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Gemini Omni wants to do with video what Nano Banana did with images: Google is aiming very high

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Creating an image with AI is no longer as surprising as before. What begins to make a difference is the ability to modify it, give it continuity and turn an initial idea into something more elaborate without losing the thread along the way. In video, that challenge is much greater: there is movement, time, physics, and characters that must continue to appear coherent. Gemini Omni comes with the promise of addressing this problem and making editing a much easier task. Google DeepMind itself asks to think of Gemini Omni as in Nano Bananabut for video. The reference makes sense because Nano Banana was Google’s image generator that took visual creation with AI to a very striking scale. The first version, released in August 2025, added 13 million users in four days and had generated more than 5 billion images by mid-October. Google now introduces Gemini Omni Flash as the first model in the Gemini Omni family. According to the company, it is designed to create content from any entry. The idea is that the user can combine images, audio, video and text as a starting point to generate high-quality videos supported by Gemini’s real-world knowledge. A video generation model that is committed to coherence The most interesting part is how Google describes the editing process. It is not only proposed as a tool to generate a clip from scratch, but as a system capable of working on a scene using chained instructions. The company talks about changing specific elements or completely transforming a starting video, adjusting aesthetics, action, environment, angle, style or specific details. It also promises to maintain character consistency, preserve scene continuity, and offer more coherent physics. In his note, he shows how Gemini Omni can start from a scene and modify it with direct instruction, whether to change the material of an object, alter an action, or turn a complex idea into a visual explanation. Let’s look at some examples of prompts. “Make the sculpture out of bubbles” “When the person touches the mirror, make the mirror ripple beautifully like liquid, and the person’s arm turns into reflective mirror material” “Claymation explainer of protein folding, everything is made out of clay, no hands, stop motion, accurate” At Xataka we have done orna first test with a recognizable image: Puerta de Alcalá, in Madrid. The starting point was a static photograph and the prompt we used was the following: “Create a video from this image. Cars are moving forward and people are walking.” (Create a video from this image. Cars move forward and people walk.) The idea was to see to what extent Gemini Omni could turn a real scene into a small moving clip. In the video above you can see precisely that attempt to animate the original imagewith cars moving forward, pedestrians walking, and ambient sound that fits the scene. It also appears to retain some visible branding elements on the vehicles, especially the Mercedes-Benz logo, although in other cases, such as Fiat, the result is less clear. Let’s talk about availability. Google ensures that Gemini Omni Flash begins to reach Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers through Gemini and Google Flow, while its deployment at no cost in YouTube Shorts and YouTube Create App launches this week. In our test with a corporate account, however, we found ourselves with a fairly tight limit: after generating three videos, the system warned us that “we had reached our video generation limit until May 20 at 7:59 p.m.” It is not too surprising if we think about what is happening below: creating video with AI requires a lot of resources, so everything indicates that Google would be dosing access, at least in this first phase. When we talk about video generation with artificial intelligence, it is likely that one of the first names that comes to mind is sora. It arrived like one of the great promises of OpenAI for this terrain. The route, however, ended up being much shorter than that initial ambition suggested. Its website and app were no longer available at the end of April 2026.although the API will continue to work until September 24. Images | Google | Xataka In Xataka | There is a battle to have the AI ​​model that programs best. And a good, pretty and very cheap rival has appeared in it: Cursor

