Google used Google I/O this week to announce intelligent eyewear partnerships with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Gemini and built on Android XR with Samsung and Qualcomm. The announcement was notable not just for what the glasses can do, but for how deliberately Google thought about what they need to look like. That…

Google I/O 2026 turned a model launch into a platform statement. It was the clearest evidence yet that Google wants Gemini to become the operating layer for work across consumer products, developer tools, enterprise systems, and cloud-managed agents. Gemini 3.5 Flash is the center of that story. Google positioned Flash as the common engine behind…

Google’s Android Show was more important than a pre-I/O feature preview. It was the clearest evidence yet that Google’s decision to give Android its own stage is the right one. Google started carving Android out this way last year, and this year’s show made the case for continuing that separation much stronger. The continued separation…

Google announced Googlebook today, and the most useful sentence in the entire post is one Alex Kuscher slips in early: “moving from an operating system to an intelligence system.” That line tells you how to read everything that follows. What Google didn’t sell For months the industry conversation was about Aluminium, the Android-based unified desktop…

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The dominant fear going into the AI era was that machines would hollow out work, taking over not just repetitive tasks but the thinking behind them. Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index, which draws on trillions of anonymized Microsoft 365 productivity signals and a survey of 20,000 workers across 10 countries, tells a more complicated story.…