Google I/O 2026: How the Search Giant Is Rebuilding Itself Around Agentic AI

Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new AI model designed to support agentic workflows across its products and enterprise platforms, as the company looks to move generative AI beyond chatbot-style interactions and deeper into business operations. The model, announced at the annual Google I/O developer conference, is available through the Gemini app, AI Mode in Google Search, Google Antigravity, the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Android Studio, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Gemini Enterprise. In a blog post, Google said Gemini 3.5 Flash is built for tasks including software development, financial document preparation, customer onboarding, OCR, tax workflows, and data diagnostics. Google also sought to position the model as a faster alternative to larger flagship systems. It described Gemini 3.5 Flash as its strongest model yet for agentic and coding tasks, claiming it outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on benchmarks including Terminal-Bench 2.1, GDPval-AA, and MCP Atlas. The co

With Google’s annual I/O gala in full force this week, Gemini and AI are taking center stage and being presented as the future of practically everything. Here in the land of Android, though, Gemini’s been quietly competing for attention with another relatively youthful on-demand assistant — and that’s a far less in-your-face feature called Circle to Search. Circle to Search is essentially an instant portal to the even less widely known Android Google Lens setup, which has been serving up genuinely practical real-world advantages for Android device-owners in the know for years now — since way back before the word “Gemini” had any Googley meaning. And whether you also adore Gemini or find it to be more hype than help, it’s well worth your while to dig into Circle to Search — or maybe just revisit its potential, if you’d perhaps explored it briefly early on and then forgotten about it — to see what it can do for you. Here, specifically, are 10 simple but supremely useful ways Circle to Se

Firefox chief Ajit Varma explains how Mozilla is betting on privacy, optional AI tools, and its nonprofit structure to compete against browsers from Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

OpenAI has announced two complementary measures to help users identify AI-generated images, partnering with Google on technology that addresses one of the most pressing challenges in the era of generative AI. The company is adopting C2PA, an open standard developed by a non-profit coalition founded in 2021, which embeds readable metadata signals identifying an image […]

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When I joined SAS in 1997, most analytics workflows still revolved around desktops, batch processing and highly technical users. Later that same year, SAS introduced SAS/IntrNet – a technology that helped bring SAS analytics into the growing world of web applications. At the time, it felt like a major shift [...] The post From SAS/IntrNet to agentic AI: Watching two technology shifts unfold appeared first on SAS Blogs.

Google Gemini’s next-generation family offering: Gemini 3.5 is here!  Gemini 3.5 Flash combines frontier intelligence with real-world action and supports high-speed agentic workflows, coding, and multimodal reasoning while maintaining the low latency expected from the Flash series. With Gemini 3.5 Pro, slated to be released in the next month, let’s take a look at the […] The post Gemini 3.5 Flash: frontier intelligence with speed appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash beats its own flagship on coding and agentic benchmarks while running four times faster and at half the cost. The post Google Introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026: A Faster and Cheaper Model for AI Agents and Coding appeared first on MarkTechPost.