one where Google, Amazon and Microsoft pay a toll so that we all have internet

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In March 2024, several countries in East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia began experiencing strange internet outages and massive slowdowns in digital services. The origin was not in a cyber attack or an electrical blackout, it was on a ship reached during an attack in the Red Sea that had accidentally dragged its anchor onto the seabed and damaged several undersea cables essential for global communications. Iran’s plan B. For decades, the Strait of Hormuz was seen as the great bottleneck energy of the planet, the route through which much of the world’s oil circulates. It happens that the war with the United States and Israel has made Iran discover something much more important: the Internet also circulates under those waters. As? Apparently, CNN told that Tehran has understood that the submarine cables that connect Europe, Asia and the Gulf are an infrastructure as strategic as oil tankers, and it wants to convert that geographical position into a new source of power. The idea that begins to emerge in Iranian discourse is very clear: if the world needs to pass data under Hormuz, large technology companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft or Meta should accept some kind of tolllicense or submission to Iranian rules. In other words, Hormuz would no longer be just a lever about global energybut also about the digital economy. The invisible cables. The great Iranian strategic discovery is born from an inconspicuous reality: almost all global traffic data depends on physical cables laid on the seabed. Banking payments, cloud services, military communications, streaming platforms, stock market operations and much of the artificial intelligence infrastructure pass through them. Some of these cables cross areas near Iranian waters, especially in the Persian Gulf. Although many of the international routes were designed to directly avoid Iranian territory, Tehran understands that proximity is enough to put pressure. The regime has understood that interrupting or threatening these corridors could generate enormous economic and psychological damage, even without firing a missile. The threat of submarine warfare. At this point it should be noted that Iran has not promised to sabotage cables directly, but it has launched deliberately ambiguous messages about possible interruptions or damages. Precisely this ambiguity is part of the strategy. The country has underwater drones, mini-submarines and capable naval forces to operate in the Gulfwhile its regional allies have already accidentally demonstrated in the Red Sea the enormous impact that a simple underwater incident. The real Western fear is not, therefore, a total internet blackout, but rather a chain of disruptions: financial delays, problems in data centers, degradation of business networks or difficulties in repairing critical infrastructure in the middle of a military crisis. In a world completely dependent on data, touching these cables means little less than touching the global economy. The inspiration of the Suez Canal. Tehran clearly looks to the Suez Canal as a model. Egypt has been monetizing for decades its strategic position by charging tolls and taking advantage of the passage of submarine cables between Europe and Asia. Iran wants to partially replicate that logic, although applied to a much more hostile and militarized environment. In fact, the media linked to the Revolutionary Guard they already talk about compulsory licenses, passage fees and exclusive rights for Iranian companies in charge of maintenance. Legally the scenario is complex and many operators will probably ignore the threats while US sanctions are in place, but the simple fact that Iran is openly raising this idea demonstrates how it has changed his strategic vision on Hormuz. The new discovered power. In short, and as we have already seen with crude oil, what is truly important is not whether Iran will one day manage to collect money from the big Western technology companies, but rather that it has discovered a new form of pressure global. For years, Tehran believed that its greatest weapon it was oil. Now you have understood that the world depends even more on invisible data flows that happen under the sea. That is possibly the great geopolitical transformation that Hormuz is currently revealing: a classic maritime strait is also becoming a critical point for the global digital economy. And that means that future international tensions will no longer revolve solely around the control of energy, that too, but also the control of the infrastructure that supports nothing more and nothing less than the internet. Image | Nara, Wikimedia, Collinpetty In Xataka | The war in Iran is doing something that not even Ryanair imagined: making 20 euro flights a relic of the past In Xataka | Dubai has come to the same conclusion as Russia. To protect your oil from drones there is something better than missiles: giant cages

Someone has gathered more than 13 million public contracts and has set up the Google of public procurement in Spain

