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Dumb ways for an open source project to die

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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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Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

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Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

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Disney erased FiveThirtyEight

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The TTY Demystified (2008)

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Google changes its search box

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Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

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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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Gemini Omni

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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’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 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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Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build And

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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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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 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 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’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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