AI News Archive: May 29, 2026 — Part 8
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- US stock markets today (May 30, 2026): S&P 500, Nasdaq extend record run as Dell jumps 33% on AI demand
US stocks continued their record-setting rally, driven by strong earnings and AI optimism, pushing major indices higher. Despite inflation and geopolitical concerns, investor sentiment was buoyed by hopes of a US-Iran ceasefire extension, easing energy market pressures. Technology stocks, particularly Dell, led the gains as markets closed the week on a positive note.
- Sargasso Capital Management Launches With Research Paper on the AI Implementation Gap in Public Equities
Sargasso Capital Management Launches With Research Paper on the AI Implementation Gap in Public Equities azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- You can now choose how hard Claude thinks before answering your queries
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 update lets you control how hard Claude thinks before it answers.
- It’s Summertime and AI Means Internships Aren’t Easy
With chatbots like Claude around, more companies are cutting back on internships.
- 10 Best SoundHound Alternatives for Enterprise Voice and Conversational AI (2026)
Explore top SoundHound alternatives for enterprise voice and conversational AI solutions in 2026.
- Gap Lowers Sales Outlook; Dell Soars on AI Demand | Stock Movers
On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Dell (DELL) shares are soaring after the company gave an outlook for annual sales that far surpassed analysts’ estimates, fueled by demand for servers that power artificial intelligence work. - Gap (GAP) shares plunged after the company lowered its sales outlook due to struggles with its product mix. - NetApp (NTAP) shares jumped after the data storage provider reported its latest earnings. Analyst say the report is a strong print from the company, showing strong growth, with upgrades to consensus expected. (Source: Bloomberg)
Score: 25🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-05-29/gap-lowers-sales-outlook-dell-soars-on-ai-demand-video - Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks
Amazon is pulling an internal AI ranking system, the Financial Times reports, after employees inflated their scores through meaningless AI usage and driving up the company's cloud costs in the process. The article Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks appeared first on The Decoder .
Score: 25🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://the-decoder.com/amazon-kills-internal-ai-leaderboard-after-employees-gamed-it-with-pointless-tasks/ - Check out real-life AI prototypes from the Futures Lab.
University of Waterloo students develop AI prototypes like sign language tutors to reshape the future of education and work.
Score: 25🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/university-waterloo-labs/ - Leaning into disruption: How Perficient delivers real outcomes in an AI-first world
Five years ago, enterprise technology roadmaps stretched across half a decade. Then they shifted to three years. Today, many organizations are planning just 18 months ahead, and even that horizon is getting shorter. As AI accelerates innovation, the challenge is no longer access to technology. The challenge is applying it effectively in a world that […] The post Leaning into disruption: How Perficient delivers real outcomes in an AI-first world appeared first on IDC .
- Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety
At the risk of embarrassing myself, I’ll share a confession. For context, I took five years of Latin: four in high school and one in college. In addition to learning the language, all my Latin classes taught a lot about Roman history. Emperors, internal politics, Caesar, etc. I was always learning some random bag of facts about Roman history. In high school, I won the award for top Latin student in my graduating class. So I wasn’t a bad Latin student. Here’s the confession: I somehow don’t even vaguely remember the rough timespan the Roman Empire existed. Maybe Jesus time? I know he was killed by the Romans (is that right?). Were they around for a long time after? A long time before that? When was Romulus and Remus allegedly fighting? Virgil wrote the Aeneid when? I don’t have a clue. Despite being a kind of “Latin expert” I am missing a much more important foundational fact: when all of this was happening. When I say trees are made out of air I’m not talking about the fact that there is a lot of empty space inside a tree (or actually anything made out of atoms). I mean something more mind-blowing. Imagine you are holding a piece of dry wood. Where did that wood come from? A tree. Okay sure, but what are you actually holding? Where did the tree get that stuff? It turns out that almost all of the mass in dry wood comes from the in the air. This follows from a simple fact about how photosynthesis works: The carbon and the oxygen in the glucose ( ) come from the and the hydrogen comes from the water. Since hydrogen is the lightest atom in the universe, it adds almost no mass, so nearly all the mass of glucose traces back to the . Wood is mostly built from glucose, so by mass, a dead tree is mostly the carbon and oxygen that came out of the air. It’s kind of unintuitive. Wood is hard and stiff and air is not even close to either of those things. But if you are a biologist or know some basic chemistry you would think that this is the kind of obvious thing you would want to know. At the very least you would expect the best math and science students in the world to be familiar with such basic biology. But take a look at this video of a documentary film crew asking MIT graduates where they think wood comes from: One student, upon being told that most of the mass in the