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Google I/O was AI all the way down, but it's not clear how much will be useful.
Pics, powered by Nano Banana 2, lets users generate images from a text prompt and then move, resize, or translate individual elements without re-rolling the whole composition. Rolling out to Workspace Business Standard and higher, and to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the coming months. Google unveiled Pics at the I/O 2026 developer […]
The first model in DeepMind’s new Omni family will generate and edit video from any combination of image, audio, video, and text inputs. Speech-editing is being withheld; SynthID watermarking is on by default. Google introduced Gemini Omni on Tuesday at the I/O 2026 developer conference, a new multimodal model family from Google DeepMind designed to […]
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Google has a lot to prove, but its smart glasses will have a few big advantages.
Google used the opening keynote of I/O 2026 to unveil a wave of updates to its Gemini app, headlined by a feature called Daily Brief, a personalised morning digest that pulls from a user’s inbox, calendar, and task list to deliver a prioritised overview of the day ahead. The feature does not merely summarise, it also suggests […]
Google has released Android CLI at a stable version 1.0, giving AI coding agents a direct line into Android Studio’s capabilities without ever opening the IDE. The announcement, made at Google I/O 2026 on 19 May, is a frank acknowledgement that many developers now build for Android using third-party AI agents rather than Google’s own tools. The […]
Google announced Gemini Spark at I/O 2026, an always-on agentic AI assistant built on Gemini 3.5 and the Antigravity harness. It runs on dedicated cloud VMs, integrates natively with Gmail and Workspace, and will be available to AI Ultra subscribers next week.[/tldr] Google has unveiled Gemini Spark, an always-on personal AI agent that can receive […]