The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
…https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/verge-google-beam-ai-agent.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] Google is experimenting with AI agents for Google Beam After renaming…
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Windows is back on the Microsoft menu
…Microsoft has been clear that it sees Windows as a home for AI agents and workloads, but it also unveiled Project Solara this week, a new platform for agent-first devices. Microsoft…
This AI guitar pedal let me roll my own effects
…It’s a web frontend for several AI agents working in tandem, trained on Polyend’s own effects library. The various AI components interpret prompts, select effect algorithms, generate code based on…
Google I/O 2026
…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…
The DoorDash problem and the great AI browser fight
…Letting an AI agent disrupt all of that would be dangerously costly. And on top of all that, Amazon might be far less differentiated and easier to replace than something like Uber…
Meta
…Meta is also apparently working on an agentic shopping tool for Instagram that it wants to launch before Q4. Meta Is Building an AI Agent Called ‘Hatch’ and an AI Shopping Tool…
The future of Google is a search box that does everything
…to make “information agents” that can keep track of things you care about — like new sneaker drops or apartment listings — making the search bar a kind of AI-infused Google Alert. Gemini…
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…Salespeople now use agents to summarize information on a client that they’re going to call to build out a really cool presentation. We’re using agents and AI, I would describe…
John Ternus’ first big problem is AI
…Other AI labs have spent the past couple of years dramatically advancing agentic AI systems, which aim to perform complex and multistep tasks on users’ behalf, though there’s still room for…
The AI-designed car is taking shape
…https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/Blazer_AI_Aero.png?quality=90&strip=all] Agentic agility Whether AI is a boon or a debacle largely depends on…