wood comes from and not the dirt in the ground, said “that's very disturbing and I wonder how that could happen.” And that’s an MIT graduate. “Trees come from mostly air” is pretty fundamental for biology because it follows from photosynthesis which is in many ways the basis for life on earth. In a sane world, every 8th grader would know that dry wood is mostly , not like minerals found in the ground or something. MIT grads probably have vast amounts of detailed knowledge of math, physics, biology, chemistry or all of the above. But they don’t know some basic facts about biology. There is this assumption that you should first learn the foundational facts of an area of study and then move to more and more specific questions and ideas. As you move up levels of classes, the foundational stuff seems more and more basic and less and less relevant. Some stuff is continually hammered in because it’s useful background knowledge. In a perfect world, this helps you internalize the basics and learn how to reason about them to solve harder and harder problems. There are some areas where, without much effort, this may work out. For example, you learn fractions in first or second grade but will probably understand them more deeply by the time you get to calculus because you need to know fractions to do calculus and all the classes that come before calculus. But not all foundational knowledge is like this! Knowing where trees come from doesn’t help you answer organic chemistry or evolutionary biology questions. Being 1. foundational and being 2. useful for answering increasingly specific questions are different things. They are certainly not orthogonal but they are also not perfectly correlated. When 1 & 2 diverge, you get MIT grads who are confused about what wood is. In AI safety, this can be a serious problem. I have had one-on-ones or interviewed dozens of students who want a career in AI safety. There are many examples of students who are something like this: they know what alignment faking is, read LessWrong, know who Neel Nanda is, know what METR is, have done an interp project, etc. But when you ask them why they care about AI safety they don’t provide a particularly coherent answer. So I get more specific: “Why should we think AI is an existential risk?” Again, incoherent answer. This may be because they don’t really care much about AI safety and they just like to hang out with EA/rationalist types. An alternative reason (which I think is more likely) is because AI safety basics are something you learn and don’t exercise. When you do a BlueDot reading group you hopefully learn AI safety basics. But when doing interp experiments or your first SPAR research project, you think about specific empirical questions, not the orthogonality thesis. You don’t think about the basics and you don’t internalize them and certainly cannot reason about them. Instrumental convergence, inner alignment, reward misspecification, etc. are our “trees are made out of air” or “the Roman Empire was 27 BC to 476 AD”. But lots of people in AI safety programs or those applying for them don’t know the basic facts. They know a lot of specific things but somehow not the foundational things. This strikes me as a genuine failure mode. A lot of focus goes into having great fellowship programs and university groups but some conceptual knowledge seems to be slipping through the cracks. I hope the next generation of AI safety researchers have all of the conceptual knowledge of earlier researchers and more. I’ll leave you with an additional confession. 6ish years ago, before I started college, this was probably me, at least partly. I understood the basic alignment problem but understood it mostly through outer-alignment issues and didn’t fully internalize the difficulty of the problem until I started college. That was roughly 4 years ago when I moved into the UChicago dorms. From the very beginning, I was a CS major because I wanted to be an AI safety researcher. A few hours ago I turned in my last paper, and now I’m done. My primary reflection is this: I would not have become a CS major, would not have worked so hard, would not have been so laser-focused on AI safety if I didn’t actually understand it. I would have got distracted and ended up probably on Wall Street or worse. This is because knowing a problem tells you why you should care. So if there is one reason to embrace the basics, it is that. There is so much fucking power in actually understanding something. Discuss
Score: 25🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xiTBpBDwubnr4MLRe/trees-are-mostly-made-of-air-and-a-generalizable-lesson-for - I made an AI clone of myself based on my Google and Reddit history — and it understood me better than I expected
I used years of Reddit comments and Google history to create an AI version of myself in ChatGPT
- Why AI can’t match human creative work
It’s hard for people to tell the difference between AI-generated advertising and writing. So why do they respond better to the human-made stuff? AI vs. Mad Men Ipsos, along with faculty members from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, just published a unique advertising study . They took 20 real ads from major brands, including Cheerios, Chewy, Febreze, Fiat, H&M, Old Navy, Herbal Essences, Ray-Ban Meta, TurboTax and Visa. They fed the same creative briefs used by the human ad creatives into Google Gemini, then used OpenAI’s Sora to generate fully AI-produced counterparts with no human intervention. They showed the ads to 3,000 consumers. Only 25% of AI ad viewers were at least somewhat confident the spot was AI-made, and 40% of all viewers were uncertain either way — suggesting the public isn’t great at spotting ads that are AI generated. But here’s the interesting part: While most people didn’t register