Karpathy joins Anthropic, Google goes agentic

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Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to focus on LLM research and development, signaling continued investment in top talent by the AI safety-focused company as competition intensifies in the foundation model space.

Google

Google is launching AI-powered audio glasses this fall featuring Gemini integration for hands-free assistance, with display glasses to follow, marking a major push into ambient computing and wearable AI.

The Verge

Google I/O 2026 introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash and Pro AI models with enhanced speed and agentic capabilities, plus a new Gemini Omni model family for multimodal tasks. The company rolled out AI features across its products including Search, Gmail, YouTube, and Android, alongside a redesigned Gemini app interface.

WIRED

Google I/O 2026 showcased the company's aggressive push to embed agentic AI across all major services, announcing Gemini 3.5 models, AI video generation (Omni), personal AI agents (Spark), universal AI-powered shopping, and Android XR smart glasses launching this fall. The announcements reflect Google's strategy to keep users within its ecosystem while demonstrating practical AI applications beyond chatbots.

Google Blog

Google's I/O 2026 showcased its pivot to 'agentic AI' with Gemini 3.5 Flash (4x faster, half the cost of competitors) and Gemini Spark, a 24/7 personal agent handling autonomous tasks across products. The company's token processing has reached 3.2 quadrillion monthly as it invests $180-190 billion in infrastructure to power agents across Search, Docs, YouTube, and new platforms like Antigravity 2.0.