1 January 2027
🔹 Last Date to Apply: 6 December 2026

Eligible Disciplines:
🎓 Undergraduate (B. Tech. – Final Year)
Computer Science & Engineering – 2 positions
Civil Engineering – 2 positions

🎓 Postgraduate (2nd Year M. Sc./M.Tech)
Remote Sensing / Geoinformatics – 2 positions

Eligibility Criteria:
▪️ Minimum 75% marks or 7.5 CGPA
▪️ Age below 28 years
▪️ Indian citizens pursuing full-time courses
▪️ Internship must be part of the degree programme
▪️ Recommendation letter from Principal/HOD/TPO.

📍 Location: DGRE, Sector 37-A, Chandigarh

📌 Applications must be submitted through Speed Post in the prescribed format.

Advertisement: drdo.gov.in/drdo/sites/defau…

Students meeting the eligibility criteria are encouraged to explore this opportunity and gain valuable exposure to research and defence-related applications.

Please share with eligible students and academic institutions.

#DRDO #PaidInternship #Internship2027 #EngineeringStudents #ResearchOpportunities #RemoteSensing #Geoinformatics #ComputerScience #CivilEngineering #StudentOpportunities #HigherEducation #ProfGRSinha @DRDO_India

jack@jack

buzz 1.0 is finally here! the most flexible team workspace out there. for humans and agents, model agnostic, local or cloud, and infinitely extendable.

buzz.xyz

Francis Davidson@FDavidsonT

OpenAI Acquires Odessia

I’m thrilled to announce that Odessia was acquired by OpenAI, and that I will be joining the team to focus on the future of travel.

Read original on X

a16z@a16z

HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah says ChatGPT and Claude are the new browsers, and like browsers, they won't own the whole software stack:

"Everything kind of comes back around again. When we saw the original SaaS development moving to the web-based application world, we had the same kind of thing. We had client-server apps running on our desktops. And then we had this browser thing come along, Internet Explorer and later Mozilla."

"But as it turns out, Google did not own the entire application stack. There were lots and lots of software companies that got built. The interface became the browser because that was a convenient way to get to the actual product that you needed to get to."

"We have a similar thing now. And it's different, because the AI is doing cognition work, it's doing actual smart things. But if you just look at the ChatGPT and Claude Cowork thing, they're effectively the new OS. They are the new browsers. And there will be companies like HubSpot that sort of plug in."

@dharmesh

Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet

Announcing a major milestone achieved by my team @GoogleDeepMind: we have proven key security properties of the machine code underlying the Signal messaging protocol. This is the first time the actual production code of a widely deployed protocol has been formally verified – by any method, with or without AI – and at this depth.

More than a research breakthrough, it’s a prime example of how frontier AI can be a force multiplier to counter the speed and scale of modern cyber threats.

Formal verification offers a higher standard of security; however, it’s extremely complex and time consuming, which is why in many cases it’s considered to be impractical. Similar efforts could take teams decades of combined effort. We did it in a month’s time.

Using AlphaProof Code, Google DeepMind’s new agentic framework for formal verification that runs on LLMs including Gemini Carbon, we verified the Signal protocol down to the actual code running on devices. This milestone lays the groundwork for a future in which vital systems, from medical device firmware to power grid software, ship with mathematical proof that their protections work.

Reaching that future will take continued research from our community. In that spirit, we’re open-sourcing our formal specifications and verification artifacts so others can build on this work.

On a personal note, this moment is of deep significance to me. I started my own research journey more than two decades ago as an intern working on checking the consistency of complex software systems. Seeing this grand challenge made practical with modern AI is extraordinary.

I’m extremely proud of my team members: Swarat Chaudhuri, Andrew Ferraiuolo, Anton Kovsharov, Tej Chajed, Sam Schlesinger, Karn Seth, Jonathan Katz, and Charles Sutton for taking on this grand challenge and delivering, and grateful to the Signal team for their partnership.

deepmind.google/blog/formal-…

Soham Sankaran@sohamsankaran

AI-designed viruses are coming, and our team @PopVaxIndia is building the Immune Engine to produce medicines against these threats within 4 weeks from sequencing. We’re basing this work, led by @hcherzig, in London because of the UK’s prescient vision in AI safety & biosecurity.

