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‘Ask YouTube’ brings AI-powered conversational search to video, adds Gemini Omni to Shorts techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/ask…

Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/dis…

Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/mac…

From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/fro…

Elon Musk said Sam Altman “stole” a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/elo…

#GoogleIO has ended, and after a flurry of AI updates, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis set some high expectations on AGI, and impacts beyond smart glasses you can talk to and pushing blue links out of searches. Does this hype still land after several years of AI-boosting events, or do you need to see it to believe it?

Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…

Google's back in the glasses game, with the reveal of Android XR smart glasses at #GoogleIO. This marks our best look yet at what their collaboration with Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster looks like, with a focus on vocal interactions with Gemini as a companion to your phone, which you can watch in this demo 🕶️

What does Google's vision for an agentic-driven experience actually look like? Check out this demo as an example live from #GoogleIO, where Google Spark was unveiled, with CEO Sundar Pichai declaring "we are firmly in our agent AI era,” on stage: spr.ly/6015BB7H6l

With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/wit…

How to use Google’s new information agents techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/how…

Google Search as you know it is over techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…

Google’s AI now lets you talk to your Gmail inbox techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…

Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…

Google just declared itself a contender in AI design techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/ai-…

Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…

Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/age…

Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow you across the entire internet techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…

Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…

Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…