Google's AI Gemini will now automatically summarize long email threads for some users, the company said in a blog post. Previously, users had to tap "Summarize this email" for Gemini to generate key points. Now, if users have smart features in Gmail, Chat, Meet, and Workspace turned on, they'll automatically appear "where a summary will be helpful," like with long threads or exchanges with several replies. For now, this feature is only available in English. If you're using Gmail with an Admin, like a company or school, then the Admin can turn these smart settings on or off.

For his feature-length directorial debut Mountainhead, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong treads familiar territory. Like Succession, Mountainhead turns its gaze on the rich and powerful, this time satirizing tech moguls in the vein of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman. The film mimics Succession formally, too, boasting its documentary-style cinematography, as well as a thrumming score from Succession composer Nicholas Britell. And of course, it comes with its fair share of WTF-worthy turns of phrase. Well, now you won't be able to forget it.)

This week, DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 model on HuggingFace, reigniting the open-source versus closed-source competition. The updated version, called DeekSeek-R1-0528, has 685 billion parameters, an upgrade from January's version, which had 671 billion. Unlike OpenAI and Google's models, which are famously closed-source, DeepSeek's model weights are publicly available. According to the benchmarks, the R1-0528 update has improved reasoning and inference capabilities and is closing the gap with OpenAI's o3 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro. This is an example of a lightweight model that is less capable but also requires less computing power.

When you first think of AI, you probably think of a text-based chatbot like ChatGPT or Google's Gemini. But AI tools are getting a whole lot more versatile. These days, even basic AI chatbots offer a range of media creation tools, including AI image generators. Some of the best AI image generators have been around for some time now. In the early days, they were inconsistent, struggled with realism, and often failed to properly follow instructions.

At the Google I/O 2025 event on May 20, Google announced the release of Veo 3, a new AI video generation model that makes 8-second videos. Within hours of its release, AI artists and filmmakers were showing off shockingly realistic videos. You may have even seen some of these videos in your social media feeds and not realized they were artificially generated. To be blunt: We've never seen anything like Veo 3 before. And it's only going to get better.

If you had all the time in the world, what language would you learn? With a lifetime subscription to Babbel, you can take your time learning any of 14 different languages, and it's only 139.99 (reg. The beauty of a lifetime subscription is that it never expires, meaning you can study Spanish for your next trip, brush up on German for business, or finally learn Italian to impress your friends, all at your own pace. With Babbel's structured lessons, you'll find that learning new languages can be a continuous journey of personal growth and intellectual stimulation. Babbel's all-language subscription opens the door to meaningful conversations with people from different cultures.

Last week, Match Group (the conglomerate that owns Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and many others) announced it acquired the sapphic dating app HER. HER founder Robyn Exton posted on LinkedIn that, "I'm incredibly proud to say that Match Group sees the value in this incredible space we've built. Maybe even more importantly, they see the power and presence of the sapphic community." "We are not a niche. We are not an afterthought. We are a global audience with a voice, a culture, and a future. And now we have the backing to build for that future with more care, more depth, and even more ambition," Exton continued.

Remember those old school sports and actions movies -- think Billy Bob in Varsity Blues -- where they'd ask dazed people simple questions to see if they're concussed? How many fingers am I holding up? Or, what year is it? Well, even by that low, low standard, Google's AI overviews may not pass concussion protocol. This week, folks noticed that Google's AI overviews couldn't reliably discern that the year was, in fact, 2025. There were a number of posts about it online.

If you want a robot assistant to live in your home and act vaguely like a human, you might be in luck. Hugging Face, a company that largely specializes in machine learning but has branched out into robotics recently, has a new humanoid robot called HopeJr coming out potentially by the end of 2025. As you can see in a video posted to X, it has a pretty wide range of movement capabilities. Per TechCrunch, it is specifically capable of 66 independent movements. The caption on the video claims it is capable of walking and "manipulating many objects," though we don't get to see the bot walk in the video.

Tinder's incoming CEO wants to rid the app of its hookup app reputation, but the app is testing a pretty superficial preference: height. In recent days, users have started noticing a height "filter" in the app. Another dating app, Hinge, already had a height filter for premium users. Both Tinder and Hinge are owned by Match Group. Apparently, though, height is being tested as a paid preference, not a hard filter.