Happy Wednesday.
Google's ex-CEO Eric Schmidt gave Arizona's commencement speech and got booed every time he mentioned AI.
Joanna Stern on why: "Students talk to peers who graduated a year before and they're like, oh shit, they don't have jobs".
Jason Calacanis called it "Gen Z's Vietnam".
The WSJ went with "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam."
Meanwhile, Google went all-in at I/O: new Gemini models, agentic Search+, smart glasses, and more. Timing.
Enjoy today's news.
Google I/O '26 in a nutshell:
- Gemini 3.5 Flash ships today, beats Pro on coding, 4x faster
- Google search goes agentic by default
- Smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, fall 2026
- New $100/mo AI Ultra plan: compute-based, no more prompt limits
- Also shipped: Omni (video gen model), Spark (personal agent across Gmail and Docs), and SynthID watermarks going industry-wide with OpenAI and Nvidia
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Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic.
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Viktor raises $75M Series A led by Accel: the "AI coworker" hit $15M ARR in 10 weeks.
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GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories: SSH keys and plaintext passwords had been sitting in a public repo since November.
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Anthropic launches self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels for managed agents: run agents inside your perimeter, your security controls. Live from Code with Claude London.
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OpenAI and Dell partner to bring Codex to company servers: AI coding agents are moving in-house.
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Physical Phones hits $1M: vintage bluetooth landline phones, 10,000 shipped, first pop-up at Shopify NY. People missed slamming the phone.
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Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video for all users: not even Discord can see your calls now.
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Colossal hatched healthy chicks from artificial eggshells: embryos transferred from real fertilized eggs into 3D-printed cups that breathe like the real thing. The tech could eventually help bring extinct birds back.
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Story of Kalshi: they didn't win anything for four years, then built a $22B startup.
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Joe Rogan interviews Marc Andreessen.
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5 things Farza does differently: his AI agent checks email, he takes analog notes at the gym and turns them into apps, built a personal wikipedia of his own life.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. ElevenLabs made an AI Albert Einstein. He answers in his recreated voice, in 70 languages, drawing from his actual writings. You can ask him about the twin paradox right now, he'll explain it. In German, if you want.
