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…

Google wants Search to work while you sleep, and its new information agents are the plan
Google wants Search to work while you sleep, and its new information agents are the plan

Google has spent more than two decades refining a product built on a simple premise: you type a question, it returns a list of links. At I/O 2026 on Monday, the company signalled that premise is no longer enough. Among the biggest announcements was a n…

Google DeepMind plugs Street View into its world model, and you can explore simulated cities today
Google DeepMind plugs Street View into its world model, and you can explore simulated cities today

Google DeepMind has connected its Project Genie world model to 20 years of Street View imagery, allowing users to wander through AI-generated simulations of real places. The integration, announced at the Google I/O developer conference on Monday, marks…

Google partners with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster for Gemini-powered smart glasses
Google partners with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster for Gemini-powered smart glasses

Google is having another go at smart glasses, and this time it is bringing fashionable friends along for the ride. At Google I/O 2026 on Tuesday, the company announced a new partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to produce AI-powered “audio …

ICE plans compute futures contracts as Wall Street races to turn GPU power into a tradable commodity
ICE plans compute futures contracts as Wall Street races to turn GPU power into a tradable commodity

  Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is preparing to launch futures contracts tied to the cost of computing power, marking the latest sign that Wall Street sees AI infrastructure as the next great commodity ma…

Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain
Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain

Most AI products in financial services are, if you strip away the marketing, large language models bolted onto data feeds. They retrieve information. They do not understand it. And when the stakes involve real money, that distinction matters enormously…

Hitachi partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude across 290,000 employees and strengthen Lumada 3.0
Hitachi partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude across 290,000 employees and strengthen Lumada 3.0

Hitachi has announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic that will see the Japanese industrial conglomerate deploy Claude AI models across its entire workforce of approximately 290,000 employees, in what it describes as a move to strengthen its “Lu…