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.
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.
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.
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 introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration
At the Google I/O developer conference, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini’s base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.