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Today's lead: Google AI Blog (gen) — How we built the Google I/O 2026 Save the Date experience

In this episode:

- Google AI Blog (gen): How we built the Google I/O 2026 Save the Date experience

- Google AI Blog (gen): Unleash Your Development Superpowers: Refining the Core Coding Experience

- Google AI Blog (gen): Introducing Finish Changes and Outlines, now available in Gemini Code Assist extensions on IntelliJ and VS Code

- Google AI Blog (gen): Plan mode is now available in Gemini CLI

- Google AI Blog (gen): Developer’s Guide to AI Agent Protocols

- Google AI Blog (gen): Build a smart financial assistant with LlamaParse and Gemini 3.1

- Google AI Blog (gen): Jump to play: Building with Gemini & MediaPipe

- Google AI Blog (gen): Closing the knowledge gap with agent skills

Question:

What's the one AI story today that you think most people are missing?

Sources (selection):

1. Google AI Blog (gen) — How we built the Google I/O 2026 Save the Date experience

https://developers.googleblog.com/how-we-built-the-google-io-2026-save-the-date-experience/

2. Google AI Blog (gen) — Unleash Your Development Superpowers: Refining the Core Coding Experience

https://developers.googleblog.com/unleash-your-development-superpowers-refining-the-core-coding-experience/

3. Google AI Blog (gen) — Introducing Finish Changes and Outlines, now available in Gemini Code Assist extensions on IntelliJ and VS Code

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-finish-changes-and-outlines-now-available-in-gemini-code-assist-extensions-on-intellij-and-vs-code/

4. Google AI Blog (gen) — Plan mode is now available in Gemini CLI

https://developers.googleblog.com/plan-mode-now-available-in-gemini-cli/

5. Google AI Blog (gen) — Developer’s Guide to AI Agent Protocols

https://developers.googleblog.com/developers-guide-to-ai-agent-protocols/

6. Google AI Blog (gen) — Build a smart financial assistant with LlamaParse and Gemini 3.1

https://developers.googleblog.com/build-a-smart-financial-assistant-with-llamaparse-and-gemini-31/

7. Google AI Blog (gen) — Jump to play: Building with Gemini & MediaPipe

https://developers.googleblog.com/jump-to-play-building-with-gemini-mediapipe/

8. Google AI Blog (gen) — Closing the knowledge gap with agent skills

https://developers.googleblog.com/closing-the-knowledge-gap-with-agent-skills/

9. Wired AI — Anthropic Supply-Chain-Risk Designation Halted by Judge

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-designation-injunction/

10. Hacker News AI (100+) — New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai

11. Wired AI — Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-reporters-using-ai-write-edit-stories/

12. Google AI — Watch James Manyika talk AI and creativity with LL COOL J.

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/ll-cool-j-dialogues/

13. Google AI — Transform your headphones into a live personal translator on iOS.

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/translate/live-translate-with-headphones/

14. Google DeepMind Blog — Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-3-1-flash-live-making-audio-ai-more-natural-and-reliable/

15. Google AI — Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/

16. Google AI — Search Live is expanding globally

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-live-global-expansion/

17. Hacker News AI (100+) — AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/26/ai-chatbot-users-lives-wrecked-by-delusion

18. MIT Tech Review — The Download: a battery pivot to AI, and rewriting math

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/26/1134697/the-download-battery-ai-pivot-new-ai-tool-math/

19. Wired AI — Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

https://www.wired.com/story/senators-demand-to-know-how-much-energy-data-centers-use/

20. Wired AI — ‘She’s Never Going to Age’: Porn Stars Are Embracing AI Clones to Stay Forever Young

https://www.wired.com/story/shes-never-going-to-age-porn-stars-are-embracing-ai-clones-to-stay-forever-young/

21. MIT Tech Review — The snow gods: How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/26/1134470/the-snow-gods-how-a-couple-of-ski-bums-built-the-internets-best-weather-app/

22. MIT Tech Review — Are high gas prices good news for EVs? It’s complicated.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/26/1134677/gas-prices-electric-vehicles/

23. arXiv cs.AI — PLDR-LLMs Reason At Self-Organized Criticality

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23539

24. arXiv cs.AI — Environment Maps: Structured Environmental Representations for Long-Horizon Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23610

25. arXiv cs.AI — Evaluating a Multi-Agent Voice-Enabled Smart Speaker for Care Homes: A Safety-Focused Framework

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23625

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