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Last night's Google I/O announcements — a rundown

Personally, I think it's worth always keeping tabs on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, so sharing this here~

You can read it here！

~~~Here's the summary~~~

🔥 1. Your New Crew That "Automates Life Behind the Scenes, 24/7"

The biggest headline this time is "agentification" — AI working on its own even while we're asleep with our phones put away.

👥【Gemini Spark】

Your personal assistant that never sleeps, never stops ③

What's the big deal?:

Until now, AI only "answered when asked."

But Spark's thing is that it "moves on its own, behind the scenes"!

Why it's fire🔥:

Even when your phone is closed, it's out there on its own — circulating through emails, chats, and your schedule.

"Summarize the meeting notes, drop them into Google Docs, and have the email draft ready to go" — complex tasks like that, finished in the background without you lifting a finger.

🌅【Daily Brief】

Start every morning with your personal "summary" ④

What's the big deal?:

The moment you wake up, AI automatically sorts through your inbox, calendar, and tasks.

Why it's fire🔥:

It arrives like "your personal morning paper" — one glance and you know exactly what needs to happen today!

🧠【Android Halo & Gemini Intelligence】

Your phone, fully on autopilot ⑳・㉓

What's the big deal?:

Gemini merges completely into Android's deep layer — the OS itself.

Why it's fire🔥:

Just say out loud "Send ○○-san that photo from yesterday on LINE and add it to my calendar" — and it executes across apps automatically. The top of your phone screen (Halo) shows in real time exactly what the AI is working on behind the scenes.

🛒 2. Features that Make Daily "Online Life" Dramatically Easier

Search, shopping, watching videos — your everyday internet habits are about to enter a whole new dimension.

🔍【AI Search Evolution】

Search goes from "Googling" to "set it and forget it" ⑩

What's the big deal?:

Search gets agentified.

Why it's fire🔥:

Just throw it out there — "Find me a recommended hotel for my upcoming trip, within a budget of ○万円." AI collects information in the background around the clock and has the best answer ready for you.

🛒【Universal Cart】

A revolution in online shopping ⑨

What's the big deal?: Carts from different shopping sites (Amazon, Rakuten, apparel sites, etc.) all in one place!

Why it's fire🔥: Everything you've favorited across the internet gets pulled into one unified Google cart. That stress of jumping back and forth between sites? Gone completely.

📺【Ask YouTube】

The way you find videos is changing ⑪

What's the big deal?: YouTube's entire search experience gets a full overhaul!

Why it's fire🔥:

"What's the gist of what they're saying around the 3-minute mark in this video?" or "Pull together videos with a similar vibe to this one" — you can search and ask questions about content in that casual, conversational way humans actually think.

👓 3. The "Look" and "Feel" of Gadgets and Apps Is Changing

Future devices and the apps you use every day are getting a refresh too.

🕶️【Android XR Smart Glasses】 Coming this fall! ⑧

What's the big deal?:

Real-deal smart glasses in collab with major eyewear brands (Gentle Monster / Warby Parker)!

Why it's fire🔥: Starting with a screenless version — "Gemini whispering in your ear." It recognizes which direction you're walking and gives you voice navigation, translates signs right in front of you, and lets you order your Starbucks by voice without ever pulling out your phone.

🎨【Neural Expressive】 The Gemini app's look gets an upgrade ⑤

What's the big deal?:

Gemini's app design gets a complete overhaul built for the AI era.

Why it's fire🔥: Smoother animations, satisfying haptic feedback when you tap — a UI that makes you feel like you're living in the future just by touching it.

🎨 4. Creative & Foundation Upgrades (Bonus--But Huge!)

Tech that lets "everyone become a creator" — and the massive speed boost powering it all.

⚡【Gemini 3.5 Flash】 Blazing fast, the new free standard ①

What's the big deal?: The new AI at the foundation of everything this time. Runs at "4x the speed" — leaving everything else in the dust.

Why it's fire🔥: The "wait time" on our phones basically disappears. Already being rolled out as the standard model across apps.

🎬【Gemini Omni】 A new way to make video ②

What's the big deal?: Just mix text, photos, video, and voice instructions, and it generates realistic video that actually understands the laws of physics.

Why it's fire🔥: You can edit conversationally — "just change the background." Movie-quality video, starting with something as accessible as YouTube Shorts.

💡 Wrap Up: What's the "Oh Wow" for us?