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Every euro spent by a State Public Administration must be traceable by citizens. We don’t say it, the law says it. But theory is one thing and practice another: if you try, you will discover that sometimes it is a long, tedious and sometimes almost impossible mission. Let me explain: when someone wants to know which company a public hospital or city council has awarded contracts to, the official search path forces them to go through different platforms ranging from Public Sector Procurement Platform state to autonomous regions such as those of the Community of Madrid, the Basque Country or Galicia, because there are CCAA (quite a few) that have their own system and do not publish in PLACSP. This fragmentation makes the search difficult, as details the Public Procurement Observatory. So an engineer has set out to solve it by building a search engine for Spanish public contracts. The “Google” of public contracts in Spain. jobsearch.com solves this fragmentation problem with a single search engine. It is an independent project that aggregates, cross-references and allows you to consult in seconds the public procurement information that the State publishes dispersedly on a long list of different platforms. More specifically, it draws from 10 official sources, including the State Platform (PLACSP), the Official Journal of the EU (TED), and regional platforms of Madrid, Catalonia, Galicia, Andalusia, the Basque Country, Asturias and the Valencian Community, plus data from the Commercial Registry. The result is a search engine with around 13.4 million indexed contracts, without advertising, without tracking and with open source available on GitHub. Behind the project, Gerard Sanchezprogrammer and founder of BQuant and professor at the University of Navarra and the UPF Barcelona School of Management. Why is it important. Public procurement is not trivial: in Spain it moved more than 113 billion euros in 2024, the equivalent of 10.92% of GDP, according to the OIReScon Annual Surveillance Report 2025the official supervisory body of the Ministry of Finance. Each year a sum of money is allocated through procedures that must be public and auditable. The reality is that this audit is very difficult without tools. A CNMC report of 2019 highlights that public procurement represents between 10% and 20% of Spanish GDP and that Spain is one of the European countries with the lowest participation of companies in tenders: only one company participates in one in three state contracts. With data access tools that facilitate transparency, competition could be increased and the cost for public coffers reduced. Context. In Spain there are several laws that require public contracts to be published: there is the Law 19/2013 on transparency, access to public information and good governance with a triple objective of increasing transparency in public activity, guaranteeing access to information as a right and establishing good governance obligations for public officials, but also the Law 9/2017 on Public Sector Contractswhich is a transposition of European directives on public procurement. So the problem is not that there are no regulations, but rather their application and the dispersion of data. As explains the Public Procurement ObservatorySince March 2018, it has been mandatory for the entire public sector to publish the information on their contracts in the PLACSP, but the tool is also a headache as thousands of entities upload information manually and with free-writing text, which constitutes a continuous source of error. PreciselyBuscalicitaciones.com detects and documents these inconsistencies. How it works. Technically, the project downloads and normalizes the open data that each of those 10 official platforms publishes in structured formats such as XML, JSON, CSV. Each record is crossed with data from the Commercial Registry to enrich the information of the successful bidder. The search engine offers three main modes of use: search for contracts by winning company, contracting body, CPV sector or free text of the contract; see the complete history of awards of any company by its NIF and consult a public registry of contracts with anomalous amounts greater than 1,000 million euros. Yes, but. The first major limitation is structural: it depends on the quality of the data published by official sources and that quality can clearly be improved. If the source data is bad, the aggregator inherits that error. And we have already seen that sometimes it is and that it is certainly anything but homogeneous. On the other hand, this is the first version of the project and it shows: It has flaws and the coverage is not complete. Navarra does not appear on the list and sources such as the Valencian Community do not have an aggregate amount available, the Basque Country only has an amount in 106,000 of its 651,000 contracts and Catalonia has two separate entries with different coverage. On the other hand, the independent and altruistic nature of this public utility resource also has its B side: long-term sustainability, given its great magnitude. In Xataka | Someone has passed 12,000 laws and reforms to source code and now searching the BOE is no longer an ordeal In Xataka | The “ChatGPT for lawyers” exists, it was born in Spain and has just reached a milestone: becoming a unicorn Cover | Mockuphone and Gemini

