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Google’s 3D teleconferencing platform, now called Beam, will ship later in 2025

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Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it is rebranding Project Starline, its corporate-focused teleconferencing platform that uses 3D imaging, and recommitting to shipping it this year. Starline, now called Google Beam, will come to “early customers” like Deloitte, Salesforce, Citadel, NEC, and Duolingo later in 2025 via Google’s previously announced partnership with HP, Google […]

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Google’s AI Mode rolls out to US, will add support for deeper research, comparison shopping, and more

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Google’s AI Mode, the experimental Google Search feature that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions via an AI interface, will roll out to everyone in the U.S. starting this week, the company announced at its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. The feature builds on Google’s existing AI-powered search experience, AI Overviews, which

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Google AI Ultra: You’ll have to pay $249.99 per month for Google’s best AI

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Google is launching a new subscription plan called Google AI Ultra to bring more of its AI products under one roof. The new plan, announced at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, delivers the “highest level of access” to Google’s AI-powered apps and services, the tech giant says. Priced at $249.99 per month, AI Ultra includes

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Google brings a music-generating AI model to its API with Lyria RealTime

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Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it is making the AI model that powers its experimental music production app, MusicFX DJ, available via an API. The model, Lyria RealTime, is now in Google’s Gemini API and AI Studio platform. It can mix musical genres, change instruments, and alter the mood of AI-generated music, giving

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Google releases Wear OS 6 with Material 3 Expressive design refresh

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Google announced new features for Wear OS 6 at Google I/O 2025 today, giving the operating system a design makeover with Material 3 Expressive, the design language the company unveiled earlier this month. Google released the developer preview of Wear OS 6, which is based on Android 16, for testing on Tuesday. With Wear OS

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Google’s new SynthID Detector can help spot AI slop

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Google is launching a way to quickly check whether an image, video, audio file, or snippet of text was created using one of its AI tools. SynthID Detector, announced Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, is a verification portal that uses Google’s SynthID watermarking technology to help identify AI-generated content. Users can upload a file, and

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Google I/O 2025 live coverage: Google AI Ultra, Project Mariner, Gemini app updates, and more

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Canvas uses Gemini to help you vibe code Image Credits:Google Woodward also introduced Canvas, which he described as a Gemini-powered interactive space for co-creation. In a demo, he showed how Canvas lets him transform a detailed, written report into all kinds of new things, including a dynamic web page, an infographic, a helpful quiz, and

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