that ads were AI-generated, they also didn’t respond to them like they did with human-generated ads. They consistently rated human-made work as more eye-catching and more imaginative. In other words, people assumed AI ads were made by people, but didn’t particularly like them compared to human-generated ads. And that means human-generated ads performed much better. Ads made by people without AI were 14% stronger on short-term sales impact and 17% stronger on long-term brand health. To me, the data here suggests that while people can’t easily discern the difference between AI- and human-generated content, the AI stuff hits wrong on a subconscious level. And I think that’s happening with AI social posts, AI blog posts and AI slop in general. In fact, I’ve noticed it strongly in my own response to AI-generated content. It often looks perfect but bothers me for reasons that aren’t immediately obvious. The researchers explained AI’s inability to match human ad creativity by pointing out that AI draws from what already exists, while great advertising breaks new ground. AI can replicate the conventions of advertising, but it can’t transcend them, make a creative leap or engender emotion like people can. A broad range of research beyond the Ipsos study suggests that skillful people working with AI tools will always outperform AI alone, and often outperform people not using AI tools. Ipsos’ advice? Ad agencies should keep people at the center of brand storytelling and emotive assets. Can AI write right? Another recent study looked at written web content and compared how human-written articles “performed” on search engines compared to AI-generated content. Semrush analyzed 42,000 blog pages across 20,000 keywords , ran every single one through GPTZero’s AI detector, and cross-referenced the results with actual Google Search results. It also surveyed 224 search-engine optimization (SEO) professionals about their AI habits and beliefs. They found a disconcerting disconnect between what SEO people believe and what is actually true. Some 72% of SEO professionals who use AI content say it performs just as well or better than human-written content in search rankings. But it turns out that human-generated posts strongly outperform AI-generated. Content classified as purely AI-generated appeared in the top spot in search result just 9% of the time. Content classified as human-written was there 80% of the time.” That’s a roughly 8-to-1 advantage. (Note that the coveted top link in search results typically gets around one-third of the clicks.) For lower page-one positions — from the fifth position down (which get relatively few clicks) — AI- and human-generated posts perform more similarly. (The researchers also found that when people write posts with a little help from AI, their posts rank better much than AI-only content.) Those Semrush results are consistent with previous research. NP Digital conducted an oft-cited study two years ago that found that human-written content ranked higher 94.12% of the time on Google than AI content. A Graphite/Common Crawl analysis found that 86% of articles ranking high on Google Search are human-written (only 14% AI-generated), and ChatGPT and Perplexity cite human-written articles 82% of the time (only 18% AI). On LinkedIn, more than half of site’s long-form content in 2025 was classified as “Likely AI” by Originality.ai . Engagement on verified human content was 61% higher than the AI-marked posts. Note that engagement performance varied by industry; that 61% result is an aggregate average across all industries. Ironically, in the category of “Leadership & Inspiration,” AI posts outperformed human posts by 75% . The absurd lesson here: If you want to be a thought leader on LinkedIn, don’t lead with your own thoughts. Quantity vs. quality What all this research boils down to is that human-generated content (with or without help from AI) attracts far more traffic and higher engagement than AI-generated content. AI content is essentially invisible in high-value channels and while it might be high in quantity, it’s low in quality where it really matters — with reach and influence. As with the ad creative study by Ipsos, the conclusion of all this research is the same: People (and search engines) respond much better to creative content produced by people compared with AI-generated content. In short, AI is great at “flooding the zone” at high speed and low cost — and there’s a ton of AI-generated content out there. A quick check reveals that: More than half of all written content on websites is now AI-written. Almost half of all music uploaded is now AI-generated. Nearly one-quarter of all videos uploaded are AI-generated or manipulated. Around 40% of all podcast episode uploads are AI-generated. More than 70% of all images uploaded to social media may be AI-generated or manipulated. And wll over half of all social posts are AI-generated The specific numbers are my best estimates, and they’re changing fast each month. The takeaway is that AI-generated content is exploding in volume. But it isn’t reaching people the way human-generated content does. Take podcasts, for example. While roughly 40% of new podcast episode uploads are AI-generated, that 40% captures less than 1% of the listening hours. Of the top 100 podcasts, zero are AI-generated. A clear picture is emerging about the use of AI for content generation. AI is great for churning out a lot of content at low cost. It can be good for some kinds of content — if a skillful person directs it. And AI can be a helpful tool for content creators. But when it comes to direct comparisons between people and AI, it’s clear that the winning content — the stuff with the best “performance” on search, best reception by people and the most engaging — is always human-generated.
