Google rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agent
Google announced during Google I/O 2025 that it’s rolling out Project Mariner, the company’s experimental AI agent that browses and uses websites, to more users and developers. Google also says it’s significantly updated how Project Mariner works, allowing the agent to take on nea
Google updates the Gemini app with real-time AI video, Deep Research, and more
Google announced several updates to the Gemini AI chatbot app during Google I/O 2025, including more broadly available multimodal AI features, updated AI models, and deeper integrations with Google’s suite of products.
Starting Tuesday, Google is rolling out Gemini Live’s camera and sc
Google’s NotebookLM is getting Video Overviews
At Google I/O 2025, the tech giant unveiled new capabilities coming to NotebookLM, its AI-based note-taking and research assistant. Most notably, the company is launching Video Overviews.
Google says users will soon be able to turn dense multimedia, such as raw notes, PDFs, and images, into diges
Google is launching a Gemini integration in Chrome
Google announced at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday that it’s launching a Gemini integration in Chrome. The tech giant says the new integration will give users access to a new AI browsing assistant that will help them quickly understand the context of a page and get tasks done.
Gemini in Chrome w
Google releases Wear OS 6 with Material 3 Expressive design refresh
Google announced new features for Wear OS 6 at Google I/O 2025 today, giving the operating system a design makeover with Material 3 Expressive, the design language the company unveiled earlier this month.
Google released the developer preview of Wear OS 6, which is based on Android 16, for testing
Google introduces Shop with AI Mode with price tracking, agentic checkout, and virtual try-on
Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it is adding multiple AI-powered features for online shoppers, including a new visual panel in Google Search’s AI Mode, personalized price tracking notifications with agentic checkout, and virtual try-ons.
The new shopping experience is rolling out in
Google shows off Android XR-based glasses, announces Warby Parker team-up
Google is taking on Meta’s Ray-Ban Meta glasses by announcing new partnerships at Google I/O 2025 with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to create smart glasses based on Android XR.
Google launched the Android XR platform with Qualcomm and Samsung last year. While it didn’t talk about sp
Google debuts an AI-powered video tool called Flow
At its Google I/O 2025 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced Flow, a new AI-powered video tool geared toward filmmaking.
The company said it’s using a trio of its AI models — Veo for video generation, Imagen for image generation, and Gemini for text and prompting — to power t
Google brings a music-generating AI model to its API with Lyria RealTime
Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it is making the AI model that powers its experimental music production app, MusicFX DJ, available via an API.
The model, Lyria RealTime, is now in Google’s Gemini API and AI Studio platform. It can mix musical genres, change instruments, and alter th
Imagen 4 is Google’s newest AI image generator
Google is rolling out a new image-generating AI model, Imagen 4, that the company claims delivers higher-quality results than its previous image generator, Imagen 3.
Unveiled at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, Imagen 4 is capable of rendering “fine details” like fabrics, water droplets, a
Project Astra comes to Google Search, Gemini, and developers
Google announced on Tuesday during Google I/O 2025 that Project Astra — the company’s low latency, multimodal AI experience — will power an array of new experiences in Search, the Gemini AI app, and products from third-party developers.
Most notably, Project Astra is powering a new Searc
Google’s new SynthID Detector can help spot AI slop
Google is launching a way to quickly check whether an image, video, audio file, or snippet of text was created using one of its AI tools.
SynthID Detector, announced Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, is a verification portal that uses Google’s SynthID watermarking technology to help identify AI-g
‘Deep Think’ boosts the performance of Google’s flagship Google Gemini AI model
Google is upgrading its most capable Gemini AI models.
On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company announced Deep Think, an “enhanced” reasoning mode for its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro model. Deep Think allows the model to consider multiple answers to questions before responding, boosting
Google AI Ultra: You’ll have to pay $249.99 per month for Google’s best AI
Google is launching a new subscription plan called Google AI Ultra to bring more of its AI products under one roof.
The new plan, announced at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, delivers the “highest level of access” to Google’s AI-powered apps and services, the tech giant says. Priced