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Google has unveiled Gemini Spark, its most ambitious agentic AI product yet, and early reactions are a mix of genuine awe and unease. The system promises to handle complex, multi-step tasks like trip planning end to end, but as The Verge notes, impressive and terrifying often travel together when AI starts acting on your behalf.
On the money side, Google has quietly secured an eighty billion dollar capital raise, with ten billion coming from Berkshire Hathaway alone. That flood of institutional cash flowing toward AI is casting a long shadow over crypto markets, where Bitcoin continues sliding, with the February low of sixty thousand dollars now back within reach.
And over at Microsoft, the company is walking back what many in the security community read as a legal threat against a researcher who had been publishing unpatched Windows zero-day vulnerabilities. Redmond now says it has no intention of pursuing action against security researchers, a carefully worded olive branch that may or may not fully close the wound.
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