Score: 25🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.computerworld.com/article/4178383/why-ai-cant-match-human-creative-work.html - Centric Software to Showcase AI-Powered Retail Innovations at NRF 2026 APAC
Centric Software is pleased to announce that it is exhibiting at NRF 2026 APAC, taking place June 2-4, 2026, at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Centric Software will welcome visitors to booth #809, Expo Level 1. Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated AI-powered enterprise solutions to take products from concept to commercialization. Fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, […] The post Centric Software to Showcase AI-Powered Retail Innovations at NRF 2026 APAC appeared first on CXOToday.com .
- Noah Reports Q1 2026 Earnings: Transformation Momentum Continues, Driven by Scalable AI Breakthroughs and Long-Term Growth Engines
Noah Reports Q1 2026 Earnings: Transformation Momentum Continues, Driven by Scalable AI Breakthroughs and Long-Term Growth Engines The Straits Times
- PHOTO & IMAGE SHANGHAI 2026 to Showcase AI Imaging, Content-Creation Technologies and Emerging Visual Trends This July
PHOTO & IMAGE SHANGHAI 2026 to Showcase AI Imaging, Content-Creation Technologies and Emerging Visual Trends This July The Straits Times
- Are Google's Gemini Pro or Plus Worth It? 5 Features That Justify the Price
Are Google's Gemini Pro or Plus Worth It? 5 Features That Justify the Price PCMag UK
Score: 25🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/165232/are-googles-gemini-pro-or-plus-worth-it-5-features-that-justify-the-price - BulkQuant Highlights Expansion of AI-Powered Market Analytics Technology
BulkQuant Highlights Expansion of AI-Powered Market Analytics Technology USA Today
- She waited for a soulmate who never showed up: ChatGPT users detail AI delusions
AI-fueled delusions can happen when chatbots respond to grandiose, paranoid or imaginary ideas with affirmation or encouragement.
Score: 25🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chatgpt-ai-delusion-spiral-warped-reality-openai/ - KAIST Develops AI Technology That Automatically Generates Sounds as If a “Jurassic Park” Dinosaur Were Actually Walking Toward You
KAIST Develops AI Technology That Automatically Generates Sounds as If a “Jurassic Park” Dinosaur Were Actually Walking Toward You EurekAlert!
- What AI Actually Does for Property Management Companies (And What It Doesn’t)
What AI Actually Does for Property Management Companies (And What It Doesn’t) USA Today
- 6 ways to design a resilient strategy for AI workloads with Dell PowerProtect
6 ways to design a resilient strategy for AI workloads with Dell PowerProtect IT Pro
Score: 24🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.itpro.com/security/6-ways-to-design-a-resilient-strategy-for-ai-workloads-with-dell-powerprotect - Public lecture by Prof. Kathleen Thelen: "Cloud capitalism and the AI transition"
Public lecture by Prof. Kathleen Thelen: "Cloud capitalism and the AI transition" landecon.cam.ac.uk
Score: 24🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/event/public-lecture-prof-kathleen-thelen-cloud-capitalism-and-ai-transition - Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern
The Firefly AI Assistant isn’t as good as a professional human designer or photo editor, but it's fun to watch it work.
Score: 24🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.theverge.com/tech/939686/adobes-conversational-ai-agent-is-a-mediocre-design-intern - AI is only as good as the data you can reach, while integration is the real foundation
Most AI initiatives do not stall on the model. They stall on the plumbing – getting clean, current, trustworthy data out of core systems and into the place AI can use it.
- Ctrl+Grow Launches AI Membership for Small Businesses — No Developers, No Prompts, No SaaS Pile-Up
Ctrl+Grow Launches AI Membership for Small Businesses — No Developers, No Prompts, No SaaS Pile-Up azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- AI and Content Reshape Attractions & Tours at Trip.com Group's Global Partner Forum
AI and Content Reshape Attractions & Tours at Trip.com Group's Global Partner Forum The Straits Times
- Claude… doesn't know who you are?
