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Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs, and more (www.platformer.news)
2026-5-20 Google AI Layoffs

Google unveils Continue On, a new feature in Android 17 that will let users move tasks between Android devices, similar to Apple's Handoff feature (9to5google.com)
2026-5-20 Android Google Apple

Google updates Project Genie, its interactive world builder, with Street View integration, and expands access to the tool to AI Ultra subscribers globally (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more (www.cnet.com)
2026-5-20 Google Mobile

Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 Google

Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years (search.slashdot.org)
2026-5-20 Google

Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app (www.androidcentral.com)
2026-5-20 Google YouTube

Google unveils Pics, an AI image editor in Workspace that lets users edit specific elements and modify text, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra users (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal to hire 20+ researchers from Contextual AI, including CEO Douwe Kiela, and license its technology (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month; attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they expected (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-20 Google Google I/O

Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and with XReal's Project Aura, all set to arrive this fall (www.wired.com)
2026-5-20 Android Google Samsung

Google unveils Universal Cart, a shopping assistant that works “across merchants”, built on the Universal Commerce Protocol, rolling out in the US today (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-20 Google

Google's web-based AI Studio now lets users build native Android apps; Google says the apps are for personal use only for now and publishing is on the roadmap (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-20 Android Google AI

Google introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate multiple agents, alongside an Antigravity CLI tool and SDK (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-20 Google

Google says Gemini's MAUs grew to 900M+ across 230 countries, up from 400M at I/O 2025, and launches Neural Expressive, a new design language for Gemini (blog.google)
2026-5-20 Google Google I/O

Google restructures its AI plans, introducing a $100/month AI Ultra plan for developers and cutting the top-tier Ultra subscription from $250 to $200/month (www.zdnet.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

OpenAI adds support for Google's SynthID watermarks in AI images, and previews a public portal to let users verify if an image was generated by OpenAI's tools (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Google launches the Gemini Omni multimodal model, saying it can “create anything from any input”, starting with video generation, for Google AI subscribers (venturebeat.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its “strongest agentic and coding model yet”, for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode (blog.google)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 Google

Google announces Gemini Spark, a “24/7 personal AI agent” that is powered by Gemini 3.5 and supports integrations with Google Workspace apps, including Gmail (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Google teases Android Halo, which makes an AI agent's status visible via “subtle communication” at the top of the phone screen, coming later this year (9to5google.com)
2026-5-20 Android Google AI

Google says it is expanding access to CodeMender, an “AI agent for code security” it debuted in October, by inviting select groups of experts to test the API (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Sundar Pichai says Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up from 480T tokens per month a year ago and 9.7T tokens per month two years ago (www.axios.com)
2026-5-20 Google

Google unveils conversational features for Gmail, Docs, and Keep, letting users ask natural language questions, rolling out to AI Pro and Ultra subs this summer (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 NLP Google AI

A livestream of the Google I/O 2026 keynote (www.youtube.com)
2026-5-20 Google Google I/O

A live blog of the Google I/O 2026 keynote, where the company is set to announce the “latest AI breakthroughs and updates” in Gemini, Android, and more (9to5google.com)
2026-5-20 Android Google AI Google I/O

Sources: Google and Blackstone plan to create an AI cloud company to monetize Google's TPUs to external parties; Blackstone plans to put $5B in the venture (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-19 Google AI

Sources: competition for Google's TPUs among its employees and researchers intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-19 Google AI

Sources: internal competition among Google staff and researchers for TPUs intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 Google AI

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