Bringing the "craziness" of these announcements down to everyday level… 👇

① 【Gemini 3.5 Flash】 4x faster than other cutting-edge AI, at less than half the price

② 【Gemini Omni】 Feed in text, photos, and video — get movie-quality output

③ 【Gemini Spark】 An AI agent working in your place, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

④ 【Daily Brief】 Every morning, auto-sorts your inbox, calendar, and tasks and delivers it all to you

⑤ 【Neural Expressive】 Complete redesign of the Gemini app UI for the AI era

⑥ 【Google Pics】 Create pro-quality images with zero design knowledge

⑦ 【Stitch】 Build app designs in real time through conversation with AI

⑧ 【Android XR Smart Glasses】 Coming this fall. Collab with Gentle Monster & Warby Parker ⑨ 【Universal Cart】 A unified shopping cart across all of Google

⑩ 【AI Search Evolution】 Search gets agentified — collecting information in the background around the clock

⑪ 【Ask YouTube】 Complete overhaul of the YouTube search experience

⑫ 【Docs Live】 Just talk through "what's in your head" and Google Docs writes itself

⑬ 【SynthID Expansion】 Technology to identify AI-generated content becomes the industry standard

⑭ 【Gemini for Science】 AI for scientific research, linked to 30+ life science databases

⑮ 【8th-Gen TPU】 3x the computing power of the previous generation. Distributed training across 1 million+ units

⑯ 【Project Genie × Street View】 20 years of real-world imagery used to generate virtual worlds

⑰ 【Google Flow】 AI agents handle complex video production workflows

⑱ 【Google Flow Music】 Just hum the riff in your head and get a pro-quality track

⑲ 【Google AI Ultra $100 Plan】 New $100/month plan. Previous $250 tier also drops to $200 ⑳ 【Android Halo】 Check AI agent activity in real time at the top of your phone screen

㉑【Pomelli】 AI tool for brand content creation and website building

㉒【Googlebook (Aluminium OS)】 New laptop with Android and ChromeOS merged into one ㉓【Gemini Intelligence】 Gemini integrated into Android's OS layer — executes tasks across apps

㉔【Google AI Studio】 Native Android coding support and mobile app added

Tsuru-chan purchased my art! Thank you so much!

I can't wait to framing it.

Yesterday was Nao Yokoyama-san's lecture

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Yokoyama-san's Lecture Notes｜

① Self-Introduction

From Shizuoka, 8 years in Malaysia → moved to Okinawa.

Founded株式会社月曜日 (Monday Inc.) in 2006. Acquired an Okinawa retreat facility and an old farmhouse in Okayama — both by being "called" to them. Everything moves with the feeling of "being made to do it (going with the flow of the universe)," with the business model figured out after the fact.

②The Theory of Consciousness Levels (Power vs. Force)

Dr. Hawkins' kinesiology-based consciousness map (1–1000 scale) is at the core.

　- Below 200: shame, guilt, fear, desire, anger → difficulty taking action, attracts unhappiness

　- 200 and above: courage, neutrality, willingness, reason, love → able to act, results follow

　- 600 and above: said to activate paranormal abilities (materialization, teleportation)

Marketing tactics that "stoke anxiety and fear" get 2x the response per prospect theory — but the downside is they attract low-consciousness clients.

＊Recommended: use O-ring testing to know your own level and find out how to move forward

③The Soul's Story and Mission

　- Everyone "agreed to the story of this lifetime before being born"

　- Finding your mission: divination (Four Pillars of Destiny, etc.) · people who can see things · using ChatGPT's memory feature

　- When you're aligned with your mission, you enter a state of "fun · strong · sustainable" — and results follow

　- Confucius: "know → like → enjoy" — strength grows in that order = no one can beat someone who's having fun

④ How to Build Luck (Funai Yukio's theory)

　- An organization's results are 100% determined by the luck of the person at the top

　- Being "lucky" = being in a high-consciousness state

　- In practice: meditation · shrine visits · high-energy places · spending time with high-energy people

　- Case study: using a TimeWaver (quantum wave device) led to annual revenue going from ¥150M → ¥1.4B

⑤Quantum Entanglement and Somatids

　- Quantum entanglement: connected beings influence each other (Buddhism's "dependent origination"--Engi)

　- A coach's certainty is transmitted to the client; a creator's state reaches their readers

　- Somatids: microscopic living entities in the blood. The higher the consciousness level, the more there are — the source of immunity and energy

　- Microbial farming (Kin-chan farming method) · hot springs · high-energy land — all linked to somatids

⑥The Role of the Japanese People (Dr. Hawkins 2008 Interview)

　- The average consciousness level of Japanese people is 400+ (outstandingly high on a global scale)

　- One high-consciousness person can counterbalance hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of others around them

　- Japan is "the only country capable of selfless service" → can become a leader to the world

　- Humor is essential for raising consciousness (a point emphasized by both Hawkins and Yogananda)

⑦Conclusion

Living your mission = running on the White Engine

Raise consciousness → a good attract field is created → ideal clients gather → the consciousness of the entire world rises.