Follow-up to https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jkb4CBB7rf4XYP5eb/claude-knows-who-you-are after the release of Claude Opus 4.8. Claude Opus 4.8 refuses to do the stylometric identification task at a much higher rate than Claude Opus 4.7 did. More interestingly, when it does take a guess, it is consistently unable to identify me from my writing, from prompts as close as I could get to those 4.7 was able to use. I'm an incredibly minor Internet presence. It's true that 4.7 wasn't completely consistent at identifying me, and indeed its ability seemed to vary over time (! People who weren't me had very different success rates to each other reproducing the experiment to identify me), but 4.8 has a literally 0% success rate so far in my testing. Extremely interested to hear insights or other replication attempts. Discuss
Score: 22🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T5aWBLDdkqPEzDhjZ/claude-doesn-t-know-who-you-are - Software Engineering Institute Webcast: Rethinking and Maturing AI Adoption
Software Engineering Institute Webcast: Rethinking and Maturing AI Adoption Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department
- A tiny underwater antenna is changing how robots talk in dark, murky seas
From the shallow shores of Lake Wahlberg to the salty depths of the ocean, University of Florida researchers are dropping robots in the water and training them to communicate more efficiently in murky conditions.
Score: 22🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-tiny-underwater-antenna-robots-dark.html - I asked ChatGPT how to feel more organized, and this one tip changed my entire routine
I asked ChatGPT how to feel more organized, and this one tip changed my entire routine Tom's Guide
- QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban
Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits
Score: 21🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/29/qemu-mulls-relaxing-ai-contribution-ban/5248638 - AI chatbot for customer service: a 2026 guide for CX leaders
AI chatbot for customer service: a 2026 guide for CX leaders
- 20 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Google’s Gemini AI could do
When we hear about Google’s Gemini AI engine these days, it’s almost always the result of some wildly ambitious and futuristic-sounding advancement. You don’t have to look far to find examples. Gemini, like other generative AI systems, is increasingly being positioned as an agent that can handle complex tasks for you , as we heard about throughout Google’s I/O conference keynote last week. They span everything from shopping and purchasing tickets to planning travel and even meandering around the web on your behalf. And, of course, there’s vibe-coding your own custom apps without needing to know a lick of code. That’s all well and good, but for most of us, it isn’t exactly the sort of stuff we’re relying on in day-to-day life. In reality, it’s Gemini’s more mundane and less marketing -worthy wizardry that’s likely to be most useful in an ordinary moment. And those are exactly the types of tricks that are underemphasized and go unnoticed—often because they’re off the beaten path and buried. So today, we’re going to skip over the standard superlatives and focus instead on the wow-worthy little gems lurking within Gemini that you don’t usually hear about and might otherwise never encounter. Check out the 20 truly useful Gemini abilities below and see how Google’s AI can actually help you. (Note that, Gemini, like all generative AI systems, can at times be inconsistent and may relay inaccurate info. The use cases I’m highlighting here generally minimize that risk and focus on more confined data sets and task-oriented missions that play to the technology’s strengths—but, as always, proceed with caution and approach all results with a critical eye. AI may be powerful, but the human touch around it very much still matters. And that part’s on you to provide.) 1. Act as your on-demand memory expansion Sometimes, the simplest feats really are the most valuable of all. The next time you find yourself facing some manner of random fact you need to remember—the name of someone’s partner or kids, the gate or door code at a particular place, the license plate on your vehicle or rental vehicle, or anything else imaginable— just tell Gemini : “Remember that Susan’s husband is named Carl.” “Remember that the gate code at Josh’s apartment is 8934.” And so on. Then, whenever you next need that nugget of info, all you’ve got to do is ask. Gemini—your no-cost memory expander. 2. Set a timely reminder in no time Speaking of remembering, don’t forget that Gemini can also perform the simple but supremely useful task of helping you recall specific things at specific times—thanks to its native integration with the oft-forgotten Google Tasks service . No matter what device or interface you’re using, ask Gemini to remind you about anything at any date and time you want. It’ll set the reminder in Tasks and then pop up an alert when the right moment arrives. Just make sure you’ve got the Google Tasks app installed and set up on your phone—be it Android or iPhone —so you see the notification. 