Daring Fireball

Andrew Liszewski and Stevie Bonifield, writing for The Verge (gift link):
Google’s I/O 2026 keynote today was once again full of AI-relatedannouncements including a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, newfeatures for Search and Gmail, and updates about its Project Aurasmart glasses....

Katherine Blunt and Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal from Google I/O (gift link):
Google is supercharging its Gemini artificial-intelligence modelto become more competitive in the era of agentic AI.
The company has started rolling out what it calls Gemini Spark, apersonal agent it says is capable of navigating a user’s digitallife and acting on his or her behalf. The agent will work acrossmany of Google’s products and run on the company’s cloudinfrastructure...

Tripp Mickle, Kate Conger, and Brian X. Chen, opening The New York Times’s report on yesterday’s Google I/O keynote (gift link):
For 25 years, Google’s iconic search box was a long, slender barwhere people typed in keywords like “World Cup.”
But over the past three years, artificial intelligence allowedpeople to type in longer, more complex questions like “Who are thetop 24 teams in the World Cup and what chance does the UnitedStates have of advancing?”...

22-year-old pop singer-songwriter Brye, on TikTok:
“Lemons”, my biggest song ever, that went like super viral duringquarantine back in 2020, was actually produced, if you can believeit, in GarageBand on my school iPad.
My high school gave us all iPads and I produced “Lemons” on there. Iused to just like make beats on GarageBand in high school. I wrotemusicals for my school with GarageBand on my iPad. And then I madethat little demo for “Lemons”, recorded it ... on...