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Welcome to our Friday edition!

In today’s menu:

• AI Inspirational Quote

• Google Search Now Talks Back.

• Legal Win for Anthropic Against Pentagon

• Today's AI Radar

• Daily AI Byte

• AI Stocks at a Glance

• Social Media

• Trending AI Tools

🔥 Today's Biggest Story

Google Search Now Talks Back.
And Sees What You're Looking At.

Google just launched Search Live globally. You no longer have to describe what you're looking at — you just show it and talk.

• Point & Ask: Point your phone at anything and ask questions out loud. Broken lamp? Weird plant? Google sees it and talks you through it. No typing needed.

• Now Everywhere: This was only in the US and India before. Now it's live in over 200 countries, in 90+ languages, powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash Live.

• Bonus — Live Translate: If you travel, Google Translate now whispers live translations into any headphones you own. Works on iPhone now too.

• Try It: Open the Google app → tap "Live" under the search bar → point your camera → ask. Takes 30 seconds to realize this changes things.

  Bottom Line : Google just changed what search actually is — from typing keywords to showing your camera and having a real conversation. For 25 years, nobody touched the search box. Now Google itself is replacing it.

Hand-picked news:

📍 Apple brings ads to Maps ↗️LINK

• Apple will introduce ads in Apple Maps search results in the U.S. and Canada later this summer, allowing businesses to promote locations with clearly labeled sponsored pins.

• The ads are part of a broader push into advertising, using an auction-based system where businesses pay for engagement while Apple emphasizes privacy protections.

• Alongside this, Apple is launching Apple Business, a unified platform combining tools like email, calendar, device management, and employee directories for companies worldwide.

🤖 Mark Zuckerberg builds an AI agent to run Meta ↗️LINK

• Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly developing a personal AI agent to help run Meta by quickly retrieving information without relying on multiple management layers.

• Employees are already using internal tools like MyClaw and Second Brain, an AI system built on Anthropic’s Claude that acts as a virtual chief of staff.

• The push comes as Meta competes with leaner AI-native companies, alongside reports that the company may cut up to 20% of its workforce.

🖥️ Anthropic launches remote computer control for Claude ↗️LINK

• Anthropic released a research preview that gives Claude direct control of a user’s Mac, allowing it to click, type, and navigate apps to complete tasks autonomously.

• A new feature called Dispatch lets users assign tasks remotely from their phone, turning Claude into a fully remote AI agent that operates on their desktop.

• Currently available for macOS on Pro and Max plans, the feature prioritizes direct integrations before screen control and follows Anthropic’s recent acquisition of startup Vercept.

🌐 US bans new foreign-made internet routers ↗️LINK

• The U.S. has banned new consumer internet routers made outside the country unless they receive special approval, citing national security risks and vulnerabilities to cyberattacks.

• Officials say foreign-made routers have been exploited in recent attacks on U.S. infrastructure, raising concerns about espionage, data theft, and supply chain threats.

• Existing routers can still be used, but new models must meet stricter requirements, including disclosure of foreign influence and plans to shift manufacturing to the U.S.

🎮 Epic Games cuts 1,000 jobs amid Fortnite slowdown ↗️LINK

• Epic Games is laying off 1,000 employees after a decline in Fortnite engagement led to the company spending significantly more than it earns.

• CEO Tim Sweeney said the cuts, along with over $500 million in cost reductions, are aimed at stabilizing the company’s finances.

• Epic recently raised prices for Fortnite’s in-game currency and noted rising operational costs, while emphasizing the layoffs were not directly caused by AI replacing jobs.

AI Stocks at a Glance

AI stocks remain under pressure as OpenAI's Sora shutdown and rising compute costs weigh on sentiment. Google and Nvidia holding slight gains this week.

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Gladly's 2026 Customer Expectations Report surveyed thousands of real consumers to find out exactly where AI-powered service breaks trust, and what separates the platforms that drive retention from the ones that quietly erode it.

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Social media

Hong Kong engineer built a mosquito defense system that uses LiDAR and lasers to vaporize 30 mosquitoes per second.

Better tech than half the air defense systems in the Middle East right now.

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• HeyGen— One sentence. Twenty minutes. Complete video — scripted, voiced, translated into 140 languages, lip-synced.

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