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Google I/O 2025, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, takes place Tuesday and Wednesday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. We’re on the ground bringing you the latest updates from the event.  I/O showcases product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. We’ve got plenty of news relating to Android, Chrome, Google Search, YouTube, and — of course — Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini. Google hosted a separate event dedicated to Android updates: The Android Show. The company announced new ways to find lost Android phones and other items, additional device-level features for its Advanced Protection program, security tools to protect…

Google announced during Google I/O 2025 that it’s rolling out Project Mariner, the company’s experimental AI agent that browses and uses websites, to more users and developers. Google also says it’s significantly updated how Project Mariner works, allowing the agent to take on nearly a dozen tasks at a time. U.S. subscribers to Google’s new $249.99-per-month AI Ultra plan will get access to Project Mariner, and the company says support for more countries is coming soon. Google also says it’s bringing Project Mariner’s capabilities to the Gemini API and Vertex AI, allowing developers to build out applications powered by the…

Google announced several updates to the Gemini AI chatbot app during Google I/O 2025, including more broadly available multimodal AI features, updated AI models, and deeper integrations with Google’s suite of products. Starting Tuesday, Google is rolling out Gemini Live’s camera and screen-sharing capabilities to all users on iOS and Android. The feature, powered by Project Astra, allows users to have near-real-time verbal conversations with Gemini, while simultaneously streaming video from their smartphone’s camera or screen to the AI model. For example, while walking around a new city, users could point their phone at a building and ask Gemini Live…

Google’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 upon its predecessor, Veo 2, in terms of the quality of footage it can generate, Google says. Veo 3 is available beginning Tuesday in Google’s Gemini chatbot app for subscribers to Google’s $249.99-per-month AI Ultra plan, where it can be prompted with text or an…

Google’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’s existing AI-powered search experience, AI Overviews, which display AI-generated summaries at the top of its search results page. Launched last year, AI Overviews saw mixed results as Google’s AI offered questionable answers and advice, like a suggestion to use glue on pizza, among other things. Image Credits:Google However, Google claims AI Overviews…

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 “fine details” like fabrics, water droplets, and animal fur, Google says. The model can handle both photorealistic and abstract styles, creating images in a range of aspect ratios and up to 2K resolution. “Imagen 4 is [a] huge step forward in quality,” Josh Woodward, who leads Google’s Labs group, said during a press briefing. “We’ve also [paid] a lot of attention and…

Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it’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’s preferred language in real time. Voice, tone, and expression are all preserved in the translation. The tech giant says the new feature has a variety of use cases. For instance, it can be used for English-speaking grandchildren talking to their Spanish-speaking grandparents. Or, it could be used by companies…

Google is launching a new subscription plan called Google AI Ultra to bring more of its AI products under one roof. The new plan, announced at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, delivers the “highest level of access” to Google’s AI-powered apps and services, the tech giant says. Priced at $249.99 per month, AI Ultra includes Google’s Veo 3 video generator, the company’s new Flow video editing app, and a powerful AI capability called Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think mode (which hasn’t launched yet). “[Ultra is] for people that want to be on the absolute cutting edge of AI from Google,”…

At Google I/O 2025, the tech giant unveiled new capabilities coming to NotebookLM, its AI-based note-taking and research assistant. Most notably, the company is launching Video Overviews. Google says users will soon be able to turn dense multimedia, such as raw notes, PDFs, and images, into digestible visual presentations. Since its launch, NotebookLM has been about helping users understand and interact with complex documents. With this new capability, NotebookLM will be taking a more visual approach to helping users understand different topics and ideas. NotebookLM has already taken an audio approach to helping users understand materials with Audio Overviews, a…