The jury's speedy decision to reject Elon Musk's lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk's case was a weak one, in part because he waited so long to file it.
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Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.
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SSH keys, plaintext passwords, other sensitive data had been up since November 2025.
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Gemini is gaining the power of sight and mobility. Today at the I/O conference, Google and Volvo announced that the AI-powered assistant will be able to access external cameras in the upcoming EX60 SUV to help explain and interpret its surroundings to vehicle owners. The upgrade is possible thanks to Volvo's use of Google's embedded Android Automotive as its vehicle operating system. Google posits that the first use case will be to ask Gemini to translate difficult-to-understand parking signs...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai on stage at I/O 2026. | Screenshot: YouTube Google's I/O 2026 keynote today was once again full of AI-related announcements including a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, new features for Search and Gmail, and updates about its Project Aura smart glasses. If you weren't able to tune into the event's livestream today or follow along with our live blog, you can catch up on everything you missed in our roundup below. Gemini 3.5 Google launched updated AI models at I/O...
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Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.
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Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.
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Google is making a big push into cybersecurity. At I/O, the company announced that it was inviting select groups of experts to test the API for CodeMender, an "AI agent for code security" it debuted last October. The difference is that Google is now making the tool more widely available externally - and marketing it as a way to, as Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu put it, "help secure the world's code bases" by both flagging and fixing vulnerabilities. Anthropic's surprise Claude Mythos...
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Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
At Google I/O 2026, we shared how we’re making AI more helpful for everyone. See everything we announced.
One year after launch, see how AI Mode’s users are shifting from keywords to natural language queries.
Announcing new voice capabilities in Gmail, Docs and Keep, a new design tool called Google Pics and updates to AI Inbox.
The latest from Google I/O: See how we’re helping you get more done with Gemini.
We shared the next step in our journey to bring together the best of a search engine with the best of AI.
Introducing a $100 AI Ultra plan — plus, new features and benefits for Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Google is announcing a major upgrade to one of its vibe coding platforms: Beginning today, you can now use AI Studio to build native Android apps. With Google AI Studio, you can prompt your idea for an app and preview it with an embedded emulator of Android. When you want to try it out on an actual phone, you can connect an Android device to your computer and install it. In the future, you'll also be able to invite app testers from AI Studio. It sounds like you won't be able to whip up just a...
Google is going all in on AI-driven shopping even as some competitors back off. At Google I/O, the company unveiled the latest iteration of its AI commerce tools: a "Universal Cart" that works across different retailers and Google products like Gemini - and eventually YouTube and Gmail, too. Users can add products to Google's universal cart as they browse Search and chat with Gemini and then check out through Google. The cart will also track prices, provide in-stock notifications, suggest po...
Google Search is entering the next phase of its AI evolution. During Google I/O 2026, the company showed off a reimagined search box that makes it easier to flow between AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of search results, and AI Mode, Google's chatbot-like search experience. Powered by the new Gemini 3.5 Flash model, Google's updated search box expands for longer queries, while offering a new AI-powered autocomplete feature to build on your question. Robby Stein...
Google is launching a big new feature for Gmail called Gmail Live, a new AI-powered voice mode that's basically the Gemini Live experience but built specifically for your inbox. To use Gmail Live, tap an icon that will appear in your search bar and just start talking. In a press briefing, a Google employee showed a live demo of the feature where she asked questions about things like events at her kid's school and an upcoming trip to Detroit. Gmail pulled up relevant details in the Gmail Live ...
Google is launching its own take on OpenClaw, the buzzy AI agent platform that caused a stir in the tech industry earlier this year. Announced during Google I/O 2026, Gemini Spark is an always-on AI agent that can write emails for you, create continually updated study guides, monitor credit card statements for hidden subscription fees, and more. Gemini Spark is powered by the newly introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash and runs in the background 24/7 using virtual machines on Google Cloud. The AI agent...
Google is launching a new AI image generation app to Workspace that it's calling Pics, and it has a new feature to try and reduce the hassle of iterating on AI images: Instead of having to write an entire prompt just to change one small aspect of an image, you'll be able to click on what you want to change and leave a note about what you want to see, almost like leaving a comment in a Google Doc. Pics is powered by a mix of Gemini and Google's Nano Banana 2 image model. In a demo shown to rep...
You can soon check for SynthID and C2PA markers directly on your Chrome browser. | Image: The Verge Google is expanding AI detection capabilities to Chrome and Search, with the aim of making it easier for people to identify deepfakes. The updates, announced at Google I/O today, cover not only SynthID - the invisible watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind - but also content embedded with C2PA content credentials, making both systems more accessible for users to learn how the co...
Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.
Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build Android apps faster from the command line.
The tech giant says it's aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why it's launching Universal Cart.
At the I/O developer conference, Google announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.
Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update
Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.
The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a standalone chatbot.
OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.
The tech giant says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.
Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation — starting with Omni Flash.
Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside Antigravity 2.0 launch.
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference, Google announced a sweeping redesign of the search box itself — the literal text field where billions of queries begin every day — transforming it from a simple keyword input into a dynamic, AI-driven conve...