Google I/O 2025

Google’s AI-generated opening video for I/O used a new video generation model, Veo 3, according to the description of the video. The video looked a little rough, if you ask me.

This year’s Google I/O kicks off in less than an hour, and AI is going to take center stage. Similar to last year’s event, Android will likely take a backseat as Google reveals a bunch of AI-related updates across its products and services.

Minus Allison, who is gonna be snapping some killer photos for us from a more optimal position.

We’re out here at I/O and we did our best Dieter impression by getting in line first. Or at least the press line to get into the amphitheater. We’ve got our seats locked down and the countdown to the keynote is on so stay tuned!

I don’t know how I feel about this, but I’ll tell you it’s no Mark Rebillet firing T-Shirt cannons and making AI music. Then again, I’m not sure how any keynote pre-show will ever top that.

As Google plugs AI into search, what happens to the web? Nilay Patel discussed that topic with Google CEO Sundar Pichai this week on the Decoder podcast. It quickly became a deeper discussion about the new AI Overviews results, but you can start with a small bite here.

In response to malware and social engineering attacks that work by snooping notifications or activating screen sharing, Google says Android 15 will hide notifications with one-time passwords (with some exceptions, like wearable companion apps).

The blink-and-you-missed-it AR glasses at Google I/O? “The glasses shown are a functional research prototype from our AR team at Google. We do not have any launch plans to share,” Google spokesperson Jane Park tells The Verge.

We cut down the nearly two-hour presentation just for you, ICYMI. You can also read about everything that was announced if you prefer words. Happy Wednesday!

Google is distributing these little handbooks for prompting AI, which is kind of adorable? It has color-coded highlights breaking down the basic components of a prompt. There’s an early internet “How to use a search engine” vibe about it — I’m gonna hang on to this one for posterity.

Sergey posted up outside the area where Google was giving demos of Project Astra multi-modal chats. He said he thinks Sundar is doing a good job making hard decisions as CEO, said he mostly uses AI for coding tasks, and politely declined to answer a question from Bloomberg’s Shirin Ghaffary about Larry Page accusing Elon Musk of being a “speciesist.”

At Google I/O 2024 today, Google announced a multimodal version of Gemini Nano, allowing the on-device processing-powered AI model to recognize images, sounds, and spoken language in addition to text.

Obviously, someone noticed our video that clipped every single AI mention at I/O 2023 last year. Sundar Pichai closed the 2024 keynote by showing how AI can save us some work by using it to keep track. At the time, it was up to 121 AI mentions.