AI Acquisition Wave and How Pinecone Tests Agent Skills Using Claude and Modal

A lot happened in the last two weeks of AI news and at Pinecone, and Roie, Jenna, and Arjun break it all down. From Karpathy's move to Anthropic and a wave of AI acquisitions to Google IO's biggest announcements, they cover what matters and why. Arjun demos Skill Eval, an internal Pinecone tool for building, testing, and grading agent skills in sandboxed parallel environments using Claude and Modal. He does a live walk-through on the new Pinecone full text search skill and Jenna shares how she used it to build the new n8n-Pinecone skill. They also give updates on Pinecone Nexus Early Access and the Pinecone Marketplace. Resources: 🔗 Pinecone Skills repo: https://github.com/pinecone-io/skills 🔗 Use Pinecone with agentic IDEs and CLIs: https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/get-started/ai-coding-tools 🔗 Pinecone Nexus Early Access: https://www.pinecone.io/lp/nexus-ea/ 🔗 Get started with Pinecone Marketplace: https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/marketplace/quickstart Follow Roie Schwaber-Cohen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roiecohen/ https://twitter.com/RoieSchwabco Follow Arjun Patel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunkirtipatel/ Follow Jenna Pederson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennapederson/ https://twitter.com/jennapederson https://www.instagram.com/jennanerdsout/ Follow Pinecone: https://twitter.com/pinecone https://www.linkedin.com/company/pinecone-io/ https://discord.gg/qwQPPPZ4nz 0:00 Intro and recent AI news roundup 2:00 Anthropic acquires Stainless and shuts it down 7:25 Mistral and Cohere acquisitions, vertical AI plays 11:00 Consulting arms, Code with Claude event, and the adoption gap 16:00 Google IO: Gemini 2.5 Flash speed benchmarks 19:30 Gemini Omni and the world model vision 26:30 AI Search, Gemini Spark, and smart eyewear 38:20 Pinecone Nexus and Marketplace updates 40:20 Live demo: Skill Eval tool for building and testing agent skills #Pinecone #AINews #GoogleIO #Anthropic #AIAgents