The Google Pixel 10 is cheaper than ever, but only until Monday at MediaMarkt

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He Google Pixel 10 It remains one of the most desired phones of the year. If you have been wanting to buy it for a while and have postponed the purchase decision many times, now is a good time to buy it at MediaMarkt. Until next Monday, May 17, you can get the latest smartphone launched by Google with an extra 10% discount (in addition to already being discounted in the “Worldwide Offers” campaign). To benefit from that discount, you have to copy the code ‘PIXEL10MAY‘ when you already have the mobile phone in the shopping cart. The base model, thanks to this code, remains available for 539.10 euros. Although it is not the only Google Pixel that you can buy with this code. These are other models in which it applies: The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Android 16 and seamless Gemini integration in the palm of your hand One of the notable things about this Google Pixel 10 It is control over your brain. This is thanks to the processor G5 tensionerdesigned entirely by Google and manufactured by TSMC. This means that the phone heats up less and also highlights the integration with Gemini. The Google Pixel 10 is also a genius of computational photography 2.0. He 50 MP main sensor It now works with a much faster NPU (Neural Processing Unit), allowing a night mode in video that will seem like magic and instant photo processing. The screen of this Google Pixel 10 is Actua 6.3-inch OLEDso the compact size continues to be Google’s hallmark for its base smartphone in this latest generation. It can also be noted that, with this model, Google keeps its promise and guarantees operating system updates (Android 16) for seven years. ⚡ IN BRIEF: offer for the Google pixel 10 today ✅ THE BEST Your photographic system: Few phones of the same price as this Pixel can fight against it in the photography section. An operating system that lasts for years: Having pure Android is one of the main hallmarks of Google phones and they guarantee updates for years (seven, specifically). ❌ THE WORST The screen can be improved… Although it is true that the Google Pixel 10 has a good screen, we miss that it is not LTPO. 💡 BUY IT IF… You want a cell phone to take good photos without having to spend the almost 1,000 euros that high-end terminals from other brands usually cost. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… Obviously, the only significant drawback that this mobile has is that it works with Android, so if you don’t want a terminal with this operating system, you have no choice but to go for a iPhone. Some accessories that may interest you for this mobile Pixelsnap Case for Google Pixel 10 & Pixel 10 Pro The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Pixel Buds 2a – Wireless Earbuds with Active Noise Cancellation The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Pepu Ricca (Xataka) and Google In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Is it a good time to buy a Pixel 10 or will the price drop soon? This is what the data tells us

The mouse cursor has hardly changed for half a century. Google just tried to make that no longer the case

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Google DeepMind has published the principles and demos of Magic Pointera mouse pointer powered by Gemini who understands what you are pointing out and why. Without writing anything. Just pointing. Why is it important. The chatbot as the main interface has been the dominant model in AI for two years: you open a window, write and you get a response. Magic Pointer proposes the opposite: the AI ​​moves with you around the screen, reads what is in front of you and acts without you explaining the context. If it works as promised, the text box is no longer the gateway to AI. The logic behind the project is that the problem with current AI is not its capacity, but the friction to use it. Every time you want to ask a model for something, you have to drag your world into it: open a window, paste text, explain the context from scratch, etc. Magic Pointer reverses that flow: the AI ​​goes where the cursor is. In detail. The system captures visual and semantic context around the pointer. You indicate a date in an email and Gemini suggests creating an event. You select two images, a sofa and your living room, and the model composes them. You hover over a table and you can request a graph without opening any more apps. The objective is to replace the prompts long by what DeepMind calls “natural shorthand”: point out something, say what you want, and have the system fill in the gaps. There are live demos at Google AI Studio and the system now reaches Chrome. In autumn it will land in Googlebookthe new Google laptop with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo as manufacturers. Between the lines. We are looking at three ways to put AI in a computer: Apple integrates it within each application. Microsoft puts Copilot on a side panel. Google puts Gemini inside the pointing device itself: it is not in the background, it is the cursor, it is the widgetis the interface between the user and the machine. That last one is a philosophical bet. And it has implications for the chatbot model: if the cursor acts as a contextual agent, the chat window loses its monopoly as an entry point. Yes, but. Googlebook arrives in autumn as a premium product, with no announced price yet. The Android ecosystem on the desktop remains the weak flank: if developers do not build native apps for the big screen, the Magic Pointer points to a world that does not yet exist. And in any market where Gemini is restricted by regulations, the entire proposition becomes empty. In Xataka | The AI ​​industry already knows how to make more money. Just use the fear strategy Featured image | Google

