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The Google Fitbit Air is one of the better attempts at an AI-compatible health tracker. Google Health Coach seems to think I'm on the verge of physical collapse. My sleep is not where it needs to be, hence my unimpressive readiness score. My heart rate variability, a measure of how recovered I am, is below baseline. I'm spending too much time in a hot, humid environment, it says, reminding me temperatures are creeping above 90 degrees Fahrenheit. According to Google's AI coach, I should skip my planned strength workouts. My number one job is to hydrate, stay out of the heat, and try to squeeze in some steps. Also - are my calves feeling any strain? How am I feeling about this assessment? Mixed, honestly. As it turns out, that … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Google has brought Google Earth’s long-hidden flight simulator to the web, making it playable at earth.google.com with no installation required. Launched June 12, 2026, the experimental mode lets users pilot a fighter jet over the platform’s 3D satellite imagery. The feature originally appeared as a keyboard-shortcut easter egg in the 2007 desktop app. For years, […]

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For the past few years, the most visible corner of the AI market has been easy to caricature: OpenAI gets the consumer attention, Anthropic gets the developer love, Google gets the benefit of the doubt with increasingly capable models and a complementary product suite, and everyone else gets to explain why they’re not dead yet. That’s unfair, of course, but not completely wrong. In AI, attention compounds and it’s leading to outsized revenue, with both OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly rushing toward trillion-dollar-sized IPOs on the backs of billions in revenue. So it’s easy to underrate Mistral AI. Honestly, I hadn’t thought of the Paris-based company for a year. Maybe longer. But then Brian Hall announced he’s joining Mistral as CMO, and I had an Arrested Development “Her?” moment. Hall, a longtime Microsoft exec, hired me at AWS and went on to run product marketing at Google Cloud. His move prompted curiosity because Mistral doesn’t dominate developer chatter in the United States or