<p>Google on Wednesday detailed its plans to bring ads to AI Mode, the company&#8217;s AI-powered experience in Google Search. Ads may appear &#8220;where relevant&#8221; below and &#8220;integrated into&#8221; AI Mode responses as part of a test, Google says. AI Mode lets Google Search users ask a question and get an AI-generated response, with the ability [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google co-founder Sergey Brin said he &#8220;made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass&#8221; during an onstage interview at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday. Brin was a surprise addition to an interview with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis conducted by Big Technology Podcast&#8217;s Alex Kantrowitz. Brin went on to say he &#8220;didn&#8217;t know anything about [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s family of &#8220;open&#8221; AI models, Gemma, is growing. During Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, Google took the wraps off Gemma 3n, a model designed to run &#8220;smoothly&#8221; on phones, laptops, and tablets. Available in preview starting Tuesday, Gemma 3n can handle audio, text, images, and videos, according to Google. Models efficient enough to run [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google says it will commit up to $150 million to the consumer eyewear company Warby Parker to jointly develop AI-powered smart glasses based on Android XR, the companies said on Tuesday during Google I/O 2025. Google has already committed $75 million to Warby Parker’s product development and commercialization costs, the companies said in a press [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to showcase your newest innovation to a massive AI community, this is it! You have until this Friday, May 23 at 11:59 p.m. PT, to secure one of the few remaining exhibit tables at TechCrunch Sessions: AI and position your brand at the center of the conversation [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s AI Mode, the experimental Google Search feature that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions via an AI interface, will roll out to everyone in the U.S. starting this week, the company announced at its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. The feature builds on Google&#8217;s existing AI-powered search experience, AI Overviews, which [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is launching a way to quickly check whether an image, video, audio file, or snippet of text was created using one of its AI tools. SynthID Detector, announced Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, is a verification portal that uses Google&#8217;s SynthID watermarking technology to help identify AI-generated content. Users can upload a file, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it&#8217;s bringing real-time speech translation to Google Meet. The feature leverages a large language audio model from Google DeepMind to allow for a natural, free-flowing conversation with someone in a different language, Google says. Speech translation in Meet translates spoken words into the listener&#8217;s preferred language in real [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is upgrading its most capable Gemini AI models. On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company announced Deep Think, an &#8220;enhanced&#8221; reasoning mode for its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro model. Deep Think allows the model to consider multiple answers to questions before responding, boosting its performance on certain benchmarks. &#8220;[Deep Think] pushes model performance [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it is rebranding Project Starline, its corporate-focused teleconferencing platform that uses 3D imaging, and recommitting to shipping it this year. Starline, now called Google Beam, will come to &#8220;early customers&#8221; like Deloitte, Salesforce, Citadel, NEC, and Duolingo later in 2025 via Google&#8217;s previously announced partnership with HP, Google [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. In addition to the rollout of the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro model, Android Studio is gaining a new &#8220;agentic AI&#8221; capability called Journeys and will soon introduce an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it is making the AI model that powers its experimental music production app, MusicFX DJ, available via an API. The model, Lyria RealTime, is now in Google&#8217;s Gemini API and AI Studio platform. It can mix musical genres, change instruments, and alter the mood of AI-generated music, giving [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s latest video-generating AI model, Veo 3, can create audio to go along with the clips that it generates. On Tuesday during the Google I/O 2025 developer conference, Google unveiled Veo 3, which the company claims can generate sound effects, background noises, and even dialogue to accompany the videos it creates. Veo 3 also improves [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At the Google I/O 2025 developer conference, Google launched Stitch, an AI-powered tool to help design web and mobile app front ends by generating the necessary UI elements and code. Stitch can be prompted to create app UIs with a few words or even an image, providing HTML and CSS markup for the designs it [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is rolling out a new image-generating AI model, Imagen 4, that the company claims delivers higher-quality results than its previous image generator, Imagen 3. Unveiled at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, Imagen 4 is capable of rendering &#8220;fine details&#8221; like fabrics, water droplets, and animal fur, Google says. The model can handle both photorealistic [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s Gemini AI app now has more than 400 million monthly active users, CEO Sundar Pichai said during a press briefing ahead of Google I/O 2025. Google&#8217;s AI chatbot app is now approaching a similar scale to OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT app. According to recent court filings, Google estimated in March that ChatGPT had around 600 million [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At Google I/O 2025, the company unveiled a slew of new AI Workspace features coming to Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Vids. Most notably, Gmail is getting personalized smart replies and a new inbox-cleaning feature, while Vids is getting new ways to create and edit content. Personalized smart replies in Gmail will help you draft [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At its Google I/O 2025 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced Flow, a new AI-powered video tool geared toward filmmaking. The company said it&#8217;s using a trio of its AI models — Veo for video generation, Imagen for image generation, and Gemini for text and prompting — to power the new tool. Flow is following [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is taking on Meta&#8217;s Ray-Ban Meta glasses by announcing new partnerships at Google I/O 2025 with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to create smart glasses based on Android XR. Google launched the Android XR platform with Qualcomm and Samsung last year. While it didn&#8217;t talk about specific devices then, the latest announcement indicates the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI Ultra, which is U.S.-only for now, joins a growing group of ultra-premium AI subscriptions.</p>