🍭 Chrome Goes AI Mode and Zuck Fumbles 👓

Good morning.

Reminder: AI is now in your browser, your fridge, and probably your dog.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Google enters the arena

• Meta’s big flop

• How To Create Decks People Actually View

• And Everything Else

Google
🌐 Chrome Finally Dropped In to The AI Browser Battle Royale

The Bite: Google just dropped Gemini straight into Chrome like it's tilted towers
(anybody? 👀)

On desktop in the U.S., you’ll start seeing a built-in Gemini panel that can summarize across tabs, pull context from whatever page you’re on, and even hook into YouTube, Maps, and Calendar without leaving the site.

There’s also a smarter search bar (omnibox) that lets you ask questions about the page itself.

A, perhaps more agentic, “AI Mode” is rolling out later this month.

Snacks:

• Who Gets It: U.S. desktop; mobile rolling out later this month.

• Tabs, But Together: Gemini can compare and summarize info across multiple tabs at once.

• Smarter Search Bar: Ask questions right in the 'omnibox'; get AI answers and follow-ups in a side panel.

• Gemini can surface YouTube timestamps or Maps/Calendar details right in Chrome.

• Scammy notifications now get flagged and permission pop-ups get toned down.

Why it Bites: Chrome was far from first, but it just entered the arena where everyone else was already fighting.

Perplexity’s Comet, Anthropic’s Claude extension, Dia from The Browser Company, Brave’s Leo, Opera’s Aria, etc... are all trying to be 'The AI Browser'.

Now Chrome’s here with billions of installs and the Google logo.

The browser battle royale just got a final boss.

Quick How-To:
Update Chrome → look for Gemini in the Chrome menu;
"AI Mode hits later this month.

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_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

📱 Samsung Rolls Out ‘One UI 8’ With AI and Security Upgrades

→ Galaxy S25 leads the update, with S24 and foldables getting it next month.

🏛️ California’s SB 53 Advances AI Safety Oversight

→ New bill would force big AI firms to file safety and incident reports.

🧪 Startups Build ‘Environments’ to Train AI Agents

→ VCs are backing companies creating virtual worlds for AI training.

🍎 iOS 26 Apps Tap Apple’s On-Device Models

→ Popular apps now use Apple’s local AI for offline features.

🤝 US–UK Sign Tech Deal as Trump Jokes About AI

→ New pact deepens AI and quantum ties, with Nvidia GPU pledges.

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📊 Gamma 3 — AI Slides & Docs
→ Turn rough ideas into polished decks and docs with smart layouts, instant outlines, and one-click redesigns.

🗣️ VoxDeck — Talk-To-Slides
→ Say what you want and get a finished deck with charts, structure, and presenter notes ready to share.

🎥 Luma Ray 3 — Real-Time Video Gen
→ Prompt or control vivid, dynamic shots that feel filmed—live, editable, and ready for social.

🎬 Video Agent by HeyGen — Hands-Off Production
→ Feed a brief, get a fully-edited video with voice, b-roll, and timing dialed in for your channel.

⚡ Real-Time Video by KreaAI — Prompt-As-You-Film
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Meta
👓 Zuck’s Demo Flops. CTO Says It Wasn’t the Wi-Fi

The Bite: Two live demos bombed at Meta Connect.

In the cooking segment, chef Jack Mancuso said “Hey Meta, start Live AI” and…
it didn’t work…

Later, a WhatsApp call on the Ray-Ban Display + Neural Band wouldn’t show up on the glasses at all.

Over the weekend, CTO Andrew Bosworth 
popped on Instagram to say it wasn’t the venue Wi-Fi:

The ‘Hey, Meta, start Live AI,’ phrase triggered Live AI on a bunch of glasses in the building, and Meta had routed them all to one dev server.

They basically DDoS’d themselves.

Snacks:

• (1) → Wake phrase activated all the glasses in the building.

• (2) → WhatsApp call fail - display went to sleep as the call came in.

• Onstage: Chef Jack Mancuso, Zuck, and CTO Andrew Bosworth.

• Reports confirm self-induced overload + rare call bug.

• It wasn’t actually the “brutal Wi-Fi”…

Why it bites: We joked last week;
“Google Glass walked, tripped and landed on its face…we’d love to be wrong this time.”

Consider this a familiar stumble.

Still: credit where it’s due.
Bosworth owned it in public, which in 2025’s media cycle actually humanizes the team (the same way Zuck’s recent glow-up has).

Ship the fix, keep the demos live, and maybe these glasses earn a second impression.