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TNB Tech Minute: Google Debuts New Personal AI Agent

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Andrej Karpathy, a Tesla alum and OpenAI co-founder, joins Anthropic. And Mach Industries has acquired rocket-maker Exquadrum for $50 million. Imani Moise hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall.

0:05.0

It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand.

0:11.3

That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI.

0:17.8

Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.

0:24.6

Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, May 19th. I'm Imani Moise for the Wall Street Journal.

0:32.1

Google has announced Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent, it says it's capable of navigating a user's digital

0:38.5

life and acting on his or her behalf. The tech firm has started rolling out the agent and says

0:43.9

it'll be available next week to subscribers who pay for AI Ultra, a new subscription tier that

0:49.2

costs $100 a month. The tech giant said its Gemini app now has 900 million users, up from 400 million last year.

0:57.7

Google also introduced Gemini Omni, a tool designed to create videos from text, audio, and images.

1:04.3

NewsCorp, the owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a commercial agreement to supply content on Google platforms.

1:10.7

OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla executive Andre Carpathie has joined Anthropic.

1:16.6

He will lead a new group focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research,

1:20.7

which oversees the data training process for the company's AI models.

1:24.9

Until 2022, Carpathie led a team at Tesla overseeing the functionality

1:29.0

of its advanced driver assistance system, autopilot. According to his LinkedIn profile,

1:34.2

he was also a founding research scientist at OpenAI until 2017. News Corp, the owner of the Wall

1:40.2

Street Journal and Dow Jones NewsWires, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI.

1:45.6

And we exclusively report that Dome's startup, Mach Industries, acquired Rocket Maker Exquadrum in April

1:51.8

for $50 million in cash in equity. The previously unreported deal gives Mock access to more than

1:57.6

two decades of technical developments used for superfast weapons that reach beyond

2:02.0

Earth's atmosphere. The acquisition reflects a broader shift in the defense sector, as analysts say

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