Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild
Google's new anything-to-anything AI model is wild Just a stuffed deer having the time of his life. | Image: Gemini / The Verge Last year I deepfaked my kid’s stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted […]
The post-search Google era begins
The post-search Google era begins Google is many things, but most of the time it’s a verb: It is what it is to search the internet for information. But what if it’s an AI agent doing the searching? And it’s doing it proactively? Without even telling you about it? In the world Google imagines, in […]
The cost of the smart home is going up
The cost of the smart home is going up Google is expanding its AI-powered Gemini for Home capabilities beyond its cameras and smart speakers to other manufacturers to sell more subscriptions. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Selling the smart home has been hard. Even Amazon has lost money in the space, […]
Vibe coding is coming to your phone
Vibe coding is coming to your phone Coming to your homescreen soon: your own app. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge “There’s an app for that” was the promise of the App Store from the very beginning. The app that will get your phone to do the thing you want it to? It’s just […]
You can now remix other people’s YouTube Shorts with AI
You can now remix other people's YouTube Shorts with AI Google announced a new YouTube Shorts Remix feature that lets users restyle clips or even insert themselves into other people’s videos using Gemini Omni. Now, at the bottom of a YouTube Short, when you click the remix icon, you’ll see an option to “reimagine” it. […]
If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
If Google can't make AI agents useful, maybe no one can For years, tech companies have promised AI will give everyone a capable personal assistant but delivered something more like a clueless intern. Over the past six months, that has started to change, thanks largely to the viral open-source AI agent platform OpenClaw. And among […]
Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple’s Handoff
Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple's Handoff At launch, Continue On will only allow you to move tasks from a phone to a tablet. | Image: Google Google is adding a new Android feature that resembles Apple’s Handoff, allowing you to start a task on your Android phone and continue it right […]
Wear OS 7 will keep track of deliveries and sports scores on your wrist
Wear OS 7 will keep track of deliveries and sports scores on your wrist A Pixel Watch 4 running Wear OS 6, not Wear OS 7. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Among the flurry of today’s Google I/O announcements, Google shared details about Wear OS 7, the next major update to […]
Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?
Demis Hassabis said this might be the 'foothills of the singularity.' What? Welcome to a “profound moment for humanity,” according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O’s keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying: Google’s cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI’s incredible potential for the benefit of the entire world. When […]
We react to Google I/O 2026
We react to Google I/O 2026 What better way to unwind from a two-hour-long keynote presentation than to pour over the weirdest and wildest details, from a Gmail bot you can converse with to DeepMind’s leader saying the singularity is near. The Vergecast went live right after the show, with Senior AI Reporter Hayden Field […]