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Thu, May 15 - Google's Gemini Powers New AI Applications Across Platforms

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Hak

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Thu, May 15 - Google's Gemini Powers New AI Applications Across Platforms

It's Thursday, May 15, 2025, and you're reading the Agentive Daily Report.

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Google teases its "Gemini Everywhere" vision at I/O 2025, positioning Gemini as the backbone of everything from Android Auto to search and developer agents.
OpenAI launches HealthBench, a rigorous open benchmark for evaluating LLMs in clinical healthcare use, and deepens enterprise tech integrations.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE emerge as pivotal global AI hubs through major investments from Nvidia, AWS, and OpenAI, reshaping the geopolitical data center race.
Sakana AI's "Continuous Thought Machine" mimics human brainwaves, introducing neural timing for more flexible, brain-like AI reasoning.
Apple's partnership with Synchron aims to standardize brain-computer interfaces, enabling hands-free device control for users with severe disabilities.
TikTok launches AI Alive, animating static photos into dynamic videos, as generative media rapidly infiltrates mainstream social platforms.

Today's Top Stories

Google I/O Makes Gemini the Center of Everything

Google's messaging ahead of I/O 2025 leaves no room for ambiguity: Gemini is about to be omnipresent. We're not just talking phones or search—the plan is Gemini in cars (Android Auto), on smartwatches, in XR, and baked into developer tools for hands-free coding. Google is launching an AI mode for search and rolling out both productivity and commercial layer innovations, such as "Pinterest with AI" and agents for bug detection. The stakes are high: by repositioning Gemini not just as a product, but as a core OS-grade layer, Google is making its deepest play yet to defend search, ads, and developer stickiness in an era of AI-native disruptors. The landscape gets even more interesting as Google's competitors are rapidly making similar moves.

OpenAI Raises the Bar in Healthcare AI and Business Integrations

OpenAI just threw down with HealthBench—a new, open benchmark built with physicians to rigorously test LLMs on real clinical multi-turn cases. This isn't marketing flash: 48,000 expert-written criteria, transparent scoring, and surprising tradeoffs (GPT-4.1 nano vs. GPT-4o). On top, they're upgrading enterprise features: PDF exports, SharePoint integration, and signals that their models are starting to generate truly new research insights, not just summarize what's there. It's clear that OpenAI's strategy is to be infrastructure, not just interface, for regulated, mission-critical domains.

Mideast AI Arms Race: Nvidia, AWS, and OpenAI Redraw Data Center Map

The Middle East is fast-tracking its underground rise as a global AI infrastructure node. Saudi Arabia's $10B+ push (via Humain and Blackwell GPUs), UAE's impending data center deals, and regulatory easing on chip exports mean Nvidia, AWS, and OpenAI are investing hard and early. For AI developers, this could mean better hardware access (and perhaps softer rules), but it may also entrench new regional power centers. Long-term, we're witnessing a fundamental recalibration of the global compute supply chain.

Fast Forward

  • Continuous Thought Machine: Sakana AI’s new architecture lets AI “decide” how long to think, achieving more human-like reasoning and challenging the transformer status quo.
  • AI Outdiagnosing Doctors: A ChatGPT-powered system now matches or surpasses neurologists in localizing seizure sources for epilepsy surgery, highlighting real clinical impact of LLMs trained on medical data.
  • TikTok AI Alive: TikTok rolls out a creative AI tool to animate photos into short video stories, as social giants accelerate the generative content arms race.
  • Apple’s Neural Control Project: Apple and Synchron set industry standards for neural interfaces, opening new channels for assistive tech and hands-free device interaction.
  • Autonomous Coding Hits the Mainstream: Google and Microsoft are prepping AI agent frameworks for software development, targeting everything from bug detection to code review and project management.
  • AI Coding UI Backlash: Critical analyses argue that today's chat-based assistants can't match the usability of more adaptive, personalized UIs—hinting at the next billion-dollar opportunity in interface design.

New Tools Discovered

  • AI Meeting Notes: Notion’s new tool creates perfect transcripts and action lists inside your meeting notes workflow.
  • Probo: Startup-focused compliance automation tool promises SOC2/ISO27001/HIPAA in days, not months.
  • CoLaunchly: Launch apps with zero guesswork, complete with personalized roadmaps and templates.
  • Asendia AI: AI job agent “Sarah” promises to find you your next position 10x faster by automating the search.
  • Ciro: ICP-focused contact finder that automatically tests millions of profiles and verifies contacts for outbound go-to-market.

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Hak from Agentive.Studio

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