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Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Google Flow Music is getting a dedicated mobile app.

It’s already available on iOS, and coming to Android soon. Google is also adding granular editing tools for changing portions of an AI-generated song, tweaking beat drops, or rewriting lyrics. It’s also adding the ability to generate “covers” and music videos, so you can countrify that punk song you prompted.

If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can

Google has been working on agentic AI for years. Building on the viral success of OpenClaw could finally tip the scales.

Hayden Field
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Google’s big ask.

Yesterday Emma Roth wrote that Google’s pitch for AI at I/O demands both your trust and your personal data. Going by the comment section, that’s a trade many of you are no longer willing to make.

monterxz:

Google lost the first long ago and will never get any more of the second out of me.

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Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Google’s Find Hub gets location sharing notifications.

The Find Hub app on Android has been updated, allowing you to create notifications for when someone arrives or leaves a set location, like home or work. The person you’re tracking will be alerted to the notifications, and can disable them at any time.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google is launching an Android version of its AI Studio vibe coding tool.

The app, which you can pre-register for on Google Play, will let you use AI and prompts to starting building other apps.

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A screenshot from the Google Play listing for the AI Studio app.
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John Higgins
John Higgins
Pointer remote support is coming to Google TV.

Google TV developers can add motion-controlled input support for navigation on the home page and within apps. LG TVs have included its magic remote for years, but those TVs run webOS and not Google TV, so this could be a sign new Google TV pointer remotes are coming.