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Google Play is getting audio previews and other improvements
Remember when Google made a number of Android-related announcements at a pre-show before the start of its annual developer conference, Google I/O? You might recall that Google did hold back a bit on any news about the Play Store.Today, Google finally shared that it is rolling out a series of upgrades to its Play Store to help Android app developers better market their software and services to consumers. Check out Sarah Perez’s story here.
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Sundar Pichai shares some Google Lens stats
Here is an eye-popping stat:
“Lens grew 65% year over year, with more than 100 billion visual searches already this year,” Pichai said while onstage at Google I/O 2025.
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Android Studio is getting an ‘agentic AI’
Android Studio is where Android app developers hang — so to speak. And now that integrated development environment is getting a new “agentic AI” capability called Journeys and will soon introduce an Agent Mode for more complex development tasks. Read more from Sarah Perez here.
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We have another Project Astra demo
Image Credits:Google In a new demo, Google showed how an updated version of Project Astra in the Gemini app could help a user fix their mountain bike. Gemini was able to parse through a user manual, search the web, and call a bike shop all at the same time through low latency voice interactions.
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Google debuts a coding AI agent called Jules
Google has developed a coding AI “agent,” Jules, that’s now in public preview. Users can sign up to try it at jules.google.com.
Jules allows developers to submit a task, and Jules takes care of the rest, according to Google — fixing bugs and making updates. It integrates with GitHub and works more or less autonomously, planning steps and modifying files as needed.
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Google is turning Gemini into a universal AI assistant
“This is our ultimate vision for the Gemini app, to transform it into a universal AI assistant, an AI that’s personal, proactive and powerful, and one of our key milestones on the road to AGI,” CEO of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, said while onstage.
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Gemini Diffusion is an ultra-fast new AI model
Google previewed a new AI model, Gemini Diffusion, that it claims is “state-of-the-art” on certain coding and math tasks — leveraging parallel generation to achieve low latency. The version being released today generates answers five times faster than Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite model while matching its programming performance, the company claims.
Google says that Gemini Diffusion is currently testing with a small group.
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Google is releasing a ‘thinking budget’ for Gemini
Google is experimenting with a new way for users to control how much its AI reasoning models “think.” Gemini 2.5 will come with a slider for users to determine whether an AI model spends anywhere from a few seconds thinking or up to a minute. We’ve heard that OpenAI’s GPT-5 will have adjustable reasoning capabilities as well.
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We’re 30 minutes in and I sense a theme
AI. That’s it. That’s the theme. Is Google trying to tell us something?
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Google upgrades text-to-speech with native audio output
Onstage, Google announced new text-to-speech previews that allow developers to take advantage of “native audio output” for improved customization. Google says that native audio output, driven by its latest Gemini models, enables more expressive, natural speech — voices that capture subtle nuances and that can seamlessly switch to a whisper.
Native audio output works in over 24 languages and can change languages on the fly, according to Google. It’s available in the Gemini API starting today.
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Agent Mode demo
Sundar Pichai showed a demo of Agent Mode onstage. This new feature will complete long, complex tasks on behalf of users. Pichai showed how Agent Mode could help a user find an apartment at a certain budget.
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More Gemini-powered personalization coming to Gmail
Image Credits:Google Before Sundar Pichai left the stage, he teased a Gemini-powered Gmail feature that can match typical greetings from past emails, capturing tone, style, and favorite word choice, and then automatically generating a reply.
“I love how it included details, like keeping driving time under five hours per day, and it uses my favorite adjective — ‘exciting,’” he said.
This will be available in Gmail this summer for subscribers.
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Google I/O 2025 live coverage: Google AI Ultra, Project Mariner, Gemini app updates, and more
Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is here.
I/O will showcase product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. We’re looking forward to plenty of news relating to Android, Chrome, Google Search, YouTube, and — of course — Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini.
Stick with us all day as we bring you the latest news from this year’s conference.
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