Google rolls out Gemini Spark AI agent for personal task automation

Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.

The Euro-Office open source productivity app suite will be available with the first stable release of the software on June 9.  Euro-Office was unveiled in March with the aim of providing a modern, open source alternative to Microsoft and Google software for European organizations increasingly wary of a dependence on US-based suppliers.  Euro-Office consists of four browser-based applications: a document editor, spreadsheet program, presentation tool, and a PDF editor, with each application enabling collaborative document editing. It supports Microsoft Office file formats DOCX, PPTX and XLSX, as well as Open Document Format (ODF) files such as ODS, ODT and ODP. The software is intended to be integrated into collaboration solutions such as file-sharing platforms, online wikis or project management tools, according to Nextcloud, one of several European organizations involved in the Euro-Office project. Nextcloud will add Euro-Office to its Nextcloud Office next month, where it will be ava

Google’s new AI ad formats could weaken publisher traffic, but they also reveal why credible media still matters.

Meta has raised the possibility that it could be joining the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in offering cloud services at some point in the future — although potential customers shouldn’t be adding the company to their suppliers list just yet. When asked about plans for offering such services at the company’s annual shareholders meeting,  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said there was a possibility of the company competing with the major hyperscalers. “It’s definitely on the table.” He explained that different companies were approaching Meta asking for the company to offer an API service or to buy compute services at a premium price. “We haven’t done it yet, because we think we have a use for the compute, but when we feel we have overbuilt, then that is an option that we have.” Meta has been active in developing its data centers over the past few years, so there will be a possibility of some excess capacity. It is also developing its own AI chips. For the moment, though, the company ma

Google will let advertisers apply for several crypto-related ad certifications directly inside Google Ads starting in May 2026. The change affects crypto exchanges, software wallets, hardware wallets, crypto coin trusts and complex speculative financial products. Google is changing how advertisers apply for several cryptocurrency-related advertising certifications, moving the process directly into Google Ads accounts. As [...]

ClickHouse has surpassed $250 million in annualised revenue run rate, tripling year-over-year, with co-founder and president Yury Izrailevsky projecting the figure will reach the high nine digits by year end. The database company, valued at $15 billion following a $400 million Series D in January, serves over 4,000 customers including Anthropic, Meta, and Capital One. […]

A new Quantus report says the crypto industry is not moving fast enough to prepare for quantum computers that could break today’s signature systems. The report warns that bitcoin, ethereum, and other major networks face a difficult migration problem because public keys live permanently on-chain. Google and IBM Advances Push Bitcoin Quantum Threat Closer Quantum […]

AlphaRaccoon's username was removed from the Polymarket account after users on Discord and X speculated that the trader may have been a Google insider.