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’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data
Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data

Google has big promises for its AI-powered future – and a lot of it depends on your trust. At I/O 2026, Google described a bunch of new tools that it claims will make your life easier. Gemini Spark, Google’s always-on AI agent, can help organize an upcoming event, while Daily Brief can offer a rundown […]

Google just gave Workspace a 24/7 AI agent that sends emails and books meetings while you sleep

Gmail Live answers inbox questions by voice, Docs Live turns rambling speech into structured documents, and Google Pics lets you edit one element of an image without touching the rest.

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…

Gemini can now make videos, brief your morning, and do digital chores while you sleep

Google’s Gemini app is getting a major upgrade with cinematic video generation, morning briefs, richer answers, and a 24/7 agent that handles tasks.

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 Search is getting AI agents that will monitor the web for you

Google used I/O 2026 to announce a major overhaul of Search, adding background AI agents that monitor the web for you, a redesigned search box, and agentic coding that can build custom apps and dashboards on demand.

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…