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Start: 2026-05-22T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Chabad Center for Jewish Life

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Celebrate Shavuot <ul><li>Start the Shavuot Holiday with “Sleepless in Newport” - Thursday, May 21 for an all night Torah Study learn-a-thon! “All the questions your mother told you not to ask!” </li><li>The fun continues the next day, Friday, May 22 @ 5:00 PM join us for a full dairy dinner. Did you say cheesecake and ice cream… With a dose of the 10 Commandments and fun for the kids! Visit <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FJewishNewport.com%2FShavuot%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExeTB4NUdmVnBQNkpjMXlBQnNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4evCxuq3vK5hJ4UNQ-B4ppgA48hMWmGuHRfw_UNgI5HfAfktl4uxjAiVeKwA_aem_Wx6Cg2fOTvWWIjyXiV7dEw&amp;h=AUD-NtxqxPyIzvl4pc_bWBpxhf4d9k-sIiUh1lobJXr_J3LnhbDSKxDQaJku3fGHvncsHgRs49UFXZd6flt4OBgsX8Bt-8r3m1xpBw_zBU15Q7N3b62M_T9rp2SjR7ZvxlfQl_2g51TF9Q&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AUA6A7_c43XoDWTeZzC0J5pReVJxHYm9vlH-uJNIyrshocqfPZ4SV6TZl5z0-SelF-qh6fAHoIgks0M8R9D0UpMGf8XhKgvwrKYU2kG-L9tflQEdPM_k1jgI8FXSlDnECbnWqBDidcvLvH60SwV9-u-sWkcBIC2FvMOGm3vfAbiyQUEwlzaKCgJf45tOn3k" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">JewishNewport.com/Shavuot</a> for more info and to RSVP</li></ul>

