Sundar Pichai Understands Why People Are Anxious About A.I.

Our interview with Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive.

“This is the only recent gathering of a large number of people where mentions of A.I. did not produce a large chorus of boos.”

At this year’s Google I/O developer conference, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, hosts of the “Hard Fork” podcast, sat down with Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google, and talked about where he feels it is succeeding in the A.I. race, and where he thinks the company can do better.

During Tuesday’s Google I/O keynote, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, proclaimed that we are currently “standing in the foothills of the singularity.” It was a striking statement—the singularity is the theoretical future moment when AI rapidly exceeds human intelligence and dramatically transforms the world. But what struck me as I listened in the…

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Google is expanding the role of its CodeMender security agent from autonomous vulnerability remediation toward a larger agentic development ecosystem, signalling a broader push toward AI-driven AppSec. Months after introducing CodeMender, an AI-powered agent designed to autonomously identify and patch software vulnerabilities, Google is now integrating the technology into its expanding Agent Platform strategy unveiled at Google I/O 2026. The shift suggests that CodeMender may no longer be just a standalone remediation tool. Instead, it appears to be positioned as part of a broader ecosystem of enterprise AI agents capable of navigating software development, security, validation, and operational workflows with limited human intervention. “Embedding CodeMender into Agent Platform with identity, gateway, and observability components all included leads me to believe that Google thinks the enterprise doesn’t or will not trust autonomous remediation as a point solution, but rather as part of

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