Google and Apple have been wanting to kill SMS for years. So they have signed peace between their messaging apps

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Apple and Google have been betting on their own protocols for years RCS messaging. Relevant solutions in territories like the United States, but that do not fully penetrate the rest of the world. Despite this, both companies have closed an important agreement, so that when chatting from an Android to an iPhone the communication is encrypted. The novelty. Google has announced an agreement with Apple to implement end-to-end encryption for RCSensuring that chats between Android and iOS are secure by default. Although both systems had encrypted device-to-device communication (Android to Android and iPhone to iPhone), this security measure did not apply when we communicated with a different operating system. Why is it important. From now on, if you are looking for a safe way to communicate without going through applications like WhatsApp or Telegram, use the native Messages app (have an iPhone or have an Android) is an excellent option. There is no need to download anything, files can be shared, and the information does not pass through the hands of anyone other than Apple or Google. It is not the perfect solution for those looking for absolute anonymity, but it is a great plan to do without giants like Meta. What is RCS?. RCS stands for “Rich Communication Service”. It is a protocol that came to succeed SMS, and allows communication to be carried out in an encrypted and fast way. Being a protocol and not an app, developers need to create them to use RCS. In the case of Google it is the Messages app and, on iOS, too. When you send a message via RCS, it goes through our operator’s server, and from there to a server certified by the GSMA. It allows you to send images and videos of up to 10 MB and, most importantly, it does not require an internet connection to work. SMS vibes. Why it fails. Apple and Google’s efforts with RCS have to do with a phenomenon that has been happening for years in the US: the overwhelming success of the iPhone and iMessage. In the United States, iMessage is used more than WhatsAppsomething unthinkable in our country. Spain is the country of absolute dominance of WhatsApp, with Apple representing just over 10% of the market share and making it impossible for iMessage to be a rival for the Meta app. Why will he still be alive?. Google, despite controlling 70% of the mobile market with Android, needs a direct way for its users to communicate. And that way is RCS. Apple was forced to adopt it due to European pressure and, although it may not be a massive protocol, it is a key alternative to rival services. Be that as it may, good news for those who want alternatives to WhatsApp or Telegram when communicating from one mobile phone to another without the need for a network connection. In Xataka | Meta will pay $1.4 billion to Texas for violating the privacy of its users. Used facial recognition without permission

Europe has been depending on Amazon, Google and Microsoft for its most critical data for years. You are about to cut off their access

