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Google I/O 2024: everything announced

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Google I/O just ended — and it was packed with AI announcements. As expected, the event focused heavily on Google’s Gemini AI models, along with the ways they’re being integrated into apps like Workspace and Chrome.

If you didn’t get to tune in to the event live, you can catch up with all the latest from Google in the roundup below.

And you’ll also be able to ask questions with video, right in Search....

The US moves to stop buying uranium from Russia and start producing it at home

Barrels stored at the Energy Fuels White Mesa Mill uranium production facility in Blanding, Utah, on June 12th, 2023.  | Photo: Getty Images

President Joe Biden signed a new law that bars the US from importing uranium from Russia in the hopes of jumpstarting domestic mining to fuel nuclear reactors. The law also unlocks $2.7 billion in federal funding to shore up that domestic supply chain, which Congress previously approved pending limits on imports from Russia.

Russia has...

Watch this screaming, rainbow-clad musician demo Google’s AI DJ

Well, that’s one way to kick off a developer-focused tech event. | Image: Google

Developer conferences aren’t exactly known for having an energetic, party-like atmosphere, but thankfully, that didn’t stop Google’s latest hype man. The company’s I/O event this year was kicked off by Marc Rebillet — an artist known in online spaces for pairing improvised electronic tracks with amusing (and typically loud) vocals. He also wears a lot of robes.

“If you have no idea who I...

Google I/O 2024: AI Overviews in Search are rolling out to users this week

It's been teased and tested for over a year, but it's finally here: AI Overviews in Search.

The first major announcement of Google's I/O 2024 event, the tech giant started off with the reveal that its Search Generative Experience (SGE) labs feature will be rolling out to US users within the week. This new feature allows Google to provide AI-generated overviews or summaries...

Ask Photos is Google's new AI feature for Google Photos

At Google's annual I/O conference, the tech giant announced a more powerful AI-based search experience within Google Photos.

People upload 6 billion photos and videos to the platform every day, and now they'll be able to search for those elements more efficiently using not just keywords but phrases.

CEO Sundar Pichai gave one example: "Say you're at a parking station...

Google I/O 2024: 'AI Agents' are AI personal assistants that can return your shoes

Google will be sharing lots of products ready to utilize at today's big Google I/O event.

However, one announcement from CEO Sundar Pichai was more of an idea that's in the works: AI Agents. According to Pichai, AI Agents are still in "early days," but their description shows what Google envisions what AI can do for users. 

Pichai described AI agents as "intelligent systems that show reasoning, planning, and memory" and can "think multiple steps ahead" to complete more...

Google I/O: Project Astra can tell where you live just by looking out the window

Google has a new AI agent that can tell you things about what's around you. A lot of things.

Called "Project Astra," it's a Gemini-based multimodal AI tool that lets you point your phone's camera at real-life stuff and get a spoken description of what you're looking at.

In a demo, shown during Google's I/O conference Tuesday, the tool was pointed at a loudspeaker, correctly identifying a part of it as a tweeter. Far more impressively, the phone's camera was then turned onto a snippet of code...

Google's AI model just got faster with Gemini 1.5 Flash

Gemini is getting a facelift.

Sundar Pichai announced a new model of Google Gemini, Google's AI model, at the company's annual Google I/O event on May 14. 

"We want everyone to benefit from what Gemini can do," Pichai said.

Gemini 1.5 Pro is a "natively multi-model" originally announced in February. The company announced at I/O that it will help support AI Overviews, Ask Photos, NotebookLM, and more. In the seemingly perpetual fight to the front...

Google Search at Google I/O: You can now ask questions with video and 3 other features

Google's vision of an AI-driven future for search is coming to fruition with the rollout of AI Overviews in the US, and soon globally. This feature, previously dubbed the Search Generative Experience (SGE), introduces AI-generated summaries at the top of many search results, changing how billions interact with Google Search.

At the forefront of the tech giant's generative AI additions to search, revealed at its I/O 2024 event, are AI Overviews. This new tool aims to streamline search...

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Gemini will integrate with Calendar, Tasks, and Keep

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Part of Google’s vision at its I/O developer conference this year has involved transforming its Gemini AI chatbot into more of a digital assistant that specializes in dealing with our day-to-day tedium. One of the new ways it’s doing that is by integrating Gemini with Google Calendar, Tasks, and Keep.

The new integrations, which Google says are coming “soon” come by way of the extensions the company added to Bard last year and have...