i watched google tear down the old internet from a hostel room in kolkata
The article discusses the author's experience watching the Google I/O 2026 keynote from a hostel in Kolkata. It highlights the introduction of Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash model, which is designed for more complex, autonomous workflows. The author also describes the impressive capabilities of the Antigravity 2.0 platform demonstrated during the event.
- ▪The Google I/O 2026 keynote showcased significant advancements in AI technology.
- ▪Gemini 3.5 Flash is designed for agentic workflows, allowing it to execute tasks autonomously.
- ▪Antigravity 2.0 demonstrated the ability to build an operating system framework in under 12 hours using 93 parallel agents.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/aniruddhaadak/i-watched-google-tear-down-the-old-internet-from-a-hostel-room-in-kolkata-4h94 |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 16:23:50 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-20T16:35:02.753Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-20T16:35:02.753Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 2407448) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } ANIRUDDHA ADAK Posted on May 20 i watched google tear down the old internet from a hostel room in kolkata #googleiochallenge #devchallenge #ai #gemini Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge Submission This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge it was well past midnight when i finally leaned back and thought: this is not a product update. this is a different kind of computing altogether. the fan on my lenovo was whirring steadily.
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