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MAY 27, 2026 / Google Pay
Google Pay is evolving for "agentic commerce" by introducing the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new MCP server that allows AI agents to manage integrations and analyze trends. New Android updates introduce dynamic callbacks for seamless express checkouts and extend payment support into social media apps via WebViews. Additionally, the platform is launching cross-device biometric authentication and new transaction signals to help merchants reduce friction and optimize processing costs.
MAY 26, 2026 / Google Pay
We are excited to bring Express checkout with Google Pay for Android native apps enabling developers...
MAY 19, 2026 / Cloud
Google announced the transition from assistive AI to independent agents, highlighting the launch of the Gemini 3.5 series and major updates to its Antigravity agent-first development platform. For mobile developers, the post introduces new Android CLI tools, the Android Bench evaluation leaderboard, and an automated Migration agent designed to rapidly convert various frameworks into native Kotlin code. Web development is also being transformed through Chrome DevTools for agents, the HTML-in-Canvas API, and the proposal of WebMCP, an open web standard that enables browser-based AI agents to execute complex tasks.
APRIL 29, 2026 / Cloud
Google Cloud has introduced a high-performance integration that connects Rapid Storage directly to PyTorch via the fsspec interface to eliminate AI training bottlenecks. By utilizing Google’s Colossus architecture and bidirectional gRPC streaming, the solution offers up to 15 TiB/s aggregate throughput and significant reductions in latency. These improvements allow developers to speed up total training time by 23% with zero code changes required beyond updating the storage bucket type.
MARCH 3, 2026 / Gemini
Google I/O 2026 is returning May 19-20 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. But before the keynotes begin, you can get into the spirit of the event with our annual tradition: the save the date puzzle. This year's experience highlights how AI can empower and accelerate
FEB. 19, 2026 / Gemini
The Android XR team is using Gemini's Canvas feature to make creating immersive extended reality (XR) experiences more accessible. This allows developers to rapidly prototype interactive 3D environments and models on a Samsung Galaxy XR headset using simple creative prompts.
FEB. 17, 2026 / Gemini
Google I/O returns May 19-20. Watch the livestreams for updates on Android, AI, Chrome, and Cloud. Registration is open on the Google I/O website.
SEPT. 4, 2025 / Gemma
Introducing EmbeddingGemma: a new embedding model designed for efficient on-device AI applications from Google. This open model is the highest-ranking text-only multilingual embedding model under 500M parameters on the MTEB benchmark, enabling powerful features like RAG and semantic search directly on mobile devices without an internet connection.
AUG. 27, 2025 / Gemini
Google and Zed have partnered to integrate Gemini CLI directly into the Zed code editor, bringing AI capabilities directly into the editor for developers and allowing for faster and more focused coding, enabling tasks like in-place code generation, instant answers, and natural chat within the terminal with a seamless review workflow for AI-generated changes.
AUG. 26, 2025 / Gemini
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is a new state-of-the-art image generation and editing model that allows for blending multiple images, maintaining character consistency, and targeted transformations using natural language, leveraging Gemini's world knowledge, now available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI.
