Google’s Sameer Samat just made very clear how much Google sees Gemini as a way to make Android a better operating system. Gemini app? On iOS? Yeah yeah sure sure. But AI on Android, and particularly on Pixel, is where the real stuff is for Google. The AI race is very much a smartphone race, friends.

Toward the end (maybe?) of the I/O keynote, Google threw in a cute little ditty about all the things you can do with Gemini prompts: generate photos of cats playing guitar, find smart things to say about Renoir, etc.

It includes the phrase “There’s no wrong way to prompt,” which, have you met people?

With more AI features coming to Google Workspace and other Google products, customers might be wondering if this means the next Gemini version learned from their emails. Google says it will not use user files on its platform to teach Gemini or other AI models.

After Tesla CEO Elon Musk fired the entire 500 Supercharger team, a TikTok user noticed that all the cables at this Vallejo, Calif. station had been severed, rendering it useless. Vandalism? Or thieves looking to extract the valuable copper from inside the cables?

Google added a new feature to Workspace that lets users ask an AI agent questions about meetings, emails, and everything else that someone may need to know at work. The AI Teammate, renamed Chip during Google I/O, takes information from company data to answer questions.

Here’s a quick look at the new multimodal AI project Google just announced that’s called Astra and how it can help you find misplaced glasses.

Note: this video was edited for length and clarity, but the original video was one single take.

Onstage at Google I/O, the company is showing off its AI enhanced Google Search that can take a complex and long entry and generate an AI Overview. In an example, Google searched “Find the best yoga or pilates studios in Boston and show details on their intro offers and walking time from Beacon Hill,” and it provided all of that for the user.

We’re in our seats at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and about 45 minutes out from the start of Google I/O’s keynote. There’s a DJ on stage and some trippy visuals getting our morning started. Not spotted yet: dancing ducks, like we were treated to last year. Let’s keep it that way, huh?

Like Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon has alluded to how the great oncoming winter is the actually the biggest threat the people of Westeros will face.

But the prequel series’ latest season two trailer is firmly focused on the past at a time when all the matters is the war within the fractured Targaryen family.

The long-time Smash Bros. director-turned-YouTuber offers up some helpful video game storage tips in his latest video, which is perfect for those of us embracing the various worlds of physical media.

While Amazon has renewed Mr. & Mrs. Smith for a second season, the streamer has yet to announce whether co-stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine will return to reprise their roles as John and Jane.

Sauron (Charlie Vickers) was careful about keeping his true identity secret all throughout the first season of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. But the dark lord’s powers are on full display in the series’ new season two teaser, and it seems like he’ll be laying waste to Middle-earth when we see him next. Show’s back on August 29th.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is warning people not to buy rhinestone-studded steering wheel decals, after several people were reported injured by the shiny decorations. A crash triggering an airbag sent tiny rhinestones into one person’s face and neck, while another person lost sight in one eye. Glittering metallic decals featuring all the major car brands’ logos can be found on eBay, Etsy, and a number of other online sellers.

People sure seem to like Amazon’s adaptation of The Boys, and Amazon likes it when folks are watching its shows, which makes the news that the gritty superhero show has been renewed for a fifth season anything but a surprise.