Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. 2025 saw new AI browsers popping up left and right… But users didn’t seem too eager to make the switch.
Google is betting they won't have to, announcing new Gemini upgrades to Chrome that bring agentic browsing and more to a browser that already dominates the market — a default advantage that no amount of AI-first features can easily overcome.
In today’s AI rundown:
Google brings more agentic AI to Chrome
DeepMind’s science behind AlphaGenome
Moltbot (Clawdbot) installation guide & how to use it
Two new labs raise big to rethink how AI learns
4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
Image source: Google
The Rundown: Google just announced a wave of AI upgrades and Gemini integrations into its Chrome browser, including the addition of agentic browsing, built-in image generation, Personal Intelligence, and more.
The details:
Auto Browse controls Chrome in its own tab, clicking through sites and completing tasks— also pausing before sensitive actions like payments.
Gemini now lives in a persistent sidebar, letting users ask questions, compare products across tabs, and leverage Google apps like Gmail and Calendar.
New Nano Banana integration lets users create images directly in the browser, with Personal Intelligence also coming soon for more personalized answers.
Why it matters: There’s been no shortage of AI-first browser competition (OpenAI’s Atlas, Perplexity’s Comet, Dia, etc.) over the past year, but adoption has mostly been lacking — leaving Google with the perfect opportunity to simply continue weaving Gemini into its dominant Chrome platform and integrating deeper with its apps.
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GOOGLE DEEPMIND
Image source: Google DeepMind
The Rundown: Google DeepMind just published the full research paper and model weights for AlphaGenome, its AI tool unveiled this summer that scans a million letters of genetic code to predict how mutations cause disease.
The details:
AlphaGenome was trained on vast genetic datasets and can predict how a single DNA typo affects 11 different biological processes.
In tests, it flagged mutations linked to leukemia that sat thousands of letters away from the affected gene, connections that took researchers years to find.
Why it matters: AlphaFold won the Nobel Prize for cracking protein structure, and now Google is taking on the challenge of understanding what 98% of our DNA does. It's not a "solved" problem like proteins, but giving researchers open access to a map for the genetic code could ramp discovery in ways we're only beginning to imagine.
AI TRAINING
The Rundown: In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install and set up Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot), an autonomous AI agent that gets smarter over time and can proactively handle tasks like messaging, browsing, and even deploying websites.
Step-by-step:
Generate a Brave Search API key, a fresh AI model key (OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini), and create a new Telegram bot using BotFather
Install Node.js v22+, install Moltbot CLI, and run the onboarding wizard using Quickstart, enabling Brave search and selecting Telegram as the bot’s channel
Complete the intro wizard (define its name, vibe, etc.) to initialize your Moltbot, then search for its username on TG and send a message to receive pairing code
Approve the pairing in your terminal using the provided command, and start chatting with your Moltbot directly in Telegram as your always-on assistant
Pro tip: Install Moltbot on a secondary, wiped machine, then gradually add skills one at a time. This helps the agent learn cleanly and keeps your primary system safe.
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AI STARTUPS
Image source: Flapping Airplanes / Jerry Tworek
The Rundown: Two AI startups emerged with big investor interest, betting on new AI model paths that diverge from current standards — with Flapping Airplanes raising $180M and ex-OAI’s Jerry Tworek seeking up to $1B for his Core Automation venture.
The details:
Flapping Airplanes secured funding at a $1.5B valuation, aiming to train AI that matches human intelligence “without ingesting half the entire internet.”
Flapping Airplanes lists Andrej Karpathy and Jeff Dean as advisors, leaning into what Sequoia called the "young person's AGI lab" approach.
Tworek, who left OAI this month, wants to build AI that learns continuously from real-world experience, a capability current systems lack.
Tworek plans to focus on a single continual learning model called Ceres, with ambitions ranging from automating factories to eventually terraforming planets.
Why it matters: With top AI researchers openly questioning whether scaling alone can reach AGI, this new wave of startups is a serious contrarian bet against the $200B+ frontier labs. It's a high-risk play, but investors are pouring billions into the chance that one of these teams cracks the code that the big AI leaders might be missing.
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Anthropic is reportedly raising $20B at a $350B valuation, doubling its original target after demand reached 6x what was expected.
Google added Agentic Vision to Gemini 3 Flash, letting the model zoom, annotate, and edit images to answer questions and boosting accuracy 5-10% on visual tasks.
Mistral upgraded its terminal coding agent Vibe to version 2.0, adding custom subagents and workflow skills for developers on its $15-per-month Pro and Team plans.
Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan said he believes there is a 50% chance the world’s top theoretical physicists will be “mostly replaced” with AI in the next 3 years.
China reportedly approved ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase over 400k Nvidia H200s, easing a key AI chip bottleneck amid ongoing U.S. tech tensions.
COMMUNITY
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 Nikolaos A. in Clifton, VA:
"I wanted to do renovations to a house I purchased recently. I am building a system of multiple agents, each with a specialty, such as plumbing, concrete/masonry, electrical, etc. These do research on materials and best practices for accomplishing a task.
Additionally, I have an agent that orchestrates the work by routing prompts to one or more agents. Finally, the orchestration agent builds a project book with all the information needed to accomplish the project. I can also upload images that are scanned by a vision model to add to the requirements of a task."
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That's it for today!
See you soon,
Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown
