Yael Freiman

You might be wondering, we're saying, oh, this is the best chatbot.

It beat all of these benchmarks.

It crushed rivals.

How do they test chatbots?

Well, one

of these tests i think is very fascinating it's called the vending bench and it asks a model to simulate how to operate a vending machine so you got to track inventory place orders set prices you have to make money in this simulation of running a vending machine and apparently gemini 3 is just a vending machine beast and can make so much money operating vending machines they're very impressed with how gemini 3 can do this that's just one of the possible benchmarks where they say okay chat gbt run a vending machine gemini 3 run a vending machine

And apparently it crushes it.

qualitative as well as quantitative approach shows that gemini 3 is in a really good spot and you're right google is exceeding outside of the ai race to waymo just got a license to operate across across a vast swath of california previously had just been in the cities now it's got the entire bay area sacramento almost all of southern california up to the mexican border

It's not currently operating there, but if it wants to, it could drive you from North Los Angeles in the valley down all the way to Tijuana in the Mexican border.

So the red eye Waymo drives are about to come.

All right, everything's coming up Google.

Moving on, kvetching about high prices can bring anyone together.

Just ask President Trump and the next mayor of New York, Zoran Mamdani, who held a surprisingly chummy meeting on Friday as they touted plans to address the affordability crisis.

A beaming Trump, who's called Mamdani a communist, said he would be cheering Mamdani on as he takes charge of the largest American city, while Mamdani, who considers Trump a fascist, said their chat was productive.

In his Come From Nowhere campaign for mayor, Mamdani was like a thoroughbred with blinders on as he focused relentlessly on New Yorkers' high cost of living.

He returned to the topic again and again during his meeting with Trump, saying, We're the wealthiest city in the history of the world, and yet one in five can't afford $2.90 for a MetroCard.

Trump and other policymakers have seized on the popularity of this message and turned their attention to bringing down costs for Americans.

Because right now, Americans do believe that life's necessities are getting out of reach,

stretching their budgets for things like groceries, health care, child care, energy and housing.

Recent surveys show the extent of the pain.