Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise | | | Good morning, AI enthusiasts. 2026 has been all about Google's product-centric AI push, putting Gemini in everything you use… and now, the company is bringing that strategy to the road. | With a new experience rolling out to Maps, the Sundar Pichai-led company is betting Gemini can make your trips easier, more immersive, and hopefully a lot more hands-free. | | In today's AI rundown: | Google launches Gemini-powered Maps Microsoft's step toward 'medical superintelligence' Automate Gmail with Google Workspace Studio AI agent hacks McKinsey's 'Lilli' chatbot in two hours 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
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| The Rundown: Google just dropped a major Gemini-powered upgrade for Maps, introducing two new features: Ask Maps, which lets you ask questions and get relevant answers to plan trips, and Immersive Navigation, which renders the route in 3D. | The details: | Ask Maps simplifies trip planning by letting you ask questions about the route/stops, with Gemini fetching from 300M+ places and reviews to answer. Immersive Navigation renders the route in 3D, using Gemini to analyze Street View and aerial imagery to show buildings, overpasses, crosswalks, and more. Other upgrades include more conversational voice guidance, Street View previews of destinations with parking info, and trade-offs for alternative routes. Maps is the latest Google product to get the Gemini touch, following Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Meet, Photos, and Android.
| Why it matters: As the race to build the best model continues, Google is showing the tech's value by putting it where it matters most — into people's daily lives. With Gemini now in Maps, Gmail, Docs, and Android, the company reaches billions without asking anyone to install anything new. That's turning out to be its true moat. |
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| The Rundown: Microsoft AI debuted Copilot Health, a new AI experience that uses your health records, wearable data, and medical history to give personalized insights — moving toward what CEO Mustafa Suleyman describes as "medical superintelligence." | The details: | Sitting as a secure space within Copilot, the new offering connects to 50+ wearables, EHR records from 50K+ U.S. hospitals, and Function lab results. The AI analyzes this data and gives personalized insights to help people make sense of their health and get the most out of their doctors' consultations. Microsoft says Copilot Health's advice is grounded in information from credible organizations such as Harvard Health, with answers linking back to the sources. The data connected to the platform is not used for training, and users retain the option to disconnect data sources and delete the linked data altogether.
| Why it matters: Microsoft is clear that it doesn't want to replace doctors — it wants to be the next best thing. The company hopes this work will eventually pave the way for "medical superintelligence," where AI has the knowledge of a general physician and the depth of a specialist, and remains accessible and affordable for billions worldwide. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to use Google Workspace Studio to automate your Gmail inbox. You will be able to set up agents that triage incoming messages, extract key information from invoices, and draft replies using Gemini. | Step-by-step: | Go to Workspace Studio, check out pre-made email boosters on the homepage, designed for things like daily email recaps and VIP notifications To build your own flow, click the plus button, select "When I get an email" as your starter, add an Add labels step, and toggle on AI-powered labels Select the categories you want Gemini to watch for (like "Receipts & Invoices"). Gemini will read each incoming email and label it automatically Hit "Turn on" and send yourself a test email. Check the Activity tab in Workspace Studio to see exactly what happened at each step
| Pro tip: You can add a "Check if" step for new receipt labels. Use Extract with Gemini to pull details, then Sheets → Add a row to log them. |
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| | MCKINSEY | |  | Image source: Reve / The Rundown |
| The Rundown: Security startup CodeWall revealed its AI agent broke into McKinsey's internal AI 'Lilli' in under two hours, gaining full read-write access to a database with confidential chat messages, client files, and user accounts — all in plain text. | The details: | As McKinsey's AI for chat, analysis, and search across 100K+ internal documents, Lilli is used by 70% of its staff, some 45K people, for client work. CodeWall's agent found exposed API docs with 22 endpoints that didn't need authentication. One had a basic security flaw that enabled database access. It included 46.5M messages discussing strategy, M&A deals, and client work, 728K files with client data, 57K user accounts, and 95 control prompts. McKinsey was informed about the flaw, following which it analyzed the situation with a third party (found no one else got access) and patched the vulnerability.
| Why it matters: The fact that this wasn't a four-person startup but McKinsey & Company shows even the best can miss the basics. If firms at this level are getting it wrong, every company rushing to ship AI internally for business-critical workflows needs to take a harder look at what they might be leaving wide open. |
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| | | xAI hired Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg — senior product engineers from Cursor — to accelerate Grok's coding capabilities, with both directly reporting to Elon Musk. | Meta reportedly delayed its next AI model, named Avocado, until at least May after it underperformed against frontier models in internal evaluations. | Perplexity expanded its "Computer" agentic system to Pro subscribers, enabling access with the option to add credits depending on usage needs. | Pentagon CTO Emil Michael said "there's no chance" of renewing talks with Anthropic, and that Claude would "pollute" the supply chain with "a different policy preference." | Dating app Bumble plans to introduce "Bee," a generative AI assistant that will privately learn user preferences and then suggest relevant matches based on them. | Axiom, the AI reasoning startup focused on formal mathematics and verified AI, announced a $200M Series A round at a $1.6B+ valuation, led by Menlo Ventures. |
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