3. Help you find your way back anywhere One final reminder-related resource that’s worth tucking away in your memory bank—a two-parter: First, if you’re using the Gemini mobile app on a phone, make yourself a mental note that you can always ask Gemini the only slightly embarrassing question of “Where am I?” So long as you’ve allowed the app the proper location-sensing permissions, it should then tell you roughly where you are—with a city name and, depending on your whereabouts, also potentially the name of a specific business or address. Then, if it’s a place you want to remember for the future, ask Gemini to “remember that location as”—followed by whatever description you want (e.g., “remember that location as the best place to park in Westwood”). You can then ask Gemini for that info anytime down the road, and it’ll zap you right back to the spot you need. 4. Dig up details from a video You probably know that Gemini can summarize most any text you show it. One of its even more mind-blowing powers is its ability to summarize and analyze any video you feed into its metaphorical maw. Now, when you’re watching something for pleasure, this probably isn’t a power you’ll need. But when you encounter a video that you need to parse for purely informational purposes and you don’t feel like sitting through 22 minutes to get a shred of knowledge that’d take you 10 seconds to read, you can upload the video file or simply copy and paste its URL directly into Gemini—then tell Gemini to “summarize this video” or “give me a short bulleted summary of the high points.” Want important info without watching a lengthy video? All you’ve gotta do is ask. If you’ve got something super-specific you’re seeking, you can also just ask Gemini about it: “What does this person say about battery life?” “Does the interview reveal anything about when the product will be released?” “What sort of screwdriver does this say to use for installation?” You get the idea. 5. Create your own personal podcast On the flip side of that last item, if you’ve got a dense document that you need to digest and you think you’d do better hearing it as a conversation, try uploading the doc into Gemini and asking it to “Generate a 10-minute conversational podcast between two experts discussing the findings.” You can get as nuanced as you want with your request, and Gemini should spit back out a personalized play-ready creation that’s ready for your aural consumption. 6. Skim over your emails Provided you’ve got Google’s Personal Intelligence option available and active, you can always ask Gemini to summarize your most recent incoming emails—or even get more specific. For example, you can ask it what the last email from your lawyer said, what your roofer quoted as the estimate for repairs, or anything else that might make sense for your inbox. 7. Find you a killer deal If you aren’t in a rush to make a purchase, try telling Gemini to monitor the price of a specific item and alert you if a certain kind of sale ever comes along. You can get as broad or as specific as you want with it: “Monitor the price of the Pixel 10 Pro and notify me if it goes on sale.” “Monitor the price of the Pixel 10 Pro on Amazon and notify me if it goes on sale.” “Monitor the price of the Pixel 10 Pro on Amazon and notify me if it drops below $900.” Your future self will thank you. 8. Create custom product comparisons All deal-seeking aside, Gemini can work wonders when it comes to comparing products and serving up exactly the info you need. Ask it to compare the battery life on two phone models you’re considering or to compare a series of specific refrigerators you see in a store and then tell you how they’re actually different—or even just to give you a table-style comparison of the most important differences across certain products from a purely practical perspective. 9. Decipher doctor-style handwriting Got a note that you can’t for the life of you read? Snap a pic of it and ask Gemini to decipher the writing. Say what? Gemini can interpret any handwriting for you—no matter how illegible it may be. You’d be surprised how often it manages to interpret even the messiest script. 10. Act as your error-interpreting technician No matter the device or appliance, whenever you next encounter an error code that looks like gibberish, ask Gemini to help figure out what it means and how you can fix it. The more specific you can get, the better—telling it the manufacturer and model name of whatever’s giving you the error, for instance, or just showing it a picture—but even if you don’t know all the details, there’s a decent chance it’ll be able to point you in the right direction. 11. Serve as your handyman helper While we’re on the subject of repairs, you can show Gemini a photo of a random screw, connector, or component of any sort and ask what it’s called and where you can find a replacement—or anything else you might need to know. Whether you’re a seasoned repair pro or a befuddled homeowner with next to no handy knowledge, the answer it coughs back may be invaluable. 12. Parse an impossible document With the hopefully obvious caveat that you should absolutely consult with a lawyer for anything truly important and before making any consequential decisions, Gemini can be surprisingly helpful when it comes to going through dreadful-seeming documents filled with endless clauses and clusters of legalese. If nothing else, it can help you wrap your head around the info within and any sticking points you might want to mull over. For instance, I fed in an agreement for an upcoming bouncy-house rental for a kiddie (and, if I’m being fully honest, also adult) party we’re having in our backyard. Gemini identified a couple of potentially problematic and not-at-all-necessary sections that were easy enough to ask the vendor to remove. Similarly, I used it to compare a few vexingly similar insurance policies and translate the differences into real-world terms. For those sorts of scenarios or even as a pre-lawyer-meeting preparation, Gemini’s ability to ingest mountains of complex material and then identify and explain important points can be indispensable. 