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The European Commission is taking action. This organization is expected to present its “Technological Sovereignty Package” on May 27. This directive will include a series of measures aimed at boosting the EU’s strategic autonomy in sensitive areas, and that means something unique: stopping depending as much as possible on US hyperscalers to store critical data. The fear of the off button. The measures are being applied due to growing political instability and some recent cases that have demonstrated the power that the US has over the European technological infrastructure. In May Microsoft “cancelled” the email of Karim Khan, a prosecutor who had been directly cited in an executive order from Donald Trump. Microsoft he denied itbut the damage had already been done, and these problems have raised fears that Trump could use a kind of “off button” against European institutions that depend on the hardware and software infrastructure provided by companies like Microsoft, Google or Amazon. Legal espionage. The CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) is a 2018 US law that allows law enforcement to force US-based technology companies (such as Google, Microsoft or Amazon) to provide data, regardless of where it is stored, whether inside or outside the United States. This law updates the Stored Communications Act to prioritize data control over its location. Or what is the same: if you use the services of US hyperscalers, the US may end up accessing your data. And since you’ve accepted their terms of use, you agree to let them legally spy on you if they “need to.” If you want my critical data, you’ll have to protect it. The new regulations require service providers who want to work with critical European data to demonstrate that they are not subject to requests from non-EU governments. This automatically excludes Microsoft, Google or Amazon, because all three are subject to the CLOUD Act. Europe is thus looking for providers that guarantee that critical data will not be in the possession of companies that then have to transfer it to foreign powers. Europe depends on the American cloud. The reality is that today Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure) and Google (Google Cloud) currently control more than 70% of the Cloud Computing market in the old continent. Losing these institutional contracts would mean a significant financial blow, but it also sends a powerful signal to European private companies: if Brussels does not trust the US with its secrets, why should European corporations? The domino effect could be huge. Europe has its own clouds. This directive would give an important opportunity to initiatives that seemed stalled like GAIA-Xbut there are also companies with their own infrastructure such as OVH (France) or T-Systems (Germany). There are significant technical challenges in that area, because US hyperscalers have been refining their offering over the past two decades. However, Brussels seems willing to accept a somewhat less efficient or complete service in exchange for greater autonomy. The options existno doubt, but the challenge is enormous. Migrating is going to be expensive. It is one thing to make the decision and quite another to complete that migration that will require moving decades of data and systems to a different infrastructure. Current data centers would have to be expanded to meet demand, they say some analysisand that would mean a cost of between 14,000 and 24,000 million euros. Consulting companies like Forrester they don’t see anything clear that the EU can achieve cloud sovereignty, and other experts also make it clear that Europe will not abandon the hyperscalers. Traceability. In addition to changing suppliers, the board also wants to impose strict requirements regarding transparency. AI systems that have access to that data must be auditable by the newly created EU AI Office. The Commission wants to know who has access to the code, who maintains the servers and who has the technical capacity to manage and even intercept such data transfers. Data too sensitive. In comments to CNBCEU officials explained that there are active debates demanding that financial, judicial or health data used at the government level and in the public sector have a sovereign cloud infrastructure. That’s also true for military data, of course, and There are already movements in that direction. Fragmented Internet. The move confirms that the world appears to be heading toward a future with a fragmented internet and one that will have important geopolitical boundaries. While the US tries to defend its technology against China, Europe and the entire world are trying to avoid or at least mitigate their excessive dependence on American technological solutions. Image | İsmail Enes Ayhan and François Genon In Xataka | Europe no longer trusts Google. That is why several start-ups are designing an independent payment system on Android

Google has become (even) more demanding with captchas. The Open Source community has not been amused at all

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One of the conversations of the weekend was carried out by important developers, such as those from GrapheneOS. Google’s new security measures related to website access are beginning to be implemented in 2026 and, as a result, both custom ROMs and operating systems without Google presence have it tough. Google Cloud Fraud. If someone is okay with traffic light captchas as a security measure, I would tell you that they are not trustworthy. Google was also clear that they were not always ideal, so it developed an alternative solution, the evolution of reCAPTCHA. When the system detects suspicious traffic, it does not use the captcha system, it asks the user to scan a QR code with their smartphone. According to Googleis the best way to fight against bots and unwanted agents, protecting against attacks and possible fraud. But everything has a B side. The problem. The problem is that, for this security measure to work on Android, it is mandatory that the device has Google Play Services installed in a recent version. One of the key points of custom ROMs like GrapheneOS It is precisely that they are systems based on Open Source Android, but without Google services. Google Play Services is Google’s proprietary software layer that runs on certified Androids and provides, among other things, the APIs that verify that a device is approved by Google. Without them, it is not possible to satisfy the requests of the Play Integrity API, which is responsible for approving web access. The GrapheneOS case. GrapheneOS is one of the most secure ROMs in the world, one that has earned its reputation thanks to additional layers built on AOSP and, above all, by not having Google services or needing them for its operation. The GrapheneOS team argues that this has nothing to do with security. They claim that Play Integrity API rejects GrapheneOS and other systems even though it is technically more secure than most devices that do pass verification. Google’s Play Integrity API allows devices without security patches for years but updated to Play Services, but blocks the use of GrapheneOS even though it is much more technically secure. Mega’s entrance. After the complaint not only from Graphene, but from Cyber ​​DigestMega has come in to criticize the measure. Remember that in 2023 an attempt was made to do something similar with Web Environment Integrity (WEI). This was a proposal that Google had to abandon after criticism. That year, Google tried to put in place a mechanism that would allow websites to check whether the software and hardware on a user’s device was verified by Google. The logic was the same as now: if your settings did not conform to what Google considered acceptable, access was blocked. The proposal generated such widespread rejection among developers, web standards organizations and users that Google had to withdraw it. And now what. The relevant question is not whether or not Google is entitled to do this, because it is. The question is what happens when the de facto standard for online verification is controlled by the same company that sells the hardware and software necessary to surpass it. In Xataka | There is a race to get the first phone with 100% free software: so far there has only been failure

