The name Google is synonymous with online searches, but over the years the company has grown beyond search and now builds multiple consumer products, including software like Gmail, Chrome, Maps, Android, and hardware like the Pixel smartphones, Google Home, and Chromebooks. Its name can also be found on internet services such as Google Fi, Flights, Checkout, and Google Fiber. Here is all of the latest news about one of the most influential tech companies in the world.
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.
Google has been working on agentic AI for years. Building on the viral success of OpenClaw could finally tip the scales.
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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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.
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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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.
[Android Developers Blog]
Details are scant, but if you want to read about some of the capabilities, here’s my Android XR hands-on!
An exclusive look at Google’s new teleconferencing experiments.
When making an interactive experience with Project Genie, you can now pick a place in the US and Genie can use Street View data from that place for grounding. You can also prompt a style to change what that place looks like in your interactive AI-generated world.
It’s still expensive, though: Google AI Ultra plan, which used to cost $249.99 per month, now starts at $100 per month. There’s also a $200 per month option that includes access to Google’s Project Genie world model.
The two options for Ultra matches OpenAI’s approach for its Pro tier, which also now comes in $100 and $200 per month tiers.
That includes Xreal’s Project Aura, plus previously announced glasses with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker.
Join us on the live stream as soon as Google’s keynote wraps up. Hayden Field and I will be in the studio to talk over the biggest announcements, which I’m going to make the bold prediction right now probably involves a lot of AI. Tune in and post your thoughts in the live chat.
We’re here at the Shoreline Amphitheater for the keynote, liveblogging fingers at the ready. We also caught Phil and Vjeran in line. Not pictured is one Dieter Bohn, who approved of us upholding the Verge tradition of being first in the press line.
It’s time to usher in Gemini season.
That sparkle icon is showing up everywhere these days.
