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2025-05-20

Project Astra, Google's vision for a universal AI assistant, is pulling into focus

Last year at Google I/O, one of the most interesting demos was Project Astra, an early version of a multimodal AI that could recognize your surroundings in real-time and answer questions about them conversationally. While the demo offered a glimpse into Google's plans for more powerful AI assistants, the company was careful to note that what we saw was a "research preview."


One year later though, Google is laying out its vision for Project Astra to one day power a version of Gemini that can act as a "universal AI assistant." And Project Astra has gotten some important upgrades to help the company accomplish this. Google h [...]

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2025-05-20

Google I/O 2025 recap: AI updates, Android XR, Google Beam and everything else announced at the annual keynote

Today is one of the most important days on the tech calendar as Google kicked off its I/O developer event with its annual keynote. As ever, the company had many updates for a wide range of products to [...]

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2025-05-19

Google I/O 2025: New Android 16, Gemini AI and everything else to expect at Tuesday's keynote

Google I/O, the search giant's annual developer conference, kicks off on Tuesday, May 20. The event is arguably the most important on the company's annual calendar, offering the opportunity [...]

Match Score: 177.26

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2025-02-21

Apple Intelligence is headed to the Vision Pro in April, dev beta available today

The rumors are true: Apple confirmed today that the Vision Pro will get Apple Intelligence features in April with the arrival of visionOS 2.4. A developer beta is also rolling out today for the less p [...]

Match Score: 70.90

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2025-05-20

Google's new text-to-speech can switch languages on the fly

Google is enhancing Gemini's text-to-speech (TTS). On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company previewed a new TTS feature, built on native audio output, that can "converse in more expressive [...]

Match Score: 66.95

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2025-03-05

Google stuffs even more AI tools into online shopping

As much money as Big Tech is sinking into generative AI, it's no surprise to see more AI-powered tools materializing to valiantly assist you in spending your hard-earned cash. (Yay?) Snark aside, [...]

Match Score: 64.14

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2025-05-19

How to watch the Google I/O 2025 keynote tomorrow

It's still May, which means it's still Google time. After showing off Android's new look at The Android Show last week, the company still has its developer conference to check off the [...]

Match Score: 58.60

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2025-01-06

Gemini AI smarts are coming to Google Home to make the Assistant a better conversationalist

During CES 2025, I had a chance to check out a demo of the way Google is integrating Gemini capabilities into its smart home platform via devices like the Nest Audio, Nest Hub and Nest Cameras. The ma [...]

Match Score: 58.24

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2025-05-20

Google I/O 2025: Live updates on Gemini, Android XR, Android 16 updates and more

Ready to see Google's next big slate of AI announcements? That's precisely what we expect to be unveiled today at Google I/O 2025, the search giant's developer conference that kicks off [...]

Match Score: 57.80

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2025-03-14

Google is removing Assistant from most phones this year

Google Assistant's days are numbered. Google announced Friday that all Android devices are switching to Gemini as their default assistant and "the classic Google Assistant will no longer be [...]

Match Score: 56.91