Google Search Updates, New AI Models, Altman vs. Musk Lawsuit + more!

Duration: 08:36

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:16 Google Search Updates

1:42 New AI Models

2:55 Altman vs. Musk Lawsuit

4:14 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:23 Plex Lifetime Subscription Pricing

5:04 Intel Wildcat Lake Laptops

6:01 Microsoft Scrapping SMS 2FA

6:37 OpenAI and Apple’s Possible Legal Battle

7:15 Russian Plan to Advertise in Space

NEWS SOURCES:

MAIN

SEARCH AND DESTROY

Google is killing search and replacing it with AGENTIC SEARCH, NEVER VISIT ANOTHER WEBSITE AGAIN - https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

Original Source A new era for ai search: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/

And guess what, you’ll be able to get those hallucinations without ever even touching a computer because of these new glasses - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgz1ynq1nqo

Original Source: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/android-xr-io-2026/

Display-equipped Project Aura glasses also launching “this year” https://www.roadtovr.com/first-android-xr-glasses-2026-launch/

Can’t be left behind because the lizards over at meta are making Bank off their glasses - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj37z8357e5o

But how will I buy stuff without a computer, with AI you idiot -

https://9to5google.com/2026/05/19/google-gemini-universal-cart-web-shopping-tool/

Original Source: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/shopping/google-shopping-cart/

And they’re also search changes to youtube search with “ask youtube” it’ll pull insights directly out of videos so you don’t have to waste time watching the videos - https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/ask-youtube-brings-ai-powered-conversational-search-to-video-adds-gemini-omni-to-shorts/

https://www.engadget.com/2176557/ask-youtube-compiles-vide-answers-to-your-questions/

SLOP ME DADDI

In addition to ruining their legacy products google is rolling out a shitload of NEW models, including: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Pro, and Gemini OMNI -https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/google-ai-ultra-gemini-spark-omni.html

Original Source:

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/google-io-2026-collection/

Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/#gemini-3-5-flash

Omni is their answer to seedance 2.0 - https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni/

…starting with video https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni/#:~:text=from%20any%20input%20%E2%80%93-,starting%20with%20video.,-Koray%20Kavukcuoglu

Look at how good it is at making google doodles! https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/SundarKeynote-hero.width-2200.format-webp.webp

Way better and clearer and easier to read than these HUMAN ONES - https://doodles.google/doodle/mothers-day-2026-may-10/

https://youtu.be/KUyRq7szZsM?t=36

And they’re baking it directly into shorts - https://www.theverge.com/tech/934704/google-gemini-omni-youtub-shorts-remix-ai

making good on their commitment to only bake artisanal google branded slop into shorts - https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2026/01/23/youtube-plans-to-fight-against-ai-slop-by-using-ai/

And for everyone who wanted an always on agent constantly running AI agent on your computer, consuming power, accessing everything and getting non stop prompt injected we’ve got Gemini Spark - https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/934478/if-google-cant-make-ai-agents-useful-maybe-no-one-can

Original Source https://gemini.google/overview/agent/spark/

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

https://www.wired.com/story/musk-v-altman-jury-verdict/

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/18/musk-loses-ai-trial-openai-altman

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5822366/musk-altman-openai-jury-verdict-claims-dismissed

Musk “took too long to sue”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/elon-musk-loses-trial-accusing-sam-altman-openai-of-stealing-a-charity/

Dirty laundry

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/what-we-learned-elon-musk-sam-altman

Listical

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/5-most-unhinged-revelations-elon-190000234.html

“Morally bankrupt”

https://lmg.gg/QpCyg

OpenAI won, but the “court attack on OpenAI could leave lasting scars on Altman's reputation”

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/musks-failed-court-attack-openai-could-leave-lasting-scars-ceos-reputation-2026-05-19/

Vows to appeal

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/musk-altman-openai-trial-verdict.html

QUICK BITS

PLEXIN ON THEM JOES

https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-lifetime-plex-pass-pricing/

https://lmg.gg/bomvn

https://www.engadget.com/2176760/plexs-lifetime-subscription-cost-is-tripling-to-dollar750/

Plex “tries forcing users to another subscription”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/plexs-200-lifetime-pass-price-hike-tries-forcing-users-to-another-subscription/

“Burns Through Any Remaining Goodwill”

https://kotaku.com/plex-burns-through-any-remaining-goodwill-by-raising-the-price-of-its-lifetime-subscription-500-2000697583

“Borderline offensive”

https://www.androidauthority.com/lifetime-plex-pass-price-increase-3668716/

INTEL-LIGENT DESIGN

I REALLY hope the Intel Grandma guy from reddit kept his stocks

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1ehjuzj/i_bought_700k_worth_of_intel_stock_today/

They’ve got a Macbook Neo competitor coming (to China first)

https://www.techspot.com/news/112452-asus-hp-unveil-intel-wildcat-lake-laptops-starting.html

https://wccftech.com/intel-drags-partners-into-a-unified-wildcat-lake-blueprint-as-project-firefly-standardizes-laptop-designs-to-tackle-macbook-neo/

AND even Apple is asking them to help make chips

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/apple-explores-using-intel-and-samsung-to-build-main-device-chips-in-the-us

Stocks up!

https://lmg.gg/b221x

FACTOR FRICTION

Microsoft is scrapping SMS 2-factor authentication because it's "a leading source of fraud"

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/05/19/microsoft-is-killing-sms-codes-for-microsoft-account-sign-in-aggressively-pushes-passkeys-on-windows-11/

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-is-scrapping-sms-2-factor-authentication-because-its-a-leading-source-of-fraud/

https://ca.pcmag.com/security/15733/microsoft-is-ditching-sms-2fa-login-codes-prioritizing-passkeys-instead

HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES

Open AI is threatening legal action against apple

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/openai-apple-partnership-frays-setting-up-possible-legal-fight

Because they didn’t help ChatGPT get enough users https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/technology/openai-apple-legal-action.html

Given that open AI is reportedly launching a phone, competing directly with apple - https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/openai-said-to-be-making-phone-with-ai-agents-to-replace-apps/

And apple is contending with a class action lawsuit around how shitty the ChatGPT fueled apple intelligence was who can blame them - https://mashable.com/article/apple-class-action-settlement-iphone-models

Altman lied about the number of users loopt had - https://www.reuters.com/article/business/loopt-was-a-lemon-dropping-to-just-500-daily-active-users-prior-to-sale-update-idUS2505978580/

COSMIC CAPITALISM

Russia’s plan to advertise on rockets and spacecraft takes off

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/russias-plan-to-advertise-on-rockets-and-spacecraft-takes-off/

Russian reporting