It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...

Last year marked the beginning of Google’s explicit focus on AI search, and this year’s I/O solidified that shift. As Google’s search VP Liz Reid said during the keynote, “Google search is AI search.” ...

At the Google I/O 2026 keynote, the tech giant revealed new agentic capabilities in Search, where users can create, customize, and manage multiple AI agents to stay updated on topics of interest. The ...

Despite its early stumbles, Google’s Gemini has leapfrogged ChatGPT in relevance and usefulness. Soon, it will be ubiquitous. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The New York Times’s lead consumer ...

Blackstone commits $5 billion equity to bring 500 mw capacity Venture offers data centre capacity, access to Google's chips Google's Benjamin Sloss appointed as CEO of new venture Blackstone, the ...

Tired of wasting time editing speech-to-text transcriptions for accuracy and brevity? Gboard will soon be able to use Gemini models to polish transcribed text for seamless dictation. Similar to the ...

Resourceful users have discovered a file approximately 4 GB in size that Google silently installed on all machines with Google Chrome. It's essentially part of a mass-distributed AI model available ...

Transcribing audio to text on your PC is made accessible and secure with Vibe, an open source application that operates entirely offline. By using OpenAI’s Whisper model, Vibe supports transcription ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of Google employees sent a letter to the company’s CEO on Monday demanding that he bar the Pentagon from using Google’s artificial intelligence for classified work, two months ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

A new wearable device that looks like a simple beanie could soon change how people interact with computers. Developed by Silicon Valley startup Sabi, the prototype uses brain-computer interface (BCI) ...