2026-05-21: Google rolled out Gemini Spark, a cloud-based AI agent that runs 24/7 across your Google apps and

Show Notes - 2026-05-21 Stories Covered: - Today: (https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/934478/if-google-cant-make-ai-agents-useful-maybe-no-one-can) - IrisGo (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/irisgo-a-startup-backed-by-andrew-ng-looks-to-become-the-ai-desktop-buddy-you-never-knew-you-needed/) - Figma's AI agent (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/figma-adds-an-ai-assistant-to-its-collaborative-canvas/) - Google I/O announcements (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-io-2026-all-our-announcements/) - Ramp's engineering team (https://openai.com/index/ramp) - n8n's guide to event-driven architecture (https://blog.n8n.io/how-to-implement-event-driven-architecture/) - Google's Antigravity CLI (https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/20/google-io/#atom-everything) - Gemini 3.5 Flash pricing (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-io-2026-all-our-announcements/) - Nvidia reported $81.6 billion in revenue (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/nvidia-posts-another-record-quarter-reveals-43-billion-of-holdings-in-startups/) - Nvidia's Vera CPU (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/jensen-huang-says-hes-found-a-brand-new-200b-market-for-nvidia/) - AI search startups raised major rounds (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/ai-search-startups-are-blowing-up/) - Anthropic signed a $1.25B/month cloud services deal (https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/20/spacex-s1/#atom-everything) - Test token speeds before committing to a model. (https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/20/tokens-per-second/#atom-everything) - Automate repetitive desktop tasks with IrisGo. Full brief: https://carolinacleartech.com/ai-brief/2026-05-21/