Defections from Google DeepMind prompt questions about Alphabet’s efforts to stay at the forefront of AI

With Google's AI models losing leaderboard places and its pace of model releases lagging, some are questioning if the ...

Everything announced at the Google I/O 2026 keynote: AI, more AI, and smart glasses

Welcome to the agentic era.

Google Poised to Lose Two More Senior AI Staffers to Anthropic

Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Alphabet Inc.’s Google are planning to leave for rival Anthropic PBC, ...
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Everything we saw at Google I/O: Gemini 3.5, Android XR glasses, Spark, and more

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...

Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

Ahead of a planned IPO, SpaceX inked a deal to rent compute capacity to Google for $920 million per month for 32 months.

Google isn't releasing its next big AI model yet, drawing groans at its I/O conference

Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model will launch next month, announces CEO Sundar Pichai at I/O 2026—disappointing attendees.
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I Used Google’s New Gemini-Powered ‘Help Me Create’ Tool in Docs. It’s Great at Corporate-Speak

Google has injected Docs, Drive, Sheets, and Slides with its Gemini assistant, adding new features that can pull information from your emails and the web to help you draft content. I gave it a whirl.