Google brings AI to Chrome

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Comet, Arc, Brave, and others could have fired the primary shots within the AI browser wars, but it surely was only a matter of time until Google made its play.

With Gemini now embedded into the sidebar of essentially the most used web browser on this planet, the search giant is finally about to show its Chrome monopoly into an AI distribution superpower.

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In today’s AI rundown:

• Google embeds Gemini into Chrome

• AI designs first working virus genomes

• Get a each day AI summary of emails with Gumloop

• Luma’s Ray3 reasoning video model

• 4 recent AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

🌐 Google embeds Gemini into Chrome

The Rundown: Google just introduced recent Gemini integration across its Chrome browser for all U.S. desktop users, giving the platform recent AI-powered capabilities for multi-tab context, an embedded AI Mode, and more.

The main points:

• Chrome now features native Gemini access via a dedicated button, allowing users to investigate info and content across tabs without switching windows.

• Chrome’s address bar gains AI Mode later this month, enabling multi-part questions with follow-ups directly where users already search and navigate.

• Google also previewed upcoming agentic capabilities that can handle multi-step tasks autonomously, from grocery shopping to appointment booking.

Why it matters: Google’s rollout of Gemini into its dominant Chrome browser is about to make the AI assistant sidebar as common as a URL box. While competitors scrambled to construct recent browsers from scratch, Google’s AI infusion was at all times lurking — and marks the largest step yet towards a mainstream AI-powered browsing future.

TOGETHER WITH ZAPIER

⚡️ ZapConnect: Where AI steps into the highlight

The Rundown: Join Zapier live to tell the tale Sept. 25 at 9 AM PST for ZapConnect, a virtual event that spotlights the facility of AI to drive real-world results through hands-on workshops, actionable suggestions, and lessons from cutting-edge organizations.

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• Cutting-edge AI workflows

• Zapier product insights

• Interactive sessions and networking

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ARC INSTITUTE

🧬 AI designs first working virus genomes

The Rundown: Researchers at Stanford and the Arc Institute just created the primary AI-generated, entirely recent viruses from scratch that successfully infect and kill bacteria, marking a breakthrough in computational biology.

The main points:

• Scientists trained an AI model called Evo on 2M viruses, then asked it to design brand recent ones — with 16 of 302 attempts proving functional in lab tests.

• The AI viruses contained 392 mutations never seen in nature, including successful combos that scientists had previously tried and did not engineer.

• When bacteria developed resistance to natural viruses, AI-designed versions broke through defenses in days where the standard viruses failed.

• One synthetic version incorporated a component from a distantly related virus, something researchers had attempted unsuccessfully to design for years.

Why it matters: We’re on the starting line of a very recent era of AI-driven scientific discovery. Because the Arc Institute elegantly put it, “the transition from reading and writing genomes to designing them represents a brand new chapter in our ability to engineer biology at its foundational level.”

AI TRAINING

📧 Get a each day AI summary of your emails with Gumloop

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn how one can get a each day summary of your emails using Gumloop’s recent AI agent “Gummie.” As an alternative of manually wiring nodes and triggers, you describe what you wish, and it drafts all the workflow for you.

Step-by-step:

1. Go to Gumloop.com, create a Latest workbook, and select the AI Feature path as a substitute of manual node setup

2. Browse department presets for inspiration or select “Other” and use this prompt: “Summarize my unread emails from the last 24 hours”

3. Review Gummie’s suggested flow plan with nodes for reading unread emails, structuring records, combining content, and generating summaries

4. Run the automation and evaluate your email summary for accuracy, making adjustments to nodes and prompts as needed

Pro Tip: In the event you do not know what to prompt Gummie to automate, explain your problem to ChatGPT and ask it to list 10 ways to automate the problem with specific AI tools.

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LUMA AI

🎬 Luma’s Ray3 reasoning video model

The Rundown: Luma AI just released Ray3, a reasoning-powered video model able to generating studio-quality HDR footage while critiquing its own outputs to deliver higher results.

The main points:

• Ray3 produces native HDR video for cinematic quality outputs, with the power to export into file formats for integration into skilled editing workflows.

• The model’s reasoning allows it to know nuanced directions, evaluate its own generations, and iterate routinely until outputs meet quality standards.

• Ray3 also introduces visual annotation controls that allow creators sketch directly on frames to guide movement and camera angles.

• A brand new Draft Mode generates rough previews in 20 seconds at one-fifth the associated fee, then upgrades chosen shots to full 4K HDR quality in under five minutes.

Why it matters: Hailing Ray3 because the world’s first reasoning video model, Luma just brought a brand recent dynamic to generations — having the system evaluate and refine before the ultimate output. With HDR quality, editing, and annotation capabilities, AI video continues to develop into customizable for even essentially the most demanding needs.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🤖 Notion Agent – A Notion power user that understands the way in which you’re employed, handling multi-step tasks and saving hours with one prompt*

• 🎥 Ray3 – Luma AI’s recent reasoning video model with studio-grade outputs

• 💼 AI Companion 3.0 – Zoom’s upgrade with meeting, avatar, and agents

• 🌎 Marble – World Labs’ beta platform for generating explorable 3D worlds

*Sponsored Listing

📰 All the pieces else in AI today

DeepSeek published a brand new paper detailing the technical details behind its R1 model that shook up the AI space in January, also revealing that it cost just $294,000 to coach.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he now believes there’s a “25% likelihood things go really, really badly” with AI development resulting in disaster.

Meta is reportedly pursuing AI content licensing deals with major media corporations, including Axel Springer, Fox, and News Corp, joining other major AI players.

Notion launched Notion 3.0, featuring AI agents that may complete multi-step workflows, access integrated tools, and work for as much as 20 minutes at a time.

Amazon added agentic AI to its Seller Assistant, enabling it to handle tasks like managing inventory, monitoring account health, and developing growth strategies.

Nvidia and Intel announced a brand new partnership to co-develop x86 processors for AI infrastructure and PC products, with Nvidia also investing $5B in Intel.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Nancy M. in Cape Charles, VA:

“ChatGPT has develop into my behind-the-scenes creative partner in my art profession—it helps me brainstorm recent painting ideas, refine product descriptions for my paintings, craft lesson plans for my students, and even polish press releases and outreach emails so my work reaches the best audience. It’s like having a collaborator who’s at all times ready with fresh ideas, marketing strategies, and time-saving tools, so I can spend more of my energy doing what I like: creating art.”

How do you employ AI? Tell us here.

🎓 Highlights: News, Guides & Events

• Read our last AI newsletter: Meta’s smart glasses get a neural upgrade

• Read our last Tech newsletter: Google joins the $3T club

• Read our last Robotics newsletter: Figure soars to $39B valuation

• Today’s AI tool guide: Get a each day AI summary of your inbox with Gumloop

• RSVP to next workshop @ 4PM EST today: Construct reliable AI assistants

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown