Microsoft Is All-In on Agentic AI and Vibe Coding Now That It's 'Working'
During Microsoft's latest earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Satya Nadella perhaps unintentionally summed up the current state of the company's massive agentic AI push. …
Google is expected to debut its AI-powered Android XR smart glasses, rivaling Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. Google first teased the return of smart glasses at its I/O keynote in 2024 (remember Google Glasses?). Last year, the company showed off a Gemini-powered prototype version, which Abrar Al-Heeti, CNET's senior tech reporter, tested at Mobile World Congress. Al-Heeti was especially impressed by the Google Maps demo, which provided directions based on a picture she viewed through the glasses, as well as the ability to look at a vinyl album cover and ask Gemini to play a song from it. Sounds
Can Google Wow Us at I/O 2026? Here's What It Has to Get RightIt feels like Gemini is everywhere Google is, from search to Android devices, apps and features. It was previously built as generative AI, but Google is diving into agentic AI with Agentic Vision through Gemini Flash 3 with its "Think, Act, Observe" loop. But that may just be the beginning. Chedraoui expects agentic AI to be a big focus at Google I/O. We saw how Google is using Gemini AI agents in Android 17, but she predicts we could see other forms of AI, as last year's Google I/O did, which kick-started the AI video race. However, we're way past the initial awe phase, so Chedraoui is looki
Can Google Wow Us at I/O 2026? Here's What It Has to Get RightDuring Microsoft's latest earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Satya Nadella perhaps unintentionally summed up the current state of the company's massive agentic AI push. …
… Chedraoui expects agentic AI to be a big focus at Google I/O. We saw how Google is using Gemini AI agents in Android 17 , but she predicts we could see other forms of AI, as last year's Google I/O did, which kick-started the AI video race. …
… For instance, Flow's agentic AI can become more of a "sounding board" and brainstorming partner when it comes to deciding on the dialogue of a scene or where the plot should go next in your story. …
… Its AI overview summaries are still going, with new changes expanding the info they include and pulling from "firsthand" sources like Reddit. AI Mode, introduced at last year's I/O, makes search queries more like talking with a chatbot and has agentic capabilities to do the searching for you. …
… Mohan showed Google using its AI agent-infused development platform Antigravity to build an operating system and asked it to play Doom as a sort of QA test. It couldn't because it lacked video and keyboard drivers, he explained. …
… Last week, Anthropic announced that its AI agent tool Claude Cowork is now available on paid plans for both MacOS and Windows. For many Word users, Claude could be a welcome alternative to Copilot, an AI assistant launched by Microsoft in February 2023. …
… Don't get me wrong -- I definitely got my share of AI promo as Google becomes, in the words of one of its employees, "unabashedly agent-first." But really, what I found was a city split in two. …
… Now that agentic AI is all the rage, we'll most likely see Google lean even further in this direction. This type of AI can perform tasks on your behalf , like controlling your computer, with minimal oversight. We'll have to wait and see what and how many AI features Google announces this time. …
… What's rarely mentioned when companies push AI at the expense of more memory, though, is that any work that incorporates information from lots of sources on your system, accumulates the results of multiple steps in an agent flow or loads a moderate size LLM requires more memory. …
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