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Veo 3 can generate videos — and soundtracks to go along with them

Google’s latest video-generating AI model, Veo 3, can create audio to go along with the clips that it generates. On Tuesday during the Google I/O 2025 developer conference, Google unveiled Veo 3, which the company claims can generate sound effects, background noises, and even dialogue to accompany the videos it creates. Veo 3 also improves […]

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

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

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’s new SynthID Detector can help spot AI slop

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

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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Android Studio adds ‘agentic AI’ with Journeys feature, Agent Mode

Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. In addition to the rollout of the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro model, Android Studio is gaining a new “agentic AI” capability called Journeys and will soon introduce an

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Google releases Wear OS 6 with Material 3 Expressive design refresh

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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