Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses Leave a comment

A lot weirder is voice modifying in Google Docs, in a brand new function known as Docs Stay. By describing along with your voice what you need to write, an agent will dictate your phrases, generate textual content, pull in citations from the online, and purpose to show your stream-of-consciousness needs right into a coherent doc.

(Reminder: All these things could finally have adverts.)

For Gemini energy customers, Google is creating a brand new subscription tier, the AI Extremely plan, for $100 a month. It is usually dropping the value of its high Gemini AI Extremely from $250 a month to $200.

Gemini Omni

Google introduced Gemini Omni, an AI video generator akin to Sora 2. That was OpenAI’s generator that allow you to deepfake your self however was finally killed by the corporate.

Google’s method is constructing out a much more practical video generator that may incorporate actual video and extrapolate all method of AI-powered weirdness on high of that. Google is keen so that you can flip Omni’s eye on your self, placing your face entrance and heart. As such, selfie movies could be modified so as to add completely different backgrounds, kinds, or environments, making it seem that you’re someplace aside from your precise location.

The function was demoed onstage with a video of somebody recording themselves strolling by means of a steel sculpture. They then requested Omni to alter the construction to appear to be it was manufactured from bubbles. You may as well add photos and video of your self out of your digicam roll and generate nearly any number of cinematic fashion. Google says Omni is able to superior animations and enjoyable typography.

Google’s method is focusing Omni on video creation first, although it says still-image and textual content capabilities will probably be coming later. Finally, Google says it desires to let Omni create any output with any enter.

Learn extra about Omni in Reece Rogers’ story on WIRED. OmniFlash, a starter model of Omni, is out there beginning as we speak for Google AI+ Professional and Extremely subscribers.

Gemini Spark

Gemini Spark is Google’s reply to OpenClaw, the viral AI-powered helper bot that might be used to assist with actual life wants like shopping for groceries or researching trip choices (and sometimes inflicting you to wind up in a rip-off).

Spark can write emails or plan a block get together and pull info from recordsdata in your Google Drive. It’s meant to be a private agent only for you, maintaining along with your schedule so it is aware of the rhythms of your life, learns what main occasions are arising, and might help handle long-term or recurring duties for you.

Spark runs solely on Google Cloud, which Google says means it will probably course of background requests with out having to go away your system on. For now Spark simply works with different Google software program, although not with the Chrome browser fairly but. Google says that’s coming, together with third-party help, later this summer time.

WIRED’s Reece Rogers has a deeper dive into Spark.

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That can assist you handle your entire on-line purchasing, Google will begin deploying an agentic-powered purchasing expertise. As you seek for merchandise, Google will present you listings that it hosts for merchandise on the market at numerous retailers. You may as well store the old school approach, by going to varied web sites and browsing the listings there.

The large distinction is that now, Google will provide a common purchasing cart. Simply add the merchandise you’re fascinated about as you surf, and Google’s agent will hold your want record organized. It might probably warn you to cost modifications and let you know when there’s a more moderen model or a brand new colour choice out there. Whereas merchandise are sitting in your cart, you may have interaction Gemini to ask for extra particulars about your potential purchases, add different merchandise to the cart, or attempt to discover higher offers at different retailers.