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In this episode, we discuss Google expanding ads in AI Mode to ten more countries and launching multiturn Sponsored ads inside follow-up conversations. We also cover Google's new Connected Apps Platform, which gives developers a single MCP-based route into Gemini and Google Search. Next, we break down NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight, promptable speech model that handles transcription, speaker identification, translation, and language detection across 40 languages. Finally, we look at Mistral releasing the open weights for its upgraded Mistral Large 4 model, aimed at cybersecurity teams who want to run AI on their own hardware, and what its independent ranking and modified MIT license mean for developers.
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