🔍 Google launches generative search interface

Google is rolling out a free generative search interface that builds custom visual tools and simulations tailored to each query. It analyzes the question, designs a response layout, fetches data, and generates interactive code on the fly.

The search creates small apps for every question, offering more than just text answers. Soon, multiple AI agents will be integrated to handle different tasks directly within search, starting with information agents.

These agents scan the entire web, including blogs, news, social media, and real-time data on finance, shopping, and sports. This aims to deliver constantly updated results specific to user queries.

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🤖 Claude Code prints token usage receipts

Developer Chris Hutchinson connected a thermal printer to Claude Code to print real receipts after each session. The receipts show token usage by model, input and output counts, total cost, and a QR code.

Claude Code is an AI platform where token consumption can add up quickly. The receipts use the SessionEnd hook and support Epson printers, HTML, or ASCII art in terminals.

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📊 Figma launches built-in design AI agent

Figma introduced its own AI agent that works directly inside the main app window, removing the need for third-party AI tools.

The agent quickly learns the current design system and navigates between frames. It can edit layouts, find references, or create alternative design versions.

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📱 Apple turns imperfect chips into a bestselling MacBook

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple uses A18 Pro chips with one disabled graphics core in the new MacBook Neo.

These are chips that did not fully meet the specifications for the iPhone 16 Pro, where Apple reserves the highest-performing versions.

Demand for the lower-cost MacBook was so strong that Apple reportedly ran out of these partially disabled chips and began using fully functional chips with one core intentionally turned off.

What looks like manufacturing waste can become a product category

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🛍️ Alibaba launches Qwen3.7-Max AI

Alibaba released Qwen3.7-Max, a free AI model outperforming Kimi-K2.6 and Claude Opus 4.6 in Max mode on all benchmarks.

It excels at coding and agent tasks, runs autonomously for tens of hours, and supports 1000+ tools with a 1 million token context window.

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Ⓜ️ Meta trains AI on employee actions amid layoffs

On April 30, Mark Zuckerberg told managers that training AI models on employee actions will sharply improve their capabilities. Meta uses data from computer sessions, code, mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes to teach AI agents.

Meta believes its employees’ higher intelligence offers better training data than external annotators. This approach is part of the Model Capability Initiative, reported by Reuters on April 21.

At the same time, Meta announced layoffs of 8,000 employees and reassigned 7,000 more to AI roles. The company is betting on AI trained from internal work to gain an edge.

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🔋 Google AI Studio can now generate Android apps from prompts

Google added native Android app generation to AI Studio. Users can describe an idea in plain language, and the system writes the app in Kotlin.

The generated app can be tested directly in a browser emulator and installed on a real Android device.

The gap between idea and APK keeps shrinking.

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📊 FigureAI’s Robot Nearly Beats Human in 10-Hour Sorting

FigureAI ran a 10-hour experiment where a robot competed against a human in sorting packages. The human took legally mandated breaks, while the robot worked nonstop and autonomously.

The task required quick reactions, fine motor skills, and some reasoning. The human sorted 12,924 packages, the robot 12,732, with an average speed difference of just 0.04 seconds.

The robot’s endurance nearly matched the human’s speed, but the human still won by a small margin. FigureAI’s creator said this was the last time a human would win.

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🤖 OpenAI taught Codex to work on a locked Mac from your phone

OpenAI updated Codex so users can now send tasks from a smartphone and have the agent execute them on a Mac even when the computer is locked and the screen is off.

The feature works through the new Computer Use plugin. Codex temporarily unlocks the system in the background, performs the task, and locks the Mac again. If someone touches the keyboard or mouse, the session immediately stops.

Until now, AI agents generally required an active desktop session to function.

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🔊 Vollebak launches jacket with 180 speakers

Vollebak’s jacket has 180 speakers facing inward to stimulate the brain and aid meditation on the move.

It aims to relieve anxiety through sound therapy using specific sounds and frequencies.

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📊 Orbit Robotics unveils four-armed space robot

Canadian company Orbit Robotics introduced HELIOS, a humanoid robot with four arms designed for microgravity environments. The extra arms help it move, stabilize, and perform tasks inside space stations without needing legs.

HELIOS uses a cable-driven actuator system with motors near its shoulders to reduce moving mass. It aims to cut down routine maintenance time, which currently takes astronauts about 35% of their work hours, including up to 50 hours unloading cargo ships.

By handling repetitive tasks like maintenance and cargo management, HELIOS could free astronauts to focus more on science and research aboard the station.

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