US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities
US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities

Weeks after Anthropic’s Mythos AI model sent shockwaves through the financial system, America’s top banking regulators are stepping back from the exam room to give the country’s largest lenders time to shore up their defences. The Federal Reserve and t…

Google gives Gemini a morning routine, a new look, and an AI agent that never sleeps
Google gives Gemini a morning routine, a new look, and an AI agent that never sleeps

Google used the opening keynote of I/O 2026 to unveil a wave of updates to its Gemini app, headlined by a feature called Daily Brief, a personalised morning digest that pulls from a user’s inbox, calendar, and task list to deliver a prioritised overvie…

Google launches Android CLI 1.0 so AI coding agents can tap into Android Studio’s full power
Google launches Android CLI 1.0 so AI coding agents can tap into Android Studio’s full power

Google has released Android CLI at a stable version 1.0, giving AI coding agents a direct line into Android Studio’s capabilities without ever opening the IDE. The announcement, made at Google I/O 2026 on 19 May, is a frank acknowledgement that many de…

Google wants to own your entire shopping journey with Universal Cart and agent-led payments
Google wants to own your entire shopping journey with Universal Cart and agent-led payments

Google has unveiled Universal Cart, an AI-powered shopping hub announced at I/O 2026 that lets users add products from across its ecosystem, Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail, into a single persistent cart. The feature, rolling out in the US today, re…

Google launches Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant you can email like a colleague
Google launches Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant you can email like a colleague

Google announced Gemini Spark at I/O 2026, an always-on agentic AI assistant built on Gemini 3.5 and the Antigravity harness. It runs on dedicated cloud VMs, integrates natively with Gmail and Workspace, and will be available to AI Ultra subscribers ne…

Google wants you to talk to Docs, Keep, and Gmail instead of typing
Google wants you to talk to Docs, Keep, and Gmail instead of typing

  Google is betting that the future of productivity software starts with your voice, not your keyboard. At its I/O 2026 developer conference on Monday, the company unveiled voice-based prompting features for Docs, Keep, and Gmail, all powered by its Ge…

Google turns Antigravity into a full agentic development platform with desktop app, CLI, and SDK
Google turns Antigravity into a full agentic development platform with desktop app, CLI, and SDK

Google just made its most aggressive move yet in the rapidly evolving agentic coding market. At I/O 2026 on Monday, the company unveiled Antigravity 2.0, transforming what started as a Cursor competitor into a sprawling developer platform complete with…

Google wants you to talk to your Gmail inbox, and it might actually work
Google wants you to talk to your Gmail inbox, and it might actually work

Google is betting that the future of email search is not typing, but talking. At Google I/O 2026, the company unveiled Gmail Live, a voice-powered conversational search feature that lets users ask their inbox questions out loud instead of fumbling with…

Google just replaced the search box with an AI agent, and the web will never be the same
Google just replaced the search box with an AI agent, and the web will never be the same

For a quarter of a century, Google Search has opened with the same proposition: a blank white rectangle, a blinking cursor, and the implicit instruction to reduce your question to a handful of keywords. On Monday, at its annual I/O developer conference…

Roundtables: Inside the Musk v. Altman Trial

Listen to the session or watch below Elon Musk lost his suit against OpenAI, in which he alleged CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman had deceived him over the company’s non-profit status. Watch as AI reporter and attorney Michelle Kim, who covered the trial for MIT Technology Review, joins in conversation with editor in…