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Developer Knowledge API and Model Context Protocol server. Together connect AI agents to Google’s developer and Google Cloud documentation. Google is previewing the Developer Knowledge API and an ...

AI took center stage at NRF 2026, and few moments underscored its importance more than Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote, where he outlined how shopping is evolving in an increasingly agentic, ...

Google DeepMind announced this week that it is adding Agentic Vision to Gemini 3 Flash, enabling the model to actively explore images by generating and running Python code that zooms, crops, and ...

Google is pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence with a groundbreaking new feature for its Gemini 3 Flash model. The company announced Agentic Vision, a powerful capability designed to make ...

Gmail is being rethought as a proactive assistant system. Google is cautious about changing workflows used by billions. This vision is exploratory, ambitious, and far from finished. What is the first ...

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In brief: Google introduced Android XR, its answer to Apple's visionOS, in 2024. In October of this year, Samsung released the first headset for Google's platform, which undercut the Apple Vision Pro ...

The Gemini API improvements include simpler controls over thinking, more granular control over multimodal vision processing, and ‘thought signatures’ to improve function calling and image generation.

Google has published a guide on how to use the beta version of its Play Age Signals API to retrieve “age-related signals” for users and perform a number of other functions. According to the document, ...

Samsung announced its new mixed reality headset, the Galaxy XR. The Galaxy XR is priced at $1,800, about half the price of Apple's Vision Pro. Samsung and Google see the Galaxy XR as a stepping stone ...