📱 Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps

🦾Plus: 🧮 OpenAI cracks an 80-year math belief

May 21, 2026

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In today's edition: Here's your essential roundup of Google's no-code Android app builder, Cohere's open-source model, and OpenAI's IPO.👇

  • ‍‍⚡Best 7 Real-time Data Ingestion Tools for Snowflake

  • 📘 Gemini 3.5 Flash Developer Guide

  • 🏗️Making Our Monorepo Ergonomic for Agents

  • 🔓Cohere ships its first fully open-source AI model
    🚀 OpenAI Lines Up an IPO

  • ⚡️ Pharma giant bets on Claude

  • 💡AI Tutorial: How to Enable Codex Mobile Control on Windows

  • 🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes. You can type your app idea, and Google AI Studio can help turn it into a real Android app. You don’t need to set up many tools first. This makes it easier for beginners and creators to test app ideas faster.‍‍

Q1 2026: $20.8B in BDC Redemption Requests. 0.44% Lifetime Net Loss Rate on Percent.

In Q1 2026, the non-traded BDC market hit $20.8B in redemption requests — most investors received roughly half of what they asked for. Moody's revised the U.S. BDC sector outlook to Negative. Investors who thought they owned liquid private credit found out their fund manager decided whether they could get out.

On Percent's marketplace that same quarter: new issuances, scheduled payments, and a 0.44% lifetime net loss rate on asset-based deals that's held since inception.†

The difference is structural. BDCs often own concentrated corporate loans with quarterly redemption windows that close at the manager's discretion. Percent finances specialty lenders against pools of performing receivables — diversified, overcollateralized, short duration.

Track record through 3/31/26:†

  • 14.6% net ABS returns LTM after losses

  • 0.44% lifetime net loss rate since inception (asset-based deals)

  • $1.62B+ in ABS originations

  • 870+ offerings completed

  • Deal terms 6–24 months · Starting at $500

Alternative investments are speculative. No assurance can be given that investors will receive a return of their capital. Secondary market transactions are subject to availability and issuer approval; liquidity is not guaranteed. †Past performance is not indicative of future results. Terms apply.

These seven platforms represent the most relevant shapes this category takes today. Some are built around continuous CDC into Snowflake. Some are stronger in orchestration and transformation. Some are more clearly enterprise ingestion platforms. Together, they form a useful shortlist for teams trying to keep Snowflake current, reliable, and operationally sustainable.

Gemini 3.5 Flash is now generally available. This guide contains an overview of improvements, API changes, and migration guidance for the model. Gemini 3.5 Flash features Thinking, structured outputs with tools, multimodal function responses, code execution with images, and combined tool use, but not Computer Use. It delivers sustained frontier performance in agentic execution, coding, and long-horizon tasks at scale.

Code agents have their own failure modes, appetite for context, and demands on what counts as a well-organized repository. Companies need to take this seriously as the work to make a repository ergonomic for agents is bigger than expected, and the principles are non-obvious. However, the payoff is substantial. This article looks at how Basis made its codebase ergonomic for agents in three months using principles rooted in verifiability, interoperability, and canonical context.

The Canadian AI lab just dropped Command A+, a 218B parameter model designed for complex reasoning and agent-based tasks. What makes this release unique is its Apache 2.0 license, which allows teams to fine-tune, deploy, and commercialize the model without any restrictions. It also includes native citations that link claims directly to source data.

Claude is not just a chatbot anymore. Is your security team ready?

Claude.ai is one thing. Agentic workflows, MCP connections, ungoverned skills taking actions across your data? That's a different conversation — and most security teams aren't equipped for it.

Harmonic Security gives your CISO the visibility and controls to say yes confidently.

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

Sintra: The AI "dream team" for overwhelmed operators. Access 12+ specialized agents that handle marketing, sales, ops, and much more for you - no prompting experience required.

Jampack
Optimizes static websites for best user experience and best Core Web Vitals scores.

Thor is different from most AI assistants: it reaches out to you, not the other way around. It monitors your Slack threads and meetings, spots action items, and surfaces them before they get dropped

AI Strategy Summit: On 6/4, from 12-4 PM ET, join Scott Galloway and Section to learn everything you need to scale enterprise-wise AI orchestration. You’ll walk away with the playbook to turn data, processes, and people into connected, augmented, AI powerhouses.

AI News:

The ChatGPT maker is preparing a confidential filing with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, with a draft prospectus possibly submitted as early as Friday. Recent private rounds valued OpenAI near $850B, and an IPO could push that past $1 trillion.

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This morning, roughly 8,000 Meta employees logged onto their work accounts to find out they’re being laid off. The cuts are the first wave of a major restructuring the company has framed as “necessary to fund its push into AI.” The cuts amount to about 10% of the company’s workforce and come alongside upward of 7,000 workers redirected into newly created AI-focused teams.

OpenAI just announced that an internal general reasoning model disproved a long-held belief tied to Erdős’ famous 1946 unit distance problem, claiming to have accomplished a first for AI in novel math discovery. Erdős’ 1946 unit distance problem asks how many same-length links you can draw between dots, with a grid-based theory shaping the field for 80 years.

Biopharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb is deploying Anthropic's Claude across its 30,000+ person workforce for drug discovery, clinical development, and corporate operations, the companies announced Wednesday.

The new chip delivers 3x the performance of its predecessor, with 144GB memory and 800GB/s bandwidth. It’s already in 560,000 units across 400+ customers, and Qwen3.7-Max is coming next. The Zhenwu M890 delivers three times the performance of the current Zhenwu 810E, Alibaba said, adding that the new processor has 144 GB GPU memory and interchip bandwidth of 800 GB per second.

AI Tutorial

How to Enable Codex Mobile Control on Windows

Codex mobile control is officially only available on macOS, but it turns out the feature already exists on Windows. It's just not enabled by default. Here's how to activate it:

  1. Open the Codex app on Windows and go to Settings.

  2. Under Configuration, click Open config.toml.

  3. Add these lines to the file, then save it:

[features]
remote_control = true

  1. Make the config.toml file read-only:

  • Open the file location in Windows (usually C:\Users\[your username]\.codex)

  • Right-click config.toml and select Properties

  • Check the Read-only box

  • Click Apply

  1. Restart Codex.

  2. Your phone should now be able to connect to Codex on Windows.

On 6/4, join Scott Galloway and Section to learn everything you need to scale from individual productivity gains to enterprise-wise AI orchestration. Learn how to scale siloed AI use into organization-wide impact and get the playbook to turn your org into a connected, augmented, AI powerhouse.

🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

  1. AirRankPilot helps local businesses get discovered by Google and AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity

  2. InboxKit is your all-in-one platform for building, managing, and scaling cold-email infrastructure.

  3. CCPayment is a cryptocurrency payment platform allowing merchants to accept and payouts

  4. HuePress is a SaaS platform providing therapy-grade, high-quality printable coloring pages

  5. Creatives Takeover is an AI  platform that turns raw founder ideas into business plans

  6. Pixel‑exact AI image generator composing scenes on fixed canvases

  7. Reelbase - Create Viral TikTok Slideshows in Seconds

  8. Qeeebo is an AI-curated question-and-answer platform built with a clear and ambitious purpose

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