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The Dawn of the Agentic Era: Google I/O 2026

We're entering the era of AI operators, not just AI assistants.

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  • HTML and Canvas API: A Chrome capability allowing developers to render native HTML elements directly within WebGL or WebGPU canvases.
  • Antigravity 2.0: An agent-first developer platform and CLI capable of complex multi-agent orchestration.
  • Ask Maps: Conversational AI feature for complex, multi-step queries in Google Maps.
  • Ask YouTube: A conversational tool for navigating to specific information within videos.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash: A high-speed AI model optimized for actions and multi-agent systems.
  • Gemini for Mac OS: Native application featuring file-aware voice dictation.
  • Gemini Omni: A multimodal model that creates and edits content across text, video, and audio inputs.
  • Gemini Spark: A 24/7 personal cloud-based AI agent that executes tasks in the background.
  • Docs Live: Real-time voice dictation and editing integration for Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Keep.
  • SynthID Expansion: AI content watermarking and verification integration into Google Search and Chrome.
  • Android Halo: A dedicated home base app on Android phones for managing your personal AI agents.
  • Intelligent Search Box: A multimodal search interface for text, images, files, and video queries.
  • Information Agents: Background agents in Google Search that continuously monitor the web for specific topics.
  • Generative UI in Search: Dynamic, interactive visual widgets generated in real-time for complex search queries.
  • Universal Cart: An intelligent shopping assistant that works across Google Search, YouTube, and Gmail.
  • Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) & Agent Payments Protocol (AP2): New backend protocols enabling agentic e-commerce.
  • Neural Expressive: A redesigned visual language and interface for the Gemini app.
  • Gemini Live Dialects: Regional accent support for voice interactions in Gemini Live.
  • Daily Brief: A personalized morning digest agent synthesizing emails, calendars, and tasks.
  • Google Pics: A Workspace tool for AI image creation, object editing, and flyer layout.
  • Google Flow Updates: Agentic tools capable of multiple simultaneous actions, custom Flow Tools, and Google Flow Music for song generation.
  • AI Audio Smart Glasses: Hands-free wearables providing audio navigation and app control, developed alongside Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker.
  • CodeMender API: A cybersecurity agent that automatically finds and fixes software vulnerabilities.
  • Gemini for Science: AI lab prototypes for reading research, generating hypotheses, and writing scientific code.
  • AlphaEarth Foundations: A digital twin simulation of Earth for modeling climate, deforestation, and food security.
  • Isomorphic Labs Updates: Molecular interaction models accelerating preclinical drug discovery.
  • TPU T and TPU I: Specialized tensor processing chips explicitly split for model training and inference workloads.

Res: https://io.google/2026/

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