Everything is connected through quantum entanglement, and one person's rise in consciousness connects directly to world peace — a unified worldview.

Taught to us by Hiroyuki Irie-san!

AI you need to learn from 3 YouTube videos

https://youtu.be/airbxOE8PyQ?si=HNJu6Slgi3JDD2pw

https://youtu.be/sv0sxYhmIyg?si=DftIK0jWa0YQrlna

https://youtu.be/K1JBWvTIc2Y?si=ch8AEBSyonrwyngm

↓↓Summary

Video 1:『It Gets Decided This Year — Managers: Dead Weight or Conductor? The Changes Already Happening in Silicon Valley』

In an era where AI agents (systems that can complete tasks autonomously) are becoming widespread, this video breaks down the fork in the road: will managers and leaders become "dead weight" — or "orchestra conductors"?

The arrival of the AI agent era and common failure patterns Many companies fail by trying to force AI into existing workflows. The key to success is redesigning workflows "from scratch" with human-AI role division built in from the start.

The manager's new role: the "Delegate-Review-Own" model Introducing a new management model proposed by CIO Magazine. Delegate: Hand off routine tasks and data processing to AI. Review: Don't micromanage — only check the parts that require strategic judgment. Own: Final decisions and responsibility for AI-caused mistakes rest with the manager.

Human experience is the greatest value AI learns from past data — but it cannot know office politics, organizational context, or tacit knowledge that was never digitized. Even if younger generations master AI tools, only humans with accumulated experience can judge "what should be done" and "where the risks are."

Video 2:『I'll Give You 3,000 Hours of Conclusions in 20 Minutes — The "Correct AI Stack for 2026" That Silicon Valley Pros Arrived At』

Starting from the premise that "only using one AI like ChatGPT or Gemini is already outdated," this video presents a concrete optimal solution: the "AI stack (team)" — using the right tools in the right places.

Planning & Strategy Stack Perplexity (research): Gathers highly reliable information with sources cited. Gemini 3 Flash (reasoning & planning): Uses deliberation mode to simultaneously output a logical schedule (spreadsheet) and visual imagery. Napkin.ai (expression): Instantly converts text into professional-looking diagrams and flowcharts.

Writing & Expression Stack Claude Opus 4.5: Unmatched ability to pick up on subtle Japanese nuance, emotion, and context — the top choice for writing.

App Development Stack V0 (design): Instantly generates and adjusts the look of screens (UI). Cursor (coding environment): Claude Opus 4.5 built in as the top-tier brain — writes all the backend logic from Japanese instructions.

Video 3:『A 17-Year Silicon Valley Pro Goes All-In on AI Agents and Shows You Everything』

The creator reveals the real system behind their own business "Kuuki Design" — how they've organized 18 specialized AI agents and have them running 12+ hours a day.

The limits of making one AI do everything Pack too much context into a single session and the output becomes inconsistent, hallucinations increase, and quality control stops working. That's why AI also needs to be "specialized" and "organized."

Applying the "4 elements of organization" humans have built over thousands of years — to AI The fundamentals of an efficiently running organization, transplanted directly into an AI system. Specialists: Divide roles in detail — tech lead, QA, brand voice checker, etc. Review culture: Build a system where deliverables are checked by other AIs or humans across multiple stages. Hand off through documentation: Rather than having agents talk directly to each other, use a shared "task management board" or notes (Obsidian) to leave async logs. Clear ownership: Define explicitly — "this far is AI's call, beyond this is human judgment."

The biggest benefit: achieving "quality control that's impossible solo" AI agents autonomously run QA, clean up, and assign tasks in the middle of the night — so even when humans aren't working, the system's quality keeps improving. Enterprise-level quality control becomes possible even for a solo business.

💡 Overall Summary Across All 3 Videos

Going forward, there will be a massive gap in results between people who use AI merely as "a chat tool" — and people who build systems where specialized AIs are combined and run autonomously using the same structures as human organizations (shared task boards, document management, multi-stage reviews).

And the faster AI processing speeds become, the less humans will be asked to handle detailed execution work — and the more we'll be asked to be conductors: designing the overall division of roles, factoring in tacit knowledge and context that was never digitized, and steering final strategic decisions.

Yesterday we had a Yakiimo video shoot！