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Google I/O 2026: Live Updates As The Company Announces New Features For Gemini, AI, Search And More

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The annual developer conference starts today.

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It's time again for Google to unveil a cornucopia of new features coming to its dizzying array of software products. The company's developer conference kicks off today, with a keynote slated to start at 1PM ET. You can watch the stream (here's how to watch the I/O 2026 keynote) or, if you aren't able to tune into a video, you can just rely on our liveblog right here! (You can also do both, you multitasker you.)

Google already hosted an I/O edition of its regular Android Show last week, at which it launched a whole new product category (Googlebooks) and showed off a whole bunch of Android, Gemini and Chrome updates. You can catch up on everything Google announced at the Android Show last weekbefore today's keynote so you can be more informed on what the company is likely to...

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