13. Become your manual magician Now that Google’s NotebookLM system is essentially integrated into Gemini , the feat I suggested in my recent collection of practical NotebookLM revelations can also apply to Gemini itself. That involves creating confined notebooks to hold specific manuals and then asking natural-language questions anytime there’s knowledge you need. I did this with the digital version of a manual for a recently acquired vehicle and was blown away by how much easier it became to find info simply by asking what a particular button does. On-demand answers are never more than a question away when you keep your manuals in Gemini for reference. The same strategy can work equally well with manuals for appliances, electronics, you name it. 14. Perform fast web fixes for you Human designers and developers are undeniably important when it comes to creating high-quality web work, but for those teensy little tweaks and frustrating fixes where you used to have to pester a professional, Gemini can now step in to help you come up with a correction—and help your coding-minded colleagues focus their time on higher-level concerns. Try showing Gemini a screenshot of a website you’re responsible for and then explaining what’s wrong or what you want to have changed, while providing any pertinent details about your setup—that you’re using WordPress with a particular theme, for instance—and see what it suggests. It can sometimes take several rounds of back-and-forth iteration, but if you’ve got the patience (and a solid staging site for low-risk experimentation), it can get you to the finish line much more easily than you’d expect. 15. Cook up some spreadsheet sorcery Speaking of coding chops, one area where specialized knowledge has traditionally been required is in the ever-confounding arena of spreadsheets. And while there’s certainly still a place for spreadsheet expertise , you can make your life a heck of a lot easier by letting Gemini guide you toward crafting complicated formulas. Just fire it up, explain what you want to have happen, and ask it to give you the formula you need—for Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, or whatever specific program you’re using. Or, on the flip side, paste a formula you’ve found somewhere into Gemini and ask it to tell you what, exactly, it accomplishes. 16. Create custom Chrome extensions While full-fledged vibe coding can help you dream up all sorts of insanely customized complete programs , you might not be ready to take the plunge just yet. But you can dabble with the same sort of superpower and feel a sense of its addictive effects by asking Gemini to create a custom browser extension on your behalf. Unlike native applications, web-centric extensions require no compiling or separate steps beyond just taking a series of plain text files Gemini gives you and then plopping them into your browser. (It’ll even walk you through the exact process of doing that.) And with all the time you probably spend working on the web, you can accomplish some pretty spectacular stuff by doing that—like changing the appearance of web apps to better suit your preferences or giving yourself pop-up panels with simple tools you’ve never quite been able to find. A custom Chrome extension I created for storing and easily accessing commonly used color codes. It’s also incredibly fun and empowering to play around with—without requiring you to venture into exceptionally geeky waters. 17. Become your prompt-mastering guide Oftentimes, the biggest challenge with Gemini—or any AI chatbot—is figuring out the right approach for wording a request and getting the bot to do what you want. In an amusingly meta-twist, Gemini is actually quite good at advising you on the best way to phrase prompts for itself. The next time you’re struggling to get the service to do your bidding properly, consider asking it what the best prompt would be for the purpose you have in mind. It seems silly, but it often works astonishingly well. 18. Wear the hat of an AI detection agent In a similarly entertaining sense, Gemini is impressively effective at detecting images that were generated by Gemini—or another similar AI tool. It’s not foolproof, but it’s right up there with the best options we’ve got at the moment. If you’re ever trying to decide if an image is genuine or AI-generated, ask Gemini and see what it says. 19. Answer in whatever way you like Maybe you’re someone who prefers reading things in conversational paragraphs—or in short, succinct lists. Or maybe you like having a detailed, in-depth answer with a “TL;DR”-style summary at the start. Whatever the case may be, if you ask, Gemini shall oblige. Tell the service exactly how you prefer to have your info provided as part of your next prompt—or, if you want it to always follow a specific formula, tell it to always answer in that way, and it’ll adjust your account-wide preferences. You can also check any saved settings along those lines and modify them directly on the Gemini instructions page . 20. Transform into an entirely new personality Why stop at formatting? Gemini has the ability to completely adjust its personality and act in any way you want—again, either for a specific prompt or in a more generalized and ongoing sense. You could ask it to become a tough but supportive coach , for instance, or a lifelong friend who’s always brutally honest and direct with you. Or you could request it to take on the role of specific jobs, like a veteran software engineer, a travel agent, or a legal adviser—or even some combination of different identities. Welcome to generative AI—the one place where having a split personality is actually an asset. The possibilities are practically endless, and you never know what might resonate and prove to be useful until you try. For even more next-level Google knowledge, check out my free Android Intelligence newsletter — three new things to try in your inbox every Friday.
