Google I/O is where Google previews its plans for Gemini, Android, and beyond. At I/O 2026, we’re expecting a heavy focus on AI, as Google adds more Gemini features across its ecosystem of apps and devices. The event kicks off on May 19th with a keynote at 1PM ET / 10AM PT.
That sparkle icon is showing up everywhere these days.
Amidst the biggest update to Android Auto in 10 years, here’s one more feature we spotted on the Android Show: it uses your car’s front camera to predict when to move over. (What would it look for?) Only for select Google Built-in cars, not vanilla Android Auto.
The head of Google discusses the next AI platform shift and how it could change how we use the internet forever.
The last question during the AI fireside chat at I/O 2025 was an invitation to make headlines, and the Google co-founder did his best, saying... something about reality and our existence. Listen in for yourself.
Brin showed up to crash Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis’ fireside chat at I/O 25, where he laid out what he does all day when asked by host Alex Kantrowitz.
The answer? “I think I torture people like Demis, who is amazing, by the way.” ”...there’s just people who are working on the key Gemini text models, on the pretraining, post training. Mostly those, I periodically delve into some of the multi-modal work.”
You can now have NotebookLM make you Audio Overviews that are short (around 5 minutes) and long (around 20 minutes) in addition to the default length of around 10 minutes.
The Google co-founder has said he was “pretty much retired right around the start of the pandemic,” but came back to the company to experience the AI revolution.
This afternoon, we spotted him troubleshooting problems with this demo of Google Flow, which the company announced today as “the only AI filmmaking tool custom-designed for Google’s most advanced models — Veo, Imagen, and Gemini.”
[Insert Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme here, which I should really have saved last time!!!]
The film, called Ancestra, “is directed by Eliza McNitt and blends emotional live-action performances with generative visuals, crafting a deeply personal narrative inspired by the day she was born,” according to a description from the movie’s trailer.
Sure, they tell you to eat rocks and put glue on your pizza, but Google says AI Overviews are a smash, and it’s expanding the feature to a bunch of new countries and languages. They’re now available in more than 200 countries and more than 40 languages, Google says — and they’re starting to appear on more and more queries, too.
Project Starline is now Google Beam and shipping to offices later this year.
AI Overviews were just the start — Google is already preparing for a world where all search is AI search.
In addition to touting Gemini 2.5 as a coding tool, Google just released a public beta for Jules, a “coding agent” that can work in the background fixing bugs and writing new features in your codebase. It’s a lot like what you can do with GitHub Copilot. Jules can even make an audio summary of its changes — so, a podcast about code commits? Jules has been in Google Labs for a few months, and is free to use during the beta period.
