OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of models

Pomelli adds new ways to build brand content and design websites.

Pomelli is introducing AI agents that can help you design your brand book and launch a website.

Building the agentic future: Developer highlights from I/O 2026

We're introducing new tools to take your ideas from a prompt to a production-ready application, including updates to Google Antigravity, an enhanced Gemini API and nativ…

I/O 2026

At Google I/O 2026, we shared how we’re making AI more helpful for everyone. See everything we announced.

How AI Mode is changing the way people search in the U.S.

One year after launch, see how AI Mode’s users are shifting from keywords to natural language queries.

New ways to create and get things done in Google Workspace

Announcing new voice capabilities in Gmail, Docs and Keep, a new design tool called Google Pics and updates to AI Inbox.

Introducing Gemini Omni

Introducing Gemini Omni, which allows you to create anything from any input and edit naturally using conversational language.

I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era

The latest from Google I/O: See how we’re helping you get more done with Gemini.

Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action

At Google I/O we released Gemini 3.5, our latest series of models combining frontier intelligence with action.

Advancing content provenance for a safer, more transparent AI ecosystem

OpenAI advances AI content provenance with Content Credentials, SynthID, and a verification tool to help people identify and trust AI-generated media.

Measuring the impact of AI on teaching and learning

Two new studies in Sierra Leone and Italy demonstrate how Gemini is improving learning outcomes by helping students improve math skills and enabling teachers to create m…

Blackstone will create a new TPU cloud in a joint venture with Google.

Blackstone announced a joint venture with Google to create a new TPU cloud.

Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses at IO 2026

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.

Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family

Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for Robot Video Generation

PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend

Amazon’s Alexa+ Now Generates Custom AI Podcasts on Demand

Users can request a podcast on any topic, preview the AI co-hosts’ outline, tweak length and direction, then generate a full episode powered by news from 200+ partners including AP, Reuters, and The Washington Post.

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OpenAI and Dell partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premise enterprise environments

OpenAI and Dell partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premise environments, helping enterprises deploy AI coding agents securely across data and workflows.

We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks.

The Asia-Pacific region is a global engine for economic growth, but it's also highly vulnerable to climate change. While green technologies are gaining momentum, a recen…

Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?

Welcome to a "profound moment for humanity," according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O's keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying: Google's cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI's incredible potential for the benefit of the entire world. When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that […]

We react to Google I/O 2026

What better way to unwind from a two-hour keynote presentation than to pore over the weirdest and wildest details, from a Gmail bot you can converse with to DeepMind's leader saying the singularity is near. The Vergecast went live right after the show, with senior AI reporter Hayden Field joining me to discuss the highlights. […]

You can now talk to your Gmail inbox, as seen at Google IO 2026

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing

Ocean, an agentic email security platform, raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data

Google has big promises for its AI-powered future - and a lot of it depends on your trust. At I/O 2026, Google described a bunch of new tools that it claims will make your life easier. Gemini Spark, Google's always-on AI agent, can help organize an upcoming event, while Daily Brief can offer a rundown […]

NVIDIA and Google Cloud Empower the Next Wave of AI Builders

At this year’s Google I/O conference, NVIDIA and Google Cloud are accelerating the work of more than 100,000 developers in the companies’ joint developer community, which provides curated learning paths, hands-on labs and events that help them build using the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform on Google Cloud. Launched at Google I/O last year, the community […]

Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses

Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.

Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more

AI content is getting good, but SynthID might be able to help tell truth from fiction.

Gemini 3.5 Flash might be fast enough for gen AI to make sense

Google says its more efficient Gemini 3.5 Flash is the key to your agentic AI future.

Gemini will use Volvo’s external cameras to interpret parking signs

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 […]

The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026

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 […]

Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View

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.

With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

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.

Google wants to compete with Anthropic’s Mythos

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 […]

Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

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.

Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration

At the Google I/O developer conference, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.

Google’s AI now lets you talk to your Gmail inbox

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start

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 updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude

The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.

Would you let robots spend your money? Google is betting on it

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 […]

Google Search is getting its biggest changes ever

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 […]

Gmail is going to start talking to you

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 […]

Google is launching its own version of OpenClaw

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, […]

Google is trying to make deepfake detection more accessible for everyone

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 […]

Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb

The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.

Gemini Spark Is Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent

Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails.

Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore

Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.

OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models

OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.

Google I/O 2026: All the news and announcements

Google I/O 2026 kicks off today, with the event’s keynote presentation slated for 10AM PT / 1PM ET on May 19th. Gemini is expected to be front and center once again at this year’s developer conference, with Google potentially introducing new versions of AI models and more agentic AI features. Google already showed off a […]

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team

Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It's also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model.

Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI’s Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO

The ex-employees, who cofounded a new AI watchdog group, say investors deserve more information about xAI’s safety practices before SpaceX goes public.

Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment

Interactive social media site Status announced Tuesday $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding, with investors including General Catalyst, YC, LightShed Ventures, and Abstract.

Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had

Stilta announced Tuesday a $10 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors in the round include YC and operators from companies like OpenAI, Legora, and Lovable.

Google I/O 2026: How to watch and what to expect

Google's annual developer conference has arrived. We're expecting plenty of updates to Gemini, Search, and every other product that Google has stuffed AI inside of. The keynote kicks off later today - here's what to expect. When Google I/O will happen and where you can watch it Google I/O starts at 10AM PT / 1PM […]

Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot

Gemini has a creep problem. A few years ago, that little sparkle icon started showing up in all of our Google apps. Gemini in your inbox! Gemini in your Google Drive! It was slow at first, and easy enough to tune out, but something has changed in the past few months. Gemini is creeping. It's […]

Google I/O 2026 Live Blog: All the Gemini and Smart Glasses Updates as They Happen

Follow our live coverage of Google’s annual developer keynote, where the company will announce updates to its Gemini suite of AI tools and more details about Android XR smart glasses.

SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required

Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that access is the bigger obstacle and that Claude solves it.

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.

Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people

The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn't direct the future of AI. Altman's lawyers, in turn, poked at Musk's own credibility. A jury came to a verdict on Monday after just […]

All of the updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s battle over OpenAI

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. After nearly a month […]

Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI

The nine-member panel took only two hours to return a verdict in favor of OpenAI on Monday, which the judge quickly adopted as her own final decision.

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.

Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients

The app is similar to a meeting notetaker — you can record doctor visits, and it will return an AI summary of the meeting, with the next steps, all of which you share with family and friends if you want to.

Google I/O 2026 Kicks Off Tomorrow with Expected Gemini 4.0 and XR Announcements

Engineers are prepping hard for Monday’s keynote at 10am PT; rumors point to Gemini 4.0, Android XR glasses, and new AI features across Search and Android.

Google I/O 2026 Kicks Off Tomorrow: Gemini 4.0, Android XR Glasses, and Agentic Coding Expected

Google has confirmed the keynote will spotlight the latest Gemini model updates and 'agentic coding,' widely seen as the Gemini 4.0 reveal. The two-day event starts May 19 at 10am PT with major implications for AI integration across Android and Workspace.

I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?

Apparently anyone can vibe code anything these days. So Claude and I tried to make a database for tracking the petty grievances of the masses.

Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial

A big theme in the trial’s final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.

Commentary: Kids need to learn about AI – but will it sabotage the way they learn?

SINGAPORE: The announcement that artificial intelligence will be introduced to primary school students has stirred debate among parents and educators. Earlier this year, Minister for Education Mr Desmond Lee said that from Primary 4, students may use AI tools under close supervision. The goal is for AI to function like a teacher and ask students questions, rather than spoon-feed them answers. In theory, a child having an AI tutor may not seem like a bad idea, especially if this can help with understanding difficult concepts. But as a parent of two, I wonder if accelerating children’s learning should really be the goal of education at such an early age. At an age where kids are still developing their critical thinking, resilience and character, isn’t productive struggle more important than productivity itself? GAME-CHANGING SPEED AND SIMPLICITY An AI leader I interviewed shared a parenting and teaching hack: She lets her child speak to an AI chatbot with child-safe settings in place. It can answer complex questions and random trivia that would baffle many adults. Intrigued, I tried it with my own kids. When they asked about war, scoliosis, strange bugs – I allowed AI to field a few questions in a child-friendly way. Its speed and simplicity were game-changing. After a couple of brief sessions, I realised my kids seemed to enjoy asking AI more than the people around me. When we were unsure about a Chinese question, my daughter asked if we should check with AI. Even when we ordered a printer online and could not instantly understand the manual, my kids’ first instinct was to ask AI. The problem is, learning in the real world rarely works like this. Related: Commentary: Your kids are already using AI. Are you ready to guide them? 'A double-edged sword': Why some parents have concerns about introducing AI at Primary 4 DOES LEARNING NEED TO BE OPTIMISED WITH AI? Lifelong learning always involves some level of struggling with uncertainty. Sometimes, we need to brainstorm with peers or seek guidance from mentors. And sometimes, it comes with negative feedback or rejection – things that our generation is already increasingly uncomfortable with. That is also how teachers and classroom learning have traditionally functioned. Realistically, a teacher cannot always come to students’ aid immediately, know all the answers, and ask the right questions to engage students. But over time, we learn to tolerate discomfort and ambiguity – essential for emotional resilience, independent thought, creativity and leadership. When AI generates responses in seconds and optimises pathways for learning, how might it reshape the next generation’s learning habits? Will it sabotage how children learn from their teachers and classmates, who are rarely so succinct, sycophantic or personalised? Moreover, even if AI boosts knowledge acquisition in students, wisdom is an increasingly depreciating commodity in the age of AI. As a friend and fellow parent aptly pointed out, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is usually gained from making choices with incomplete information, making mistakes, fixing them imperfectly and living through the interim stress. We are beginning to see the impact of AI on adults already. A 2025 study found that heavy AI usage correlates with lower scores on a critical thinking test. Some people I spoke to have grown reliant on AI to decide on all kinds of matters for them, from shopping to resolving work problems and having difficult personal conversations. If adults are rewired by this technology, how much more will primary school students be affected during the critical window when they are still developing their cognitive muscles and sense of self? Related: Commentary: ChatGPT is a dangerous study aid for STEM students AI use in Singapore schools kept age-appropriate, with focus on learning, not shortcuts: Desmond Lee SPILLOVER EFFECTS OUTSIDE SCHOOL This is not to say that AI should be completely avoided in schools. We cannot ignore that children are likely already using AI tools through family accounts and shared devices, even though platforms such as ChatGPT and Gemini have age restrictions. Parents and some schools are also already using AI-powered platforms such as KooBits. I have heard of kids taking screenshots of homework to ask AI for help, brainstorming with and even chatting with AI. So it is a great initiative that schools will be teaching AI safety so that children are aware of hallucination risks and data protection concerns. The Ministry of Education has also clarified that students will not be given general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT or Gemini, but MOE-developed tools with built-in guardrails, which is reassuring. But as a parent, I wonder if broader AI-assisted learning in school will have spillover effects in homes where AI is not used. Once children experience how quickly AI can generate ideas, scaffold arguments and provide emotional reassurance, will home use become more prevalent? Parents, already struggling to manage the impact of social media and screen time, would then need the bandwidth and capacity to guide safe AI use. A more open discussion on the implementation of AI in classrooms, the monitoring of student usage and data privacy concerns would help parents better navigate these uncharted waters. Parents are naturally feeling anxious that AI will redesign the workforce and replace jobs. In this AI arms race, some feel that teaching AI will give children a head start in this new world. However, AI-accelerated learning cannot be at the expense of the very skills that enable humans to survive, thrive and find meaning – communication, frustration tolerance, confidence and self-determination. Education, including any AI initiatives, should be designed to protect and boost these critical life skills, not bypass them. Annie Tan is a freelance writer based in Singapore.

