Hands-On With All of Google’s New Upcoming Android XR Smart Glasses
Google has been teasing its Android XR-powered smart glasses for the past year and a half—ever since it first announced the new mixed reality platform in December of 2024. Now, we’re finally starting to see more polished versions of the hardware, several of which will actually go on sale this fall. At Google I/O, the […]
Google’s Newest App Is An AI-Powered Image Editor
It’s not Photoshop, but it could be better than what’s in Google Photos. Google Alongside an array of updates across its Workspace apps, including Docs and Drive, Google is launching a new image-editing app that combines generative AI tools with fine-grain editing. Google Pics is built on Nano Banana, with object segmentation, meaning you’ll be […]
Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, is keen to talk about the coding skills of his company’s newest model, Gemini 3.5 Flash. The model has been trained to perform complex agentic coding tasks: translate large code bases from one language to another; find and fix bugs lurking deep in knotty code; and even write […]
Google’s Universal Cart Will Keep An Eye On Your Shopping
It’ll even look for chances to maximize your loyalty points. Google Google is today announcing a raft of updates to Shopping, the most notable of which is likely its new Universal Cart. Universal Cart is a tool which aggregates all of your purchases under one roof and lets you shop from more places. In essence, […]
Google Search Universal Cart, expands UCP and AP2
Google also announced some new agentic commerce features today in Google Search including Universal Cart, expanding Universal Commerce Protocol and Agent Payments Protocol (AP2). Plus, Google’s Shopping Graph now contains 60 billion product listings, which is up from 50 billion from earlier this year, announced Vidhya Srinivasan, VP/GM Ads & Commerce. Universal Cart. Google announced […]
OpenAI’s new image watermarks make it easier to spot AI fakes – here’s how
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways OpenAI now uses C2PA metadata and SynthID watermarks. Hidden pixel signals can help identify AI-generated images. A public OpenAI verification tool is also rolling out. Today, OpenAI announced what it calls content provenance signals across its image […]
Google’s Circle To Search Feature Can Tell You If An Image Was AI-Generated
The company is expanding SynthID to Chrome and Search. Google As Google introduces new models and tools for generating AI content, it’s also making it a little bit easier for people to answer the question “was this created with AI?” The company is expanding its AI detection system SynthID so features like Circle to Search […]
Google Releases Gemini 3.5 Flash Frontier Model Focused On Agentic AI
It wouldn’t be a Google I/O keynote without a new frontier AI model. At I/O 2026, Google finally revealed the Gemini 3.5 family to the world, starting with Gemini 3.5 Flash. As you’d expect, it’s the latest and greatest model from Google, designed to work across a slew of Google products like the Gemini app, […]
Google Shoves More AI Into Search, Including A Dynamic Search Box And Agentic Features
Google Search is becoming even more of a showpiece for its AI ambitions. Today at Google I/O 2026, the company announced that Search has been upgraded to the Gemini 3.5 Flash model, which it says offers faster inferencing, smarter results and the ability to process different types of media. As a result, Google is also […]
Google’s AI Mode Is Getting Gemini’s Latest Model
At Google I/O 2026, Google announced that they’re going all in on AI Search. According to Google, AI Mode now has more than a billion monthly users. To tackle all those questions, Google is plugging their best new Gemini 3.5 model directly into AI Mode, and, of course, they’re integrating agents directly into Google Search […]