The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
…Clicking an icon in the search bar lets you ask questions by talking, and instead of having to wade through a list of relevant email chains, the Gmail Live interface will extract…
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Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis
…that runs in the cloud, a good portion also takes place in the vehicles themselves. Waymo’s robotaxis, festooned with cameras, lidar, and radar, take in massive streams of raw sensor data…
Netflix is eating Hollywood — because it has to
…love talking to you about the streaming business, about what’s going on in the media business. I want to start with a very basic question. This is what I really want…
Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute
…One cloud service provider nearly doubled its prices on Nvidia Blackwell B200 chips for one rental customer during its contract renewal. “This is the very beginning, like what it was when I…
Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it
…This is the first Google smart speaker you can pair with a Google TV Streamer (and only a Streamer) as an audio output. You can use just one, but adding two gets…
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins’ plan for the AI era
…This brings me to the Decoder questions because my next set of questions after this are how you’re handling this interlocking set of complicated puzzle pieces. Tell me how Cisco is…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth.
…But the drama-filled marriage slowly devolved into a situationship, and the pair effectively separated in late April (though Microsoft is still OpenAI’s primary cloud partner — for now). This year’s…
Trump’s posting even more AI-generated Trump-Jesus fan art
…But he’s radiating the spirit of Antichrist, no question.”) This time, it wasn’t the White House memelord army that had generated it. Trump admitted to reporters on Monday, while accepting…
Rivian’s software chief thinks you don’t need CarPlay or buttons
…Let me ask you the other Decoder question, and then I want to turn to the software itself. I ask everybody this question. We’ve talked about it a little bit. How…
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
…Basically Netflix and a few of the other big streaming companies, they said, “Look, if you don’t put digital rights management into browsers, then we will no longer allow streaming video…