How to create a Telegram bot that summarizes your Google Calendar appointments every morning with AI

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We are going to tell you how to create a Telegram bot that summarize your Google Calendar appointments and events each daymaking him a personal secretary who gives you a summary every morning. To do this, we will make the bot use artificial intelligence as Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude or whatever you prefer. To carry out this task we are going to use two third-party services. First we will use BotFather from Telegram to create the bot, and then we will go to the service Make to create a workflow or workflow that adds an AI, which in the case of our step by step will be Gemini, but you can use any other. But before we start, just one warning. This method is very easy and useful, but in the end you will be giving your calendar information to third parties. Google already has it, but you will also be sharing it on the Make platform, and that is something you should always keep in mind. First you must create the bot The first thing you should do is create a bot on Telegram with BotFather. To do this, write a message to the bot @BotFather and write to you as if you were a new user. Type the command /newbot to create a new bot, to which you have to give a name to identify yourself and a unique username to access the bot whenever you want. When you do it, it will give you two things, first the username and address of your bot to access it, and second an access token with various figures and letters. You have to save this token to use later. In the message that Telegram will return to you, will also give you a link to the bot you createdwhich will basically be t.me/@botname. This will be important for later. Also you can use BotFather options to customize your botputting a profile image, a description or whatever you want. We have explained all this to you in our post about BotFather. Once the bot is created you must enter and run it with the /Start command so that it remains active, even if doing so does not respond to anything. Now get the API of an AI Now you need the API of an AI. We will use the Free Gemini APIwhich although it has some limits in its use, is more than enough for a little use. To get it go to the website aistudio.google.com and sign in with your Google account. When you do, go to Dashboard and click on API keys. in here, click on the option Create API key which you have at the top right. Now you have to click on the option Create API key that appears at the top of the screen you have created. This will open a window where you have to create the project for which you are going to use it in order to identify it, for example “Secretary Bot”. When you create the project, you can now create the API. And by the way, if you want something more advanced, We have also explained payment alternatives to the Google API. In Basics you have articles where you can see the prices and how to get the ChatGPT APIthe Claude APIthe DeepSeek API wave Qwen API. Now create the workflow Now it’s time to create your workflow. For this, you will have to enter Make.com, and create a new scenario. This will take you to a screen where you just have to click on the add button to add the first module, and then to the right of each module click on + to add another adjacent one. But to do this, you will have to configure each module before chaining the next one. We are going to guide you and explain to you the four modules you should add and how to configure themas well as then scheduling the scenario to run every day at the time you want. 1. Add the calendar module To start, you have to create a new module. On the screen that opens, choose Google Calendarand in the options click on the module Search Events. You will have to sign in with your Google account. In the configuration window, you will have to add the following elements that we are going to list: Calendar ID: Choose the primary calendar or the one where you have the data of the meetings or elements that you want to summarize. Start Date: Paste the following: {{formatDate(now; “YYYY-MM-DD”)}}T00:00:00Z End Date: Paste the following: {{formatDate(now; “YYYY-MM-DD”)}}T23:59:59Z Single Events: In this field, choose the option Yes. When you have everything, click on Save. If you want, click below Run eleven so that Make takes a look at your calendar, and so in the next module you can put options related to the results obtained. 2. Add the text aggregator Now you have to add a next module chained with the calendar. In the applications press Toolsand inside click on Text Aggregator. Now, enter the module, and in the field text you will have to choose the options 1.Summary and 1.Start. If you get confused, just by clicking on the text field a window with suggestions will appear. In it, search for Google Calendar suggestions, and in the results click on the options Summary and startso that when filled in they appear with the number 1. If they do not appear, first do a Run eleven with the calendar module alone so that they appear when creating the Text Aggregator. 3. Add Gemini into the equation With what we have done so far, the automation analyzes your calendar and obtains the events. Now it’s the turn of send it all to Gemini so that it then generates the response. For this, choose the module Geminiand link the AI ​​using the API we obtained before. Once you have done it, it’s time to configure the module. In AI Model you have to … Read more

