Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself
One of the most immediately noticeable changes to Flow is the new video-generation model powering the experience: Omni Flash, succeeding Veo. Similar to how Google’s Nano Banana model brought more context about the world into the AI image-creation process, the Omni Flash model overhauls video generation with richer detail throughout clips. Flow users can generate […]
Powered by A.I., Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years
For 25 years, Google’s iconic search box was a long, slender bar where people typed in keywords like “World Cup.” But over the past three years, artificial intelligence allowed people to type in longer, more complex questions like “Who are the top 24 teams in the World Cup and what chance does the United States […]
A first (and second) look at the Android XR glasses launching this year
I first put on a pair of prototype Android XR glasses nearly a year and a half ago. We still have months to go before any Android-powered smart glasses are available, but Google is finally ready to show off the progress it’s made. That starts with Project Aura, a dark pair of sunglasses that sits […]
Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent
Gemini Spark is Google’s take on a steroided-out assistant agent that knows everything about you, announced as part of the company’s updates to its Gemini chatbot app at this year’s I/O developer conference. Software companies have been talking up AI agents for some time now, but I wasn’t impressed until I tried Anthropic’s Claude Cowork […]
Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears
They tell me no one outside Google has seen what we’re about to see. No journalist has ever been in this building. Here in Google’s Mountain View labs, the company’s creating lifesize AI agents that can see you, and talk to you. This one’s name is Sophie. It can speak any number of languages. It […]
How Google Is Starting to Win the A.I. Race
Just two years ago, Google looked like it was in trouble. In a desperate move to play catch up with the OpenAI chatbot that had upended the tech industry, the search giant debuted an unpolished version of its artificial intelligence on Google.com. The A.I. spat out shoddy information, including advice for people to eat rocks […]
Google Announces New Universal Cart At I/O
Google used its I/O 2026 event to introduce Universal Cart, a new AI-powered shopping experience designed to work across Search, Gemini, YouTube, Gmail, and participating merchants. The announcement signals another major step in Google’s broader push toward “agentic commerce,” where AI systems do more than recommend products. Instead, they actively help users manage shopping decisions, […]
Google unveils Gemini Spark — a ’24/7 personal AI agent’
Google has unveiled a new personal AI agent called Gemini Spark at Google I/O today, and it could be the tool that pushes agentic AI into the mainstream. The new tool runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google cloud and is available 24/7 to help “navigate your digital life.” The point of agentic AI is […]
Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.
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 […]
Introduction to Lean for Programmers
Intro to proof assistants who transitioned into data science, and I work daily with machine learning algorithms. I’m fascinated both by their apparent magic and by the mathematics that underlies them. Pry open any machine learning library and you’ll find mathematical tricks involving matrix decompositions, convolutions, Gaussian curves, and more. These, in turn, are built […]