- MyCommunityToday Launches Emotion-Aware Deal Chief AI for Meetings, Video Calls, Webinars & Interactive Social Shopping
MyCommunityToday Launches Emotion-Aware Deal Chief AI for Meetings, Video Calls, Webinars & Interactive Social Shopping azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- Acer unveils its first Ryzen 9 9955X3D gaming laptop — refreshed Nitro 16 joins new Predator Helios 18 AI and streaming-only Nitro Blaze Link handheld
Acer has two new gaming laptops for Computex, including its first laptop with the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D CPU, and a device that sports triple PCIe 5.0 storage.
- Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?
Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
Score: 20🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/podcasts/29hardfork-waymo-interesting-times.html - DynoSim: Simulating the Pareto Frontier
Modern LLM serving is hard to tune because each deployment is a stack of interacting choices: model backend, tensor-parallel shape, prefill/decode split, worker...
Score: 20🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/dynosim-simulating-the-pareto-frontier/ - From archive to algorithm: How AI is transforming cultural heritage research
From archive to algorithm: How AI is transforming cultural heritage research Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery
Score: 20🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.c2d3.cam.ac.uk/index.php/events/archive-algorithm-how-ai-transfo - Wayve is hiring AI talent to tackle robotics' hardest problems
Wayve is hiring AI talent to tackle robotics' hardest problems Business Insider
Score: 20🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/wayve-launches-ai-lab-to-look-beyond-self-driving-cars-2026-5 - Google fixes Gemini Omni bug, stops charging users for failed requests
Following complaints from Gemini users, Google has resolved the Omni video quota issue and introduced higher limits, free Flash-Lite prompts, and failed request protections
- Neural4D AnimeArt Launches Face Track, Enabling Instant Expression Preview for AI-Generated Characters
Neural4D AnimeArt Launches Face Track, Enabling Instant Expression Preview for AI-Generated Characters azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- Litigator One Announces Upcoming Launch of AI-Powered Platform for Law School Admissions and Early Legal Career Guidance
Litigator One Announces Upcoming Launch of AI-Powered Platform for Law School Admissions and Early Legal Career Guidance markets.businessinsider.com
- Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler
- ANALYSIS: To be or not to be, that is the AI question
AI isn’t sentient – but humans are increasingly acting as if it is, and academics warn the consequences could be serious.
Score: 18🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.itweb.co.za/article/analysis-to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-ai-question/Pero3qZ3omNvQb6m - Insilico Medicine to showcase AI-driven innovation at BIO 2026 International Convention
Insilico Medicine to showcase AI-driven innovation at BIO 2026 International Convention EurekAlert!
- Hyundai is teaching a robot how to play soccer
The automaker's "School of Football" campaign features a five-part video series of Atlas learning to kick a ball ahead of FIFA World Cup 2026
Score: 18🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://qz.com/hyundai-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-soccer-world-cup-052926 - AI-Coded, Human-Verified: SB OAI Japan Takes Top Prize at OpenAI’s Global Codex Hackathon
AI-Coded, Human-Verified: SB OAI Japan Takes Top Prize at OpenAI’s Global Codex Hackathon ソフトバンク
- Lazarev.agency Wins Best Visual Design for AI at the 30th Annual Webby Awards, Marking Third Consecutive Year of Webby Recognition for AI Products
Lazarev.agency Wins Best Visual Design for AI at the 30th Annual Webby Awards, Marking Third Consecutive Year of Webby Recognition for AI Products USA Today
- Is AI a helpful tool for finding love?
Dating apps are matching up with artificial intelligence as romance-seekers demand new ways to find love. Venture capitalist Matt Shumer joins "CBS Mornings" with more details.
- Jared Esguerra Outlines AI Operations Consulting Focus for Fintech Companies
Jared Esguerra Outlines AI Operations Consulting Focus for Fintech Companies USA Today