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Figma adds an AI assistant to its collaborative canvas

Figma's new AI assistant will be first available on Figma Design

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‘Ask YouTube’ brings AI-powered conversational search to video, adds Gemini Omni to Shorts

Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn't stop at YouTube.

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Google just declared itself a contender in AI design at IO 2026

Google says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.

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You can now talk to your Gmail inbox, as seen at Google IO 2026

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

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How to use Google’s new AI agents to go beyond your standard searches

Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.

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Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user

Good news! Discord's hundreds of millions of users now have their communications scrambled, so not even Discord can see them.

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Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem

Mach says the acquisition meaningfully improves unit economics across its five vehicle programs at exactly the moment the company is starting to scale.

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From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing

Ocean, an agentic email security platform, claims its AI can thoroughly analyze the context of every incoming email to detect fraud and impersonation attempts.

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Elon Musk said Sam Altman ‘stole’ a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims

The jury's speedy decision to reject Elon Musk's lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk's case was a weak one, in part because he waite

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Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses at IO 2026

Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

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Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View

Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather chang

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With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building so

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Google Search as you know it is over

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t

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Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026

The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.

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Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.

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Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start

Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation — starting with Omni Flash.

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Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool at IO 2026

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside the Antigravity 2.0 launch.

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Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep

Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update.

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Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration, at IO 2026

At the Google I/O developer conference, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.

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Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow your entire shopping journey across the internet

Most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why Google is launching Universal Cart.

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