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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. OpenAI News — STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company

https://openai.com/index/stadler

10. Wired AI — AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics

https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-ai-research-is-starting-to-split-along-geopolitical-lines/

11. Hacker News AI (100+) — I am leaving the AI party after one drink

https://lara-aigmueller.at/thoughts/leaving-the-ai-party/

12. Hacker News AI (100+) — AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

13. Wired AI — Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-50-year-anniversary-artificial-intelligence-iphone/

14. MIT Tech Review — The Download: the internet’s best weather app, and why people freeze their brains

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/27/1134755/the-download-best-weather-forecasting-app-why-people-freeze-brains/

15. Wired AI — The Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?

https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-ai-documentary-puts-ceos-in-the-hot-seat-but-goes-too-easy-on-them/

16. Wired AI — I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often

https://www.wired.com/story/i-asked-chatgpt-500-questions-here-are-the-ads-i-saw-most-often/

17. MIT Tech Review — Here’s why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after death

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/27/1134705/cryonics-store-bodies-brains-after-death/

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23539

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23610

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23625

21. arXiv cs.AI — Can LLM Agents Be CFOs? A Benchmark for Resource Allocation in Dynamic Enterprise Environments

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23638

22. arXiv cs.AI — GTO Wizard Benchmark

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23660

23. arXiv cs.AI — Grounding Vision and Language to 3D Masks for Long-Horizon Box Rearrangement

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23676

24. arXiv cs.AI — LLMs Do Not Grade Essays Like Humans

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23714

25. arXiv cs.AI — Efficient Benchmarking of AI Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23749

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