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A livestream of the Google I/O 2026 keynote — It's time to I/O! Tune in to learn the latest news, announcements, and AI updates from Google. To watch this keynote interpreted in American Sign Language (A...
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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 — I/O 2026 kicks off today as Google's biggest event of the year to showcase what's new for users and developers.
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| New York Times: |
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 — Powered by a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box to answer longer queries, introducing a video-generation … | Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
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 — It can pluck answers to questions out of the data in your apps. — Google thinks that it's good to speak out loud and so …
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research; he helped found OpenAI and worked at Tesla — Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI, announced Tuesday that he's joining rival AI lab Anthropic.
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| The Keyword: |
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 — Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows. — Today, we're introducing Gemini 3.5 …
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| New York Times: |
OpenAI's win against Elon Musk leaves it free to continue its IPO plans, but it still faces many issues, like rising competition and dozens of other lawsuits — A jury's rejection of Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI was a major hurdle crossed. But the maker of ChatGPT faces a list of other problems.
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| New York Times: |
Elon Musk's OpenAI loss is set to speed up the AI juggernaut amid rising opposition; the case offered a rare glimpse into tech's workings, ending with a whimper — Even as protests increase, the collapse of Mr. Musk's suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman will speed up the artificial intelligence juggernaut.
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Apple unveils Apple Intelligence-powered accessibility features, subtitles generated on device, a Vision Pro feature for controlling power wheelchairs, and more — In what I expect will be an overarching theme at WWDC 2026, Apple's Accessibility group took the wraps off an impressive collection of features coming later this year.
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| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Epic says Fortnite has returned to Apple's App Store globally, after its US relaunch in 2025, signaling confidence in a favorable outcome in an ongoing lawsuit — Epic Games said on Tuesday its popular shooter title “Fortnite” has returned to global App Stores, as the videogame maker signaled confidence … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Plex says the price for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan will increase from $249.99 to $749.99 in July — Plex has announced a massive price increase for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan. Starting in July, Plex says that the Lifetime Plex Pass price will increase from $249.99 to a whopping $749.99.
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Microsoft unveils Intel-based business laptops: a 13" Surface Pro for $1,950+, a 13.8" or 15" Surface Laptop for $1,950+, and a 13" Surface Laptop for $1,300+ — Every IT leader and partner we work with is navigating the same challenges: AI is changing the demands of how teams work …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji is reorganizing hardware development to integrate silicon teams with product creation and speed up their work — Apple Inc. Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji is reorganizing hardware development and shifting oversight of key functions …
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| Kyle Baird / The Block: |
Polymarket partners with Nasdaq to launch markets tied to private company milestones, including IPO timing, valuations, earnings, and secondary market activity — Quick Take — Early offerings focus on AI, fintech, and crypto unicorns, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Kraken.
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
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 — At Google IO, we were given a tease of an upcoming “Android Halo” feature that, at least on first glance, isn't clear how or what it will do.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A CISA contractor maintained a now-offline GitHub repo that exposed credentials to AWS GovCloud accounts and CISA systems; CISA is investigating the situation — Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository …
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| Arjun Neil Alim / Financial Times: |
Standard Chartered plans to cut nearly 8,000 back-office positions by 2030, a 15%+ reduction in support functions in hubs like Bengaluru, amid growing AI usage — Comments from CEO Bill Winters come as bank sets out plans to cut almost 8,000 jobs — Standard Chartered plans … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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 — Images generated by ChatGPT will now carry Google's SynthID watermarks. … OpenAI is announcing updates today that aim …
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Blackstone announces a joint venture with Google to create a US company that will offer customers Google TPU access, and makes a $5B initial equity commitment — Investment firm to put $5 billion toward venture using Google's chips — Alphabet's Google and Blackstone plan to create … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from November 2025 to February 2026, stealing 1.8M+ people's data, medical records, and fingerprints — New York public health provider NYC Health and Hospitals says a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data … | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Roku launches a creator hub with licensed creator content and programming from partners like Peacock and HBO Max, alongside new FAST channels from top creators — Roku will also expand its licensing of creator content, its content chief tells THR. — Roku is making a big bet on creator content … | Josh Woodward / The Keyword: |
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 — Gemini is becoming a more helpful AI assistant, with an intuitive new UI, proactive daily briefs and Gemini Spark, an agent to help you get things done around the clock.
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| Gabrielle Fonrouge / CNBC: |
Radar, which helps retailers like American Eagle manage inventory and cut back on theft and lost merchandise, raised a $170M Series B at a $1B+ valuation — Radar, a startup backed by American Eagle CEO Jay Schottenstein that helps retailers manage in-store inventory and cut back on theft … | Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: |
Yahoo Finance launches AlphaSpace, a customizable research dashboard with an AI assistant, for subscribers of its $479.40/year or $39.95/month Gold plan — Any finance professional who has used the Bloomberg Terminal's brightly colored keyboard knows a secret: if you figure out the right question to ask, data is at your fingertips.| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Relay, which builds banking and money management software for small businesses, raised $50M; it previously raised ~$51.5M, including a $32.2M Series B in 2024 — Relay, which builds banking and money management software for small businesses, raised $50 million, CEO Yoseph West tells Axios exclusively.
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