Catch up on 12 major I/O 2026 moments

At this year’s Google I/O, the atmosphere at the Shoreline Amphitheatre was electric as the CEO laid out a vision for a world deeply intertwined with agentic AI. We heard about the sheer computing muscle of the new TPU 8i […] The post The War on Deepfakes: How Google’s C2PA Integration at I/O 2026 is Fighting Back to Protect Our Reality appeared first on TechSpective.

As Apple tries to shrink Gemini for the iPhone, a cloud component is probably inevitable.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) is moving faster than expected and that society now has only a few years to prepare. He believes AGI could arrive around 2030, though acknowledges it could be here in 2029 — or even sooner. In an interview with Axios, Hassabis said that today’s AI agents — systems capable of performing tasks independently — should be viewed as a sort of “practice run” for significantly more powerful AI in the future. He also warned that governments, economists, and society at large are not taking this development seriously enough. One particular risk he highlighted is that AI systems in the future might begin to improve their own development. “All the leading labs are pretty focused on that,” Hassabis told Axios. “It will yield clear benefits in the form of faster research. But there are also risks associated with that type of system.”

The case highlights vulnerabilities in prediction markets, prompting increased scrutiny and potential regulatory changes to prevent insider trading. The post Polymarket faces insider trading scrutiny as Google engineer charged with fraud appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The Google employee case is the second federal prosecution tied to alleged prediction market insider trading on Polymarket.

This case underscores the legal risks of exploiting corporate data in prediction markets, potentially tightening regulatory scrutiny on such platforms. The post Google engineer charged with insider trading on Polymarket after $1.2M in alleged profits appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

A Google information security engineer has been arrested and charged with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering after allegedly using confidential internal company data to place a series of bets on Polymarket — the crypto-based prediction market platform — winning approximately $1.2 million by knowing the outcomes of his wagers before the trading public […]

Nvidia, Google, and a growing list of startups are using AI to make weather reports more accurate—and show the world how powerful the technology is.