It’s bad news for Google

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If the question is which AI makes better images, the general answer would be Google’s Nano Banana 2. And if we talk about preparing reports rigorously, we would probably say that Claude is the one who takes the lead. But in the AI ​​race, just as important as being the best is appearing to be the best. And above all, make money with your model. And if the arrival of artificial intelligence to the labor market has felt like an earthquake in the shape of more or less related layoffs, barriers to entry to junior profiles and have to work more Against all odds, the reality is that in recent months the scenario of which AI is the favorite of companies has taken a turn. Visual Capitalist has published a graph that monitors month by month from January 2023 to March 2026 what percentage of US companies pay for each provider’s models. To prepare it, they used anonymized spending data from more than 50,000 companies on the platform. ramptaking only paid subscriptions, so free use is left out. The result is a clear picture of consolidation: the market is shrinking towards very few players at breakneck speed. The graph marks a clear winner from the start: OpenAI is the most widespread payment AI provider among US companies, reaching a share of 35.2% in March of this year. Just behind is Anthropic with a share of 30.6%. You have to look down a lot to find the others: Google, xAI and the rest of the providers are below 5%. But the most important thing when looking at the photo is not who the leader is but the trend: Anthropic’s is a meteoric rise. What AI model are companies paying for? The market closes and It only has room for two: OpenAI and Anthropic together account for nearly 66% of the AI ​​business payment market in the United States, meaning that two out of every three dollars that companies spend on AI models go to these two companies. The rest share the crumbs. This type of concentration is the fish that bites its tail: leading companies have more customers, more usage data and more resources to improve their products, so their pursuers have it increasingly difficult, although it is true that Google has muscle for a while. What AI models are companies paying for? Visual Capitalist with Ramp data January 2025 is a key date in the graph: OpenAI was present in 16.8% of companies and Anthropic barely had 4.1%, slightly below Google’s 4.2% share. In 14 months Anthropic has multiplied its presence sevenfold, while OpenAI has doubled it and Google has 4.3%. The takeoff coincides with the launch of Claude Code in February 2025, its scheduling assistant that became general availability in May of that year, and accelerates with the arrival of Cowork in January 2026, its workflow platform. That Claude be a rocket The graph has several explanations. Yes, it’s a good AI model, but Anthropic has been able to build concrete tools around that model that companies use every day and that make it difficult to switch vendors. According to Sacra estimatesas of October 2025, Anthropic had more than 300,000 business clients that represented approximately 80% of its revenue, which shows that those at Amodei were clear about their strategy from the beginning: their niche is the company and not so much the ordinary user. Google has been oscillating between 3 and 4.5% in business share for three years, a marginal advance compared to the budding duopoly and the investment made. Elon Musk’s xAI has gone from zero to 1.9% in March 2026, which means appearing on the map, but still very far from the competition. But the case of Google is the one that truly baffles: It has cutting-edge technology, one of the most powerful cloud infrastructures in the world and access to an amount of data like never before, but it doesn’t get companies to open their wallets. Everything indicates that the problem is in how it has packaged its products: dispersed among too many brands and platforms, which creates real confusion for the business customer. In Xataka | If the question is which of the big tech companies is winning the AI ​​race, the answer is: none In Xataka | The US’s problem in the AI ​​and humanoid race is not China: it is all of Asia and it is greatly disadvantaged Cover | Visual Capitalist

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