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The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
Google's I/O 2026 keynote today was once again full of AI-related announcements including a new family of Gemini 3....
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With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual develo...
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How to use Google’s new information agents
Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert...
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Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start
Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and e...
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Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Smotrich says ICC seeking his arrest
After an ICC warrant request, Israel's Smotrich threatened to displace Palestinians from the West Bank.
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Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View
Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations fo...
World
The Guardian view on domestic workers: Indonesia shows that, against the odds, they are fighting for their rights | Editorial
Tens of millions of women and men worldwide are isolated and enjoy fewer protections than other labourers. Landmark...
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US imposes sanctions on Gaza flotilla organisers amid Israeli crackdown
Rights advocate accuses Washington of using 'terrorism label' to shut down Palestine activism internationally.
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The Guardian view on saving for old age: alarming shortfalls set the scene for a pensions overhaul | Editorial
Auto-enrolment has made retirement more secure for many. But some groups, including women, need more support Recomm...
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Putin arrives in China for talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears
They tell me no one outside Google has seen what we're about to see. No journalist has ever been in this building....