The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
…was once again full of AI-related announcements including a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, new features for Search and Gmail, and updates about its Project Aura smart glasses…
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If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
…At I/O 2026, Google announced new AI agents for gathering information, planning events, summarizing your inbox and calendar, and more. The agents can run continuously in the background, and the company…
Microsoft’s Office and LinkedIn chief now runs Teams in latest reshuffle
…Clarke’s new role “will focus on the overall systems architecture across M365 and Copilot, and how that composes efficiently with model families, Azure cloud, and silicon,” according to a memo from…
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
…Its return is part of an ongoing effort to rebuild trust among Windows users and improve the reliability of the OS. * Leaked images reveal new Xbox Elite 3 and Xbox Cloud Gaming…
Here comes new Siri again
…Gemini won the race, fair and square. But there’s also a growing distrust of AI, particularly from young people, and the better Gemini gets, the creepier it is. It has…
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality Richard Lawler May 18 With mass layoffs plannned, Meta reassigns thousands of employees to AI initiatives. The New York Times and Reuters report that a memo was sent to Meta…
Mercedes-Benz
…However, it did not share the LLM partner behind the technology at the time, which we now know is Google Cloud with this new tailor-made vehicular AI Agent running on Vertex…
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
…I’d expect it also means a more unified Xbox UI across console, PC, and cloud. Xbox Cloud Gaming’s new design already includes plenty of new animations, and Sharma also wants…
Cybersecurity
…Richard Lawler May 13 AI cybersecurity updates for MDASH, Mythos, and GPT-5.5. On Wednesday, the AISI, which evaluates AI models for the British government, said both Anthropic’s Claude Mythos…
Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse
…There are three, or maybe two and a half, new AI editing features in this update. The new Clean Up tool counts as half, because it existed before but was so bad…