Just as @ukgov were the first government to establish an AI safety & security lab @AISecurityInst, they are now the first government to set up a dedicated organisation to combat the biosecurity risks created by generative AI, which require a different approach than natural threats.

We’ve been talking with the team building the AI Biosecurity Lab over the past few weeks, and we’re confident that they’re building an institution that is capable of meeting the enormous challenges that lie ahead. We look forward to working with them to help secure the world against the threat of AI-enabled bioweapons.

Anand Mahindra@anandmahindra

I recently posted about the irony of India coming back into favour with global investors, partly because we were seen as being outside the supposedly overheated AI trade.

But perhaps there’s another way to look at it.

Stanford now ranks India #3 in global AI vibrancy.

No, we don’t make the most advanced chips or lead the race in foundational LLMs.

But I’m reminded of an analogy I used in Tech Mahindra’s Annual Report.

Smartphones created the platform. Apps unlocked their potential. James Carville famously said, “It’s the economy, stupid!” Perhaps the AI version should be, “It’s the ecosystem, stupid!”

The real explosion of applications, domain expertise & enterprise-wide deployment may still lie ahead.

And with our software talent, systems integration expertise & enormous domestic market for AI use cases, surely India has a promising hand to play?

Perhaps India isn’t just a refuge from the AI hype. It may have a compelling AI opportunity of its own.

And if that’s true, the renewed interest in Indian equities may have more staying power than we think…

Sridhar Vembu@svembu

“For decades, young Chinese were promised a simple deal: Study hard. Get a good job. Become richer than your parents. That deal is breaking”

China is the factory of the world, has impressive technology capabilities across a vast array of sectors and runs a $1.2 trillion merchandise trade surplus and yet is not able to create jobs for a big cohort of her college-educated youth.

Approximately 70% of all unemployed individuals in the 20-to-24 age group hold university degrees in China.

Our modern educational and economic system around the world trains young people for “steady paycheck” jobs and those jobs are not just not growing, they are under serious challenge due to automation and AI.

This problem is about to get worse, not better.

What is the solution? Dramatic gains in entrepreneurship and self-employment. That has been the foundation of prosperity even in America all the way until the mid 20th century. The rise of the big industrial and corporate “steady paycheck” job is a relatively recent phenomenon. We have to move away from that model.

Policymakers in India must pay heed.

Dinesh Pai@dineshpaii

Every advanced economy has a few quiet monopolies that the rest of the world simply cannot function without.

For instance:

– Without ASML in the Netherlands and Carl Zeiss in Germany, not a single leading-edge AI chip can be printed.

– Without Ajinomoto’s ABF substrate film and Harmonic Drive’s precision gears in Japan, modern CPUs and industrial robots stop working.

– Without TSMC in Taiwan, the world’s most advanced silicon does not get fabricated.

Meanwhile, in India, whenever a consumer or software trend gets hot, we see dozens of nearly identical startups building the same delivery app, D2C brand, or AI wrapper.

Yet if you walk into an Indian hospital ICU, factory floor, biolab, or chip design centre, 90%+ of the core hardware and sub-systems inside are still imported.

Part of this is because hard physics and engineering take 10–15 years to commercialise, a timeline that doesn’t fit traditional VC fund cycles.

And yeah, today we have more and more Indians thinking about this problem, and they’re exceptionally skilled and talented at solving it, too.

At @Rainmatterin, over the past few months, we’ve started asking ourselves one question whenever we meet a company – If this company ceased to exist tomorrow, would customers have 20 local alternatives, or zero?

We want to back early-stage Indian founders, scientists, and engineers building the critical hardware, materials, and deep-tech systems where India currently has zero or near-zero domestic alternatives.

Think precision actuators and robotics, semiconductor tooling, medical imaging and devices, bioprocess hardware, propulsion systems, advanced battery chemistries, and rare-earth-free magnets, and so much more.

If you are one of the only teams in India building what you are building, we’d love to hear from you. Or if you know someone building a one-of-a-kind company, please do also point us to them.

(Please excuse the typos (by AI) in the doodle😄)