🧠 Google said “AI” for two hours straight

Google I/O 2026 just happened, and most of the conference was basically one long conversation about AI.

Still, there was a lot worth paying attention to:

📌 New Gemini models are already rolling out
📌 A video generator that understands real-world physics
📌 Google Search gets its biggest update in 25 years
📌 Smart glasses powered by Gemini are coming next year

You can watch the full two-hour keynote — or read our 15-minute breakdown instead:

☀️ https://durovscode.com/google-io-2026-announcements-gemini-spark-glasses

😄 Finally, a bot for that

Telegram has launched a bot → that lets users report intimate content, including AI-generated deepfakes, published without their consent.

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😏 Wall StreetGPT

OpenAI is preparing an IPO filing, and the documents could reportedly reach regulators as early as this week.

The company is aiming to go public by September 2026 at an $852 billion valuation.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-ipo-filing-september-2026

☕️ Ads found another place to live

Google has started placing ads → directly inside AI-generated search answers.

Sponsored recommendations from Gemini now appear inside AI Mode responses themselves.

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🤐 Repository not found

GitHub is reportedly facing a management crisis → after Microsoft absorbed the platform into its CoreAI division.

The company has since seen executive departures, repeated outages, security incidents, and growing criticism from developers.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Elon Musk officially confirmed that Starlink is developing an interplanetary internet network.

📌 Donald Trump accidentally invested up to $5 million in a sushi chain instead of an AI company.

📌 The Apple Watch has slowed down 11 years after launch, with users moving to screenless bands and rings from Whoop and Oura.

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🍏 So this is the iPhone 20

New renders of the rumored iPhone 20 have appeared online, showing Apple’s possible anniversary redesign with an almost bezel-free display.

More images:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-20-renders-design-rumors

😆 Privacy level: OnlyFans

Data tied to 340 million users buying and selling content on OnlyFans could reportedly be sold by a hacker for $76,000.

How it happened:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/onlyfans-340-million-users-database-sale

😆 EU found the wallet again

The European Commission is preparing a several-hundred-million-euro fine against Google following an antitrust investigation.

It could become the largest penalty ever issued under the Digital Markets Act.

How Google got here:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/eu-google-record-fine-digital-markets-act

🤩 Even the Pope is worried now

Pope Leo XIV has presented his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, dedicated to artificial intelligence and its impact on humanity.

What exactly worries the Vatican about AI:

📌 https://durovscode.com/pope-leo-xiv-ai-regulation-encyclical

😂 Finally

Nvidia has officially ended → support for its Control Panel after 20 years.

Now all graphics settings and driver tools will live inside a single Nvidia App instead of two separate programs with interfaces from another era.

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😄 YouTube started checking itself

YouTube will now automatically add AI labels to videos → when its systems detect realistic AI-generated content.

Previously, creators had to disclose this manually.

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😾 Meta joined the subscription era

Meta has launched paid Plus subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp starting at $3 per month.

How Meta Plus works — and what users actually get for the money:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/meta-plus-subscriptions-launch

🤐 People are googling less Google

DuckDuckGo installs jumped → after Google rolled out its AI-heavy search update.

In the U.S., downloads of the privacy-focused search app grew by as much as 30% over the past week.

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🤔 Durov on freedom

Telegram founder Pavel Durov spoke at the Oslo Freedom Forum about censorship, mass surveillance, VPN bans, age verification, and what he sees as growing pressure on personal freedoms around the world.

Durov also explained why attempts to block platforms often fail and why forcing teenagers onto VPNs can have unintended consequences.

The key takeaways from his speech:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/pavel-durov-oslo-freedom-forum-speech

😏 Back to Gram

Pavel Durov has confirmed that TON's native cryptocurrency will be renamed from Toncoin back to Gram, its original name from the early days of the project.

What happens next:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/ton-toncoin-renamed-gram

🤐 Not very GoPro of them

GoPro, the company that helped popularize action cameras, has warned → that it may not be able to continue operating over the next year.

The company is now exploring strategic options, including attracting investors, a sale, or a merger.

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❤️ Love in the blockchain era

TON Dating is offering free Premium subscriptions to Toncoin holders as part of the token's transition to Gram.

How many "grams" you need to hold to unlock free dating:

📌 https://durovscode.com/ton-users-free-premium-ton-dating