… Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai described Spark as the next evolution of smart digital assistants, using agentic AI to take on long-horizon tasks with minimal oversight. “It’s your personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking action on your behalf and under your direction,” Pichai… …
… Google is also adding native voice command support to Antigravity, just like it has added to multiple consumer products, including Gmail and Docs . …
… The tech giant also announced updates to its Agent Payments Protocol AP2 and teased that it would bring the technology to Google products in the coming months, enabling users to authorize agents to make payments on their behalf. …
… Lately, dictation apps such as Wispr Flow, Monologue, and Aqua have built this functionality into their voice-based typing products. Earlier this month, Google released its own dictation product called Rambler , which is built into Gboard and works across apps. …
… Startup Luma AI is building something similar, an agentic tool that can generate an entire ad campaign based on a short brief and a product image, powered by its own “unified” model. “We’re actually pretty proud of the model’s text-rendering capabilities, which is really useful for things like adve… …
… That suggests the company believes this is bigger news and more closely tied to its idea of putting AI to real-world use, as was the larger theme of this year’s event, where AI was spread across Google products, from workspace productivity apps to AI tools, search, mobile apps, and more. …
… The company told TechCrunch it will wind down all hosted Stainless products , including its SDK generator. …
… We’re looking for ambitious early-stage startups building innovative, potentially category-defining products. …
… Google I/O could have been a breakout moment when AI agents became available to everyone via a simple, free consumer product with one brand name! . This product may even have people clamoring for the way they used to beg for Gmail invites. …
… It’s another way that Google is trying to showcase how its AI technology can drive real-world improvements to products used by millions of consumers, at a time when many outside the tech industry are questioning the value of AI, as new data centers get built in their backyards, driving up their pow… …