Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’
You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel homescreen, says Google.
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Google demoed prototype Android XR glasses that overlay Gemini-powered translation, navigation, and other information directly into your field of view.
Read full articleYou can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel homescreen, says Google.
Fara1.5 is a family of open-weight browser agents from Microsoft Research that outperforms OpenAI's Operator and Google's Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on the industry's toughest live-web benchmark.
Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. As of this writing, if you search for the term "disregard," instead of showing the usual AI-generated summary of search results, the AI Overview section instead includes a response like what you'd see from a more traditional AI chatbot, as called out by a post on X. To one Verge colleague searching "disregard": Got it! Let me know if you need help with anything else. Nothing else followed in the AI Overview portion of the results page. To me, initially: No problem at all! How can I help you today? I searched for "disregard" again later and got another response … Read the full story at The Verge.
Google used I/O 2026 to unveil an ambitious suite of AI agents — including Gemini Spark for personal task management, information agents replacing Google Alerts, a Daily Brief digest drawn from Gmail and Calendar, and an increasingly agentic Chrome browser. The announcements represented a genuine leap in agentic AI capability, but access to most features is restricted […]
South Korean startup LetinAR has secured $18.5 million from Korea Development Bank and Lotte Ventures, bringing total funding to $41.7 million ahead of a planned 2027 IPO. The LG Electronics-backed company, founded in 2016 by childhood friends CEO Jaehyeok Kim and CTO Jeonghun Ha, makes the optical modules that sit inside AI smart glasses — the component […]
After a busy Google I/O, the company’s chief executive sits down with the hosts of “Hard Fork” to discuss the future of Google Search, how he’s using A.I. agents and his advice for college graduates.
Our interview with Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive.
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.