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Google's AI Mode can now call nearby stores on your behalf to check if a specific item is in stock, and lets you track price changes for individual hotels directly in Search, with email alerts when prices shift.

The store-calling feature first launched in Search last November and is now moving into AI Mode, while the hotel price tracker upgrades an existing city-level tool to work for specific properties on desktop and mobile.

Google says search interest in "AI travel assistant" jumped 350% in the past year, which explains why the company is stacking travel features just before summer booking season kicks into gear.

Apple is sending fewer than 200 Siri engineers to a multi-week AI coding bootcamp to get them up to speed on tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, ahead of WWDC26 on June 8.

The move follows a wide leadership shakeup: Apple's former AI lead John Giannandrea just left, a Google veteran is now VP of AI, and the Siri team now reports to Vision Pro lead Mike Rockwell.

Apple reportedly already allocates large budgets for Claude Code in some teams, meaning the company is paying Anthropic to train its engineers while racing to ship an AI-powered Siri built on Google's Gemini.

Stanford's 2026 AI Index found China's top LLM now trails the U.S. leader by just 39 Arena points, down from a gap of over 300 in 2023, while China also leads the world in robot installations and research citations.

The U.S. still vastly outspends China on AI, with $285.9 billion in private investment versus China's $12.4 billion, but China's grid capacity and post-DeepSeek startup funding surge are closing structural gaps fast.

The talent pipeline tells the sharper story: AI scholars moving to the U.S. dropped 89% since 2017, and nearly all DeepSeek researchers were trained in China, including those who studied in American universities and went home.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, which jumps from 53.4% to 64.3% on the SWE-bench Pro coding benchmark, topping GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro but trailing the company's own unreleased Mythos Preview at 77.8%.

Opus 4.7 keeps the same API price as 4.6, though it burns through tokens faster, and ships alongside a new Claude Code effort tier and an /ultrareview command for catching bugs and design issues.

Anthropic is now running a two-track strategy: public releases every two months and a gated Mythos line for select partners, making this one of the first times the public frontier feels clearly behind the real one.

Sabi, a Silicon Valley startup, is developing a knitted cap with 70,000 to 100,000 embedded EEG sensors that reads imagined speech and converts it into typed text, with a prototype due by late 2026.

The cap runs on a custom AI model trained on 100,000 hours of neural data, targeting 30 words per minute to start, and avoids the surgical implants that rivals like Neuralink require.

Non-invasive sounds great until you remember that skin and bone muffle brain signals, which is exactly the edge implanted devices have over any hat you can take off.

A) Yes, out of sight, out of mind - 59% 🏆

B) No, we'll just scroll something else - 41%

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