Just don’t confuse Deep Think with DeepMind or Astra with Aura.

Google unveiled dozens of new AI updates at I/O. Some of them seem to overlap significantly.

Sorry to tell you this, but Google’s new AI shopping tool appears eager to give J. D. Vance breasts. Allow us to explain. This week, at its annual software conference, Google released an AI tool called Try It On,

The U.S. Justice Department is probing whether Alphabet's Google violated antitrust law in its agreement with Character.AI that allows the tech giant to use the AI startup's technology, Bloomberg Law reported on Thursday.

The Justice Department is investigating whether Google crafted its agreement to skirt regulatory scrutiny, Bloomberg reports. The deal brought Character.AI’s co-founders back to Google and didn’t technically involve an exchange of shares,

Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, Anthropic's latest generation of frontier AI models, were announced Thursday.

Project Astra debuted at I/O 2024 as a next-generation AI assistant that can view the world around you, and provide advice and tips throughout the day. Since then, Astra has been incorporated into the camera and screen-sharing capabilities of the Gemini app and Google says it upgraded Astra's voice output to be more natural with native audio,

Google I/O 2025 was largely dominated by AI agents that will parse the web for users, representing a new paradigm that could replace Search.

Google’s AI models are learning to reason, wield agency, and build virtual models of the real world. The company’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, says all this—and more—will be needed for true AGI.

For all of that, you'll pay a pretty penny. Google AI Ultra costs $250 a month (although the company is offering half off the first three months). Not ready to drop $3,000 a year on AI? Google is rebranding its existing AI Premium plan as Google AI Pro, which also offers new features. It stays at a modest $20 per year.

New AI features are coming to Search, Workspace, Gemini, and more. Here's my pick of the best AI news at Google I/O 2025.