The 13 Biggest Announcements At Google I/o 2026

Google’s I/O 2026 keynote coming was erstwhile again afloat of AI-related announcements including a caller family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, caller features for Search and Gmail, and updates astir its Project Aura smart glasses.

Google launched updated AI models astatine I/O, starting pinch Gemini 3.5 Flash, pinch Gemini 3.5 Pro pursuing adjacent month. Starting today, Gemini 3.5 Flash will beryllium nan default exemplary for nan Gemini app and AI Mode successful Search. Google says nan caller exemplary is importantly faster, amended astatine handling agentic tasks, offers improved agentic coding capabilities, and generates “richer, much interactive web UIs and graphics.” It besides has improved guardrails that, according to Google, will make Gemini 3.5 Flash little apt to make harmful contented and little apt to accidentally emblem safe queries arsenic unsafe.

Along pinch Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google is besides launching a redesign for nan Gemini app. The caller look, which Google calls “neural expressive,” features caller animations, pops of color, a caller font, and haptic feedback. It’s rolling retired starting May 19th connected nan web and successful nan Gemini app connected Android and iOS.

Along pinch Gemini 3.5, Google is launching an wholly caller family of AI models it calls Gemini Omni. The first, Omni Flash, is rolling retired starting coming successful nan Gemini app, Google Flow, and YouTube Shorts. At launch, Omni Flash will beryllium capable to make video clips from prompts that see a assortment of inputs including text, photos, video, and audio (unlike Google’s Veo model, which is only matter to video). Down nan line, Google says Omni will beryllium capable to “create thing from immoderate input.”

The caller always-on AI supplier that tin constitute emails, create study guides, and support an oculus retired for hidden in installments paper fees for you is Google’s ‘we person OpenClaw astatine home.’ Powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark runs successful nan inheritance utilizing virtual machines connected Google Cloud 24/7 and tin link to Google Workspace apps including Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides, arsenic good arsenic third-party apps for illustration Canva and Instacart. Google besides plans to grow Spark’s capabilities pinch entree to section files done nan Gemini app connected macOS.

Google will fto users vibe-code full autochthonal Android apps now, which they tin yet moreover people to nan Play Store consecutive from AI Studio. The characteristic includes an embedded Android emulator for viewing and editing app previews. Users tin besides plug successful their telephone to instal their app straight from AI Studio for testing. Apps tin beryllium exported to Android Studio aliases GitHub, aliases saved arsenic a ZIP file.

Google says it will besides “soon” let users to people vibe-coded apps exclusively for friends and family, alternatively than publicly. Support for Firebase integrations is besides coming later.

Google showed disconnected an updated type of its Project Aura smart glasses, which it’s collaborating connected pinch Xreal. The glasses were primitively unveiled past year, but The Verge’s Victoria Song sewage a look astatine an updated type astatine I/O. The outer compute puck for nan glasses has been redesigned, and a fingerprint sensor has been added to it (along pinch a lanyard truthful you tin deterioration nan puck and nan glasses). We besides sewage to effort retired immoderate caller features successful Google’s XR platform, including widgets for show glasses, Gemini integrations pinch Google Calendar and Google Keep, and improved Gemini performance.

Along pinch Project Aura, 2 caller pairs of Android XR smart glasses are launching this fall, 1 from Warby Parker and 1 from Gentle Monster. Google announced partnerships pinch some brands at past year’s I/O, and now we yet cognize what those glasses will look like. Similar to nan guidelines Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, these will beryllium audio-only (no display). They’ll support features for illustration unrecorded translation, navigation assistance pinch Gemini, and notification summaries.

Google is launching a “Universal Cart” that users tin adhd products to from YouTube, Search, Gemini, and Gmail. Google says this “intelligent shopping cart” useful crossed different merchants and services, for illustration Nike, Target, Walmart, Ulta Beauty, Sephora, Wayfair, and Shopify. So, you could adhd products from Nike and Target to your Universal Cart and cheque retired from some astatine nan aforesaid time.

According to Google, Universal Cart tin spot imaginable issues pinch products successful your cart, arsenic well, for illustration flagging incompatible parts for a gaming PC. It tin besides construe perks and loyalty info from Google Wallet costs methods to thief users find savings aliases gain points. Universal Cart is launching successful Search and Gemini this summer, pinch YouTube and Gmail coming later.

Google is expanding Gmail’s already robust hunt devices pinch a type of nan Gemini Live acquisition for your inbox. Clicking an icon successful nan hunt barroom lets you inquire questions by talking and alternatively of having to wade done a database of applicable email chains nan Gmail Live interface will extract and present pertinent accusation based connected your prompt. It could beryllium a faster measurement to propulsion up a circumstantial confirmation codification for a edifice reservation, for example. Similar voice-driven AI features will besides beryllium coming to Google Docs and Keep and beryllium capable to propulsion successful information from Google Drive and Gmail.

Google Workspace is getting a caller app called Pics designed to make it easier to use iterative AI-generated updates to images. Pics is powered by Nano Banana 2 and Gemini and allows users to make changes by clicking connected a circumstantial portion of an image and leaving a remark describing nan edits, alternatively of having to constitute an full punctual that includes nan required updates. Eventually, Google plans to incorporated Pics’ capabilities into different Workspace apps to further streamline image editing.

Google is changing up nan hunt box. Now it will grow to springiness users much abstraction for longer queries and see AI-generated suggestions, akin to autocomplete. Users aren’t constricted to searching pinch text, either — Google will now fto you usage text, images, files, videos, and moreover Chrome tabs arsenic hunt input.

Search is besides getting “information agents,” which tin springiness you summarized updates connected circumstantial topics aliases questions, pulling from blogs, news, societal media posts, and more. These agents will beryllium launching this summer, starting pinch AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

Google’s caller “generative UI” characteristic tin make visuals successful Search, for illustration simulations aliases interactive tables and graphs. Search will besides soon beryllium capable to make “mini apps” for tasks aliases topics users hunt for aggregate times, for illustration a civilization dashboard for readying an event.

When it was introduced past twelvemonth astatine I/O 2025, Google’s premium AI Ultra subscription costs $249.99 per period for entree to its astir precocious AI models, higher usage limits, and early entree to caller tools. Google is now introducing 2 caller pricing tiers for AI Ultra to lucifer OpenAI. It now starts astatine $100 per month, while a $200 per period action includes entree to Google’s Project Genie.

In an effort to make it easier for group to place and corroborate erstwhile images person been generated aliases altered by AI, Google is expanding its AI discovery devices to Chrome and Search. Starting today, uploading aliases selecting online images pinch Search (including devices for illustration Google Lens and Circle to Search) tin uncover much specifications astir really aliases wherever nan image was created utilizing Google’s SynthID watermarking technology and C2PA Content Credentials. Additional functionality done Chrome that lets you circle questionable images connected websites to spot their provenance is coming later.

After renaming Project Starline to Google Beam past year, Google is now experimenting pinch lifelike AI agents that tin do much than conscionable talk to you during a call. The Verge’s Sean Hollister sewage to effort an early demo of Sophie; a Beam video supplier designed to make interactions pinch AI consciousness much personable. Although Sophie didn’t look successful 3D for illustration erstwhile you’re talking to different personification utilizing nan $25,000 HP Dimension system, nan supplier tin respond to questions, publication documents held up to nan camera, and look up things for illustration edifice recommendations. During our demo, Google besides demonstrated group calls utilizing Beam — a characteristic that’s been successful improvement for a fewer years and will activity pinch devices for illustration Google Meet and Zoom.