Everything we saw at Google I/O: Gemini 3.5, Android XR glasses, Spark, and more

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["Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference, kicked off today after several weeks of hype. The opening day of I/O solidified Google's main message lately: Gemini is about to be in everything, and making agentic AI more accessible is the focus for the foreseeable future. Amidst mounting pressure from competitor labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have been aggressively rolling out new models and impressive coding features within just weeks of each other, Google's task is to keep up -- and convince users that the AI push is worth it.

Not all of today's announcements left that impression. The annual developer conference takes place May 19 and 20 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. The opening keynote, at which Google leaders kicked off the conference by announcing new software and hardware developments, started at 10 a.m.

PT / 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday.", "Google's been integrating AI shopping tools for a few years now, but Universal Cart may be the company's most ambitious one yet. As the name implies, it's a shopping agent that follows you throughout Google Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail, and stores, researches, and adds products to a virtual cart when prompted.

Google says the agent will even keep track of price history, deals, and stock, and make suggestions based on products currently in your cart. If all of these claims are as real and reliable as the company says, then the Universal Cart may be a smash-hit AI tool.", 'The Gemini app got a "complete redesign," said Woodward, in a language called Neural Expressive. Alongside new typography and colors, the app now features Gemini Live, letting you switch from typing to talking, and supports more languages and regional dialects.

You can also pause the mic to talk through a longer request without interruption. Plus, no more wall of text: as of today, Gemini will piece out responses to your queries, complete with graphics and imagery, similar to how the Generative UI feature appears.', 'Google dropped its latest model family, Gemini 3.5, which the company framed – unsurprisingly – as central to building better agents. The first model available today is Gemini 3.5 Flash, which Google says outperformed Gemini 3.1 Pro on several coding and agentic benchmarks.

Like all Flash models, it optimizes the strengths of the overall model family for speed and a cheaper, more lightweight user experience, without sacrificing the ability to handle "long-horizon" agentic tasks, Google noted. You can access 3.5 Flash in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. It\'s also ready to use in Antigravity and the Gemini API, as well as the new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform , which launched at Google Cloud Next last month.', 'Demis Hassabis joined the stage to talk about Omni, a new world model that Hassabis likened to progress on artificial general intelligence (AGI).