In the race to build compelling personal AI agents, Google may have an underrated advantage: It already has all your emails. At its Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark that was built from Gemini base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity. Alphabet … Read more
“They are training for war in there.” Loading audio narration… That was the text I sent to my friend when I walked out of Barry’s fitness studio in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, DC, for the first time. And several weeks later, I still stand by that. As someone who trains about 5 to … Read more
WASHINGTON — Shouting over the banging and clanging sounds from heavy construction equipment, President Trump on Tuesday gave a group of reporters a closer look at the construction for the White House ballroom he’s building on the site of the former East Wing to mount a defense for the project that has hit a speed bump in … Read more
At Google IO 2026, the company unveiled a new version of its agentic coding app, Google Antigravity 2.0, with an updated desktop app, a CLI tool, and an SDK for custom workflows. The company launched its Antigravity tool last year as a response to agentic coding software such as Cursor. The company said that with … Read more
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and an activist icon who twice ran for president. Born on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson experienced Jim Crow segregation on public buses and at school firsthand. It would shape the rest of his life. His fight for … Read more
At the Google I/O developer conference, Google announced it’s bringing a voice-based prompting feature to Workspace apps such as Docs, Keep, and Gmail. These features can help you create drafts, take notes, and search for emails. In Docs, you can create a draft document using your voice. For instance, in a demo, Google showed that … Read more
A brush fire ignited in the Jurupa Valley on Tuesday, prompting evacuation orders and injuring four people as fire crews continued to battle a slew of blazes burning amid dry and warm conditions in the Southland. The Bain fire was reported at 11:22 a.m. near the Santa Ana River bottom in the community of Mira … Read more
Google’s name comes from the mathematical term googol, a very, very large number. On Tuesday, at the company’s I/O conference, Google’s numerical destiny seemed to come true. Loading audio narration… CEO Sundar Pichai shared the latest numbers from some of Google’s most important products, especially newer AI offerings. First up: tokens, the core unit of … Read more
With AI image generators widely available online and more sophisticated than ever, it’s never been harder to tell if an image is authentic. But on Tuesday, OpenAI announced two new measures to help fight the problem. The company has committed to an open standard called C2PA, which adds a clear signal in metadata that an … Read more
Rod Stewart is mourning the loss of another brother in the span of two months. The British pop rocker shared Wednesday on Instagram that his brother Bob died Tuesday, just a few months after his brother Don died. “It’s with great sadness that I announce the loss of my brother Bob last night, who joins … Read more
Google usually saves its biggest product launches for its I/O conference every year. This time, CEO Sundar Pichai held back, and it says a lot about where the company stands in the AI coding race. Loading audio narration… During the keynote address, Pichai told the crowd that Google’s new flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model … Read more
Google is getting (back) into the smart glasses game. At Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced a new partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to produce a new line of AI-powered glasses. The company says that the devices will be built to pair with Android and iOS devices and were designed in collaboration … Read more
Colombian folk music icon Totó La Momposina, known as the “Queen of Cumbia,” has died. She was 85. The Colombian Ministry of Culture announced the lauded vocalist’s death Tuesday morning. “Today we bid farewell to the eternal Totó. (1940-2026) To the eternal teacher who traveled the entire world to the rhythm of cumbias, porros, mapalés, … Read more
Google’s massive spending on AI is paying off, and that was clear at I/O 2026. Loading audio narration… On Tuesday, the tech giant announced cutting-edge products, like the AI agent Spark, that bring it ever closer to its goal of delivering a super-intelligent assistant to its billions of users. It also showcased soaring traction of … Read more
Shay Shwartz knows a lot about email phishing attacks. As a teenager, he made money as a hacker, but after getting caught at age 16, he realized he could use his cyber talents to prevent attacks rather than launch them. He went on to spend about a decade in top-tier cybersecurity roles, leading major projects … Read more