Google I/O Live Blog: Android 17, Android XR, Gemini Intelligence, and More

We're covering all of Google's big I/O announcements as they happen.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at Dell Technologies World: ‘Demand Is Going Parabolic, Utterly Parabolic’

Agentic AI inference at one-tenth the cost per token with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72. Agent sandboxes run 50% faster on NVIDIA Vera than traditional CPUs — while enterprise data queries are up to 3x faster with the Vera CPU. And 5,000 enterprises like Lilly, Samsung and Honeywell are running AI workloads on Dell AI Factories […]

Vera Arrives: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Lands at Top AI Labs

The first NVIDIA Vera CPUs arrived at three of the world's leading AI labs on Friday — Anthropic in San Francisco, OpenAI in Mission Bay, SpaceXAI in Palo Alto — followed by a delivery to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Santa Clara on Monday. NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing Ian Buck hand-delivered them.

Elon Musk Loses Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

A court ruled against Elon Musk in his high-profile case against OpenAI, with Musk's team reserving the right to appeal. The decision comes amid ongoing tensions over OpenAI's for-profit shift.

Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees

Musk plans to appeal after judge immediately affirmed the jury's decision.

Amazon's Alexa+ Now Generates Custom AI Podcasts on Demand

Amazon expands Alexa+ into a personalized AI content platform, letting users create on-demand podcast episodes tailored to their interests.

Google I/O 2026 Kicks Off Tomorrow with Expected Gemini 4.0 Reveal

Google confirms keynote will highlight latest Gemini model updates and agentic coding, widely seen as Gemini 4.0 launch alongside Android XR glasses.

Google I/O 2026 Kicks Off Tomorrow with Gemini 4.0 Expected

Google's annual developer conference is set for May 19, with anticipated reveals including Gemini 4.0, Android XR glasses, and new AI hardware integrations.

Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation in New $30B Raise

Anthropic is reportedly raising another $30 billion at a $900 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI for the first time amid annualized revenue approaching $45 billion.

Dell Technologies World 2026 Kicks Off with Heavy AI Focus

The annual Dell event in Las Vegas opens today through May 21, featuring keynotes on Dell AI Factory, NVIDIA integrations, enterprise AI scaling, and sessions on moving from AI pilots to production. Jensen Huang is scheduled to join Michael Dell on stage.

NVIDIA Announces Blackwell Ultra B200X with 30% Higher AI Training Throughput

NVIDIA revealed the B200X variant at Computex Taipei, promising 30% better perf/watt for large-scale training clusters shipping in Q4.

NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B200X now shipping to select hyperscalers

NVIDIA confirmed volume shipments of the Blackwell Ultra B200X AI accelerator with 30% higher throughput than the original B200 for training runs.