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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, represents the company’s most ambitious bid yet to become the default middleman in online commerce. Universal Cart […]

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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 next week.[/tldr] Google has unveiled Gemini Spark, an always-on personal AI agent that can receive […]

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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 Gemini AI models. The headline feature is Docs Live, which lets users create and edit documents entirely […]

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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 an updated desktop app, a new command-line tool, and an SDK for building custom agents. The original […]

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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 keywords. The feature is built on Gemini, Google’s flagship AI model, and works a bit […]

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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, Google declared that era over. The company unveiled what it calls an “intelligent […]

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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 new category of AI-powered tools called information agents, persistent, background […]

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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 one of the most tangible demonstrations yet of what generative world models can do when paired with […]

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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 glasses” designed in collaboration with Samsung. Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro and running on […]

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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 market. ICE announced on Monday that it will team with Ornn, a financial-infrastructure firm whose […]

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