Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude
The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.
Google just declared itself a contender in AI design at IO 2026
Google says it’s designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.
Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes
Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.
You can now talk to your Gmail inbox, as seen at Google IO 2026
Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.
OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models
OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google’s SynthID to its products.
Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start
Google’s Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation — starting with Omni Flash.
Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool
Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside Antigravity 2.0 launch.
Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep
Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update
Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow you across the entire internet
The tech giant says it’s aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why it’s launching Universal Cart.
SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required
Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that the bigger obstacle is access, and that Claude solves it.