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Stay updated on Google’s AI ambitions, from Gemini 1M-token updates to the latest DeepMind tools and hardware integrations.
… In other words, Google wants other companies to put Google Home’s AI in their products — and charge you a Google Home Premium subscription. With manufacturers now able to build Gemini-powered speakers and cameras, it seems entirely possible that Google may never make another Nest device again. …
… Continued Conversation became available only on Gemini Live, which required Google Home Premium. Starting today, users in Early Access can once again ask follow-up questions to Google’s voice assistant on their Google Home devices without saying “Hey Google” every time, and without paying. …
… New agents, mobile apps and Gemini Omni for Google Flow and Google Flow Music Google If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can Google has been working on agentic AI for years. …
… Link: Everything new in our Google AI subscriptions, fresh from I/O 2026 | https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/google-one/google-ai-subscriptions | Google
… Google isn’t even saying if the laptop in its renders is made by a partner or a tease of some first-party Pixel-like Googlebook to come or is just a cool mockup. The one distinct hardware feature shown, the bar of glowing Google-colored light, will be a signature of all Googlebooks. …
… For Google’s own systems at least, that means SynthID markers may only be identified on Gemini-powered platforms going forward, forcing people to use Google’s own AI tools to identify AI content generated by Google models. …
… After all, Google jumped the gun last week, announcing the Googlebook and Fitbit Air. …
Last year, after watching Google’s I/O keynote, I wrote that it felt like Google’s future was Google googling. After watching this year’s I/O keynote on Tuesday, I don’t think Google just wants to google for you — I think it wants to do everything for you, all from a search box. …
… Google has already partnered with both Kalshi and Polymarket to bring their data to Google Finance. Whether that deal and the results in Google News are related in any way is unclear. We’ve reached out to Google for additional information.
… The Google TV homepage will soon introduce a new “Short videos for you” row that features a feed of personalized videos. The update is expected to roll out to Google TV devices in the US sometime this summer, though Google didn’t specify an exact date. …