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The Academy for the Performing Arts’s MMET Program at Huntington Beach High School is excited to present its second annual fundraiser performance at Campus Jax! As Huntington Beach’s leading popular music program, MMET showcases outstanding student musicians from Huntington Beach, highlighting the incredible young talent right here in Orange County. Join us for a lively night featuring classic rock, funk, contemporary favorites, and original music performed by these talented artists. This special end-of-year show celebrates the program’s honors class, recently returned from a successful tour in Los Angeles. There will be other special student performances by other MMET bands. Come out and support these incredible students—you won’t want to miss it!
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Cambridge, MA's tech and research community has reason to pay attention on May 19 — Google's anticipated unified multimodal video model could reshape workflows from MIT classrooms to Kendall Square startups.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA — If you work in or around Cambridge's tech ecosystem — whether you're at MIT, Harvard, a Kendall Square startup, or one of the dozens of AI labs that have made this city one of the densest concentrations of artificial intelligence research in the world — May 19 is a date worth marking on your calendar.
On that day, Google is widely expected to announce <a href="https://gemini-omni.ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gemini Omni</a> at its annual I/O developer conference. Based on leaked materials circulating across April and May, the new model represents Google's most aggressive push into consumer and enterprise AI video generation to date, with capabilities that go significantly beyond what is publicly available today. For Cambridge's research, education, and startup communities — many of whom rely on multimodal AI as core infrastructure — the implications are meaningful.
<h2>Why This Launch Matters to Cambridge Specifically</h2>
Cambridge has a particularly engaged stake in AI video generation for three reasons.
First, the city's research community is uniquely positioned to evaluate the model on launch day. MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the MIT Media Lab, Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society have all produced foundational work on generative AI, multimodal learning, and the broader societal implications of these systems. Cambridge researchers will be among the first to publish rigorous evaluations of what Gemini Omni can and cannot actually do — separate from Google's marketing claims.
Second, the startup density in Kendall Square means hundreds of local companies are weighing AI tooling decisions on a quarterly basis. Whether you're building an enterprise SaaS product at the Cambridge Innovation Center, running a creator-economy platform out of Central Square, or scaling a vertical AI application out of a Harvard Square coworking space, the question of which AI video infrastructure to build on is increasingly relevant. Gemini Omni's launch will reshape that decision space, particularly for teams that previously defaulted to OpenAI's API.
Third, Cambridge's educational institutions are some of the most active experimenters with AI-augmented learning tools in the country. From MIT's open courseware initiatives to Harvard Extension School's online programs to the Cambridge Public Schools' digital learning experiments, instructional designers across the city are actively evaluating which generative AI tools belong in production educational workflows. Gemini Omni's anticipated capabilities — particularly around multilingual text rendering and temporal coherence in instructional demonstrations — make it a serious candidate for educational use.
<h2>What the Leaks Suggest</h2>
Several leaked materials are worth understanding before the keynote.
On May 11, screenshots began circulating showing pop-ups inside Google's Gemini application reading, "Create with Gemini Omni: meet our new video model. Remix your videos, edit directly in chat, try a template, and more." Metadata strings referencing "VEO_MODE_OMNI" appeared in client-side network traffic around the same time. The pop-ups were quickly removed, consistent with the kind of accidental feature flag activation that typically occurs in the final weeks before a major launch.
A separate leaked demo, widely discussed in developer Discord channels including several with significant Cambridge representation, showed a professor writing a trigonometric proof on a chalkboard. The temporal consistency — chalk strokes leaving realistic residue, the proof rendering sequentially rather than appearing fully formed — represents a step forward in what AI researchers call "world-state coherence."
Reports from a Gemini AI Pro subscriber showed approximately 86 percent of the daily compute quota consumed by two short video generations, suggesting the model is computationally expensive at consumer-tier access. Independent estimates place the per-inference cost at 12 to 20 times current production video models like Veo 3.1.
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You’ve heard them, and you’ve seen them… but now you can hear and see them in a whole new light! Crystal Lewis and Tony Guerrero take the stage together as a duo… along with their alter egos, Cristal y Miguel. Honestly, anything could happen…and quite possibly will. What you can bank on, though, are killer musicians, stellar vocals and lots of laughs!
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Simon Says Revue officially formed in late 2023, always lively, and upbeat, appealing to young and old alike.
Since the early 2000s, Glen Lystne and crew had been entertaining Southern California when it became obvious that Paul Simon's music was definitely a great fit! Thus Simon Says Revue was born!
Frontman, Glen Lystne and crew have been the supporting act for the likes of Men at Work, Eric Burden and the Animals, Loverboy, Johnny Rivers, Larry Carlton, Hal Ketchum, Blood Sweat and Tears, and many more and now are making their debut appearance at Campus JAX in Newport Beach, OCs premier tribute band venue!
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Born and raised in Orange County, California, Alexis Silva is a seventeen-year-old, second-degree black belt, who always had a vision for community service and a passion for music. In 2023, she faced-off against an adrenal gland tumor that changed the course of her life, leading her to write, sing, and record the The Fight's Not Over Yet. She did this just days before her grueling, eight-hour surgery to remove the tumor her physicians believed to be cancerous. Only 30 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with these tumors per year.
This powerful and frightening experience compelled her even more to dedicate herself and her new life to those less fortunate, especially those facing the threat of cancer. She felt she had a second chance at life and every time she looks at her scar, she remembers the thoughts and the prayers that helped her and now desires to pass those prayers and feelings of hope to others. She wishes to do that, not only through her foundation, but through her music.
Alexis is exceptionally grateful to the kind, talented artists &amp; athletes who took time from their busy schedules to give words of encouragement to her. Those videos and phone calls of kind words changed her life in a highly positive way. The wonderful people who helped her include Dionne Warwick, Billy Ray Cyrus, Firerose, Gladys Knight, Mike Tyson, Dianne Warren, Sofia Carson, Donnie McClurkin, the talented kids from Hits! The Musical, Brice Young, Trenton Irwin, and Alicia Newman. The individuals were extremely inspirational, further strengthening her belief that she could overcome all the odds stacked against her.
Alexis has released her debut EP 555 and is continuing to build momentum with a new wave of music. She’s currently gearing up for several upcoming releases, with Me Myself and I marking the first single of 2026 and the beginning of her next chapter. A prolific songwriter with a constantly evolving sound, Alexis is always writing and creating, with new material already in motion and more releases on the way. Can’t make it live? Join the live stream at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CampusJaxLive" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youtube.com/@CampusJaxLive</a><a href="https://eventvesta.com/events/135184/t/tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View Tickets</a> &amp; More info

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INNERVOX is the Women's Jazz Ensemble from Orange Coast College and features some of Orange County's Finest Pop Vocal Singers. &nbsp; InnerVox brings the warmth, sophistication, and harmonic beauty of women’s vocal jazz to the Campus JAX stage. Directed by acclaimed Southern California vocalist Anne Walsh, this all-female vocal ensemble blends lush group harmonies, swinging jazz phrasing, Brazilian-influenced colors, and fresh interpretations of timeless standards. With a sound that is elegant, expressive, and always inviting, InnerVox celebrates the power of voices in harmony—delivering an evening of music that is intimate, joyful, and beautifully suited for a unique, live experience.
Can’t make it live? Join the live stream at<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@JAXHideaway" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/@JAXHideaway</a><a href="https://eventvesta.com/events/145226/t/tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View Tickets</a> &amp; More info

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