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The pome blossoms are sprouting, the prima is yet rising earlier your alarm goes off, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai is wiping down the lenses of his Gemini-powered astute glasses. You cognize what that means: It's erstwhile again clip for Google I/O.
Google is going each retired for its yearly I/O developer conference, which begins connected Tuesday, May 20. The lawsuit is taking spot astatine Shoreline Amphitheater successful Mountain View, California, conscionable down the roadworthy from Google's headquarters. The keynote starts astatine 10 americium PDT connected Tuesday, and arsenic usual, it volition beryllium livestreamed.
Expect to hear and spot updates astir Android 16, the latest connected Google's XR glasses, however AI is changing the hunt experience, and however the Gemini interface is evolving and making its mode onto much of Google’s platforms.
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Google’s keynote address, which should unfastened with remarks from Pichai earlier the squad rolls retired each the caller stuff, starts Tuesday, May 20, astatine 10 americium PDT (1 p.m. EDT and 6pm BST). You tin ticker it connected Google’s I/O website oregon connected Google’s YouTube channel. The video provender is besides embedded close present astatine the apical of this page. Google is besides offering a provender successful American Sign Language.
Be definite to tune successful connected our Google I/O unrecorded blog, wherever WIRED's squad successful attendance volition beryllium offering up-to-the-minute quality updates and investigation of each the announcements. We'll station a nexus to the liveblog present erstwhile we get person to the main event.
Beyond the main keynote, there’s a consequent developer-focused keynote starting astatine 1:30 p.m. PDT (4:30 EDT).
What to Expect
So overmuch AI. Really, it's what we expect the bulk of Tuesday's keynote to cover. Google has been gathering retired its instrumentality quality efforts crossed each of its platforms, gathering it into the main hunt experience, Android's cardinal features, and the company's assorted productivity tools. Remember, it was conscionable 1 twelvemonth agone that we first heard astir AI Overviews, truthful we'll apt get updates connected however AI-powered hunt has grown implicit the past year, and a roadmap of wherever it's going next.
We'll besides perceive updates astir Gemini, of course, and however the latest exemplary is being utilized connected Android phones. Google has a fewer projects that are inactive successful their experimental phase—like the adjacent Gemini model, and its caller AI Mode for search—and I/O is the venue wherever Google typically pushes those things into wide release.
We already cognize rather a spot astir what's coming to Android this year, since Google already shared the design changes successful Android 16 and the caller scam-blocking capabilities of Android phones. We besides cognize determination won't apt beryllium immoderate Pixel oregon Nest hardware announced astatine I/O. The caller phones and gadgets typically get successful the fall.
Lastly, we are expecting a large update to Google's XR efforts. The institution showed disconnected Android XR past year, and fto america spell hands-on (face-on?) with its AI-powered astute glasses. Android XR brings Gemini's chatbot-style dependable interactions to a acceptable of eyeglasses, and incorporates an onboard camera for machine vision. Codenamed Project Moohan, we expect to spot an update connected wherever these glasses are successful their improvement cycle, and erstwhile they'll beryllium disposable for everyone to try.
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