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Google announced at its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday that it’s launching Pics, a new AI-powered design and image-generation app for Google Workspace. The tech giant says it designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners. With Pics, users can generate everything from social media graphics and invitations to marketing materials and mock-ups using simple text prompts, without needing any editing skills or advanced tools. By giving users an easy way to generate visuals, Google is looking to take on popular design apps like Canva, as well as products from AI-native competitors like…

Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, is keen to talk about the coding skills of his company’s newest model, Gemini 3.5 Flash. The model has been trained to perform complex agentic coding tasks: translate large code bases from one language to another; find and fix bugs lurking deep in knotty code; and even write entire operating systems from scratch.Hassabis does not, however, think this spells doom for software developers. “I have no idea why people are going around talking with certainty about that,” Hassabis tells WIRED ahead of the new model reveal at today’s Google’s I/O event.“Perhaps there is…

Microsoft Ad Chief Kya Sainsbury-Carter Departs; LinkedIn’s Matt Derella Takes Over Sainsbury-Carter is stepping down after three years in the top advertising post at MicrosoftRobin Marchant via Getty Images The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry’s top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what’s next. Get your ticket. Microsoft’s top advertising executive, Kya Sainsbury-Carter, is leaving the company after three years in the role, she said in a LinkedIn post Tuesday. Taking over the role is Matt Derella, who has led global ad sales at LinkedIn since late 2024. Derella…

At the Google I/O 2026 keynote, the tech giant revealed new agentic capabilities in Search, where users can create, customize, and manage multiple AI agents to stay updated on topics of interest. The announcement is part of Google’s larger push toward agentic AI systems that can take initiative and assist with ongoing tasks instead of answering one question at a time. Unlike traditional search tools that respond only when prompted, Google’s information agents are designed to operate continuously in the background, 24/7, helping users stay informed about their interests without needing to repeatedly search for the same information every day.…

Much weirder is voice editing in Google Docs, in a new feature called Docs Live. By describing with your voice what you want to write, an agent will dictate your words, generate text, pull in citations from the web, and aim to turn your stream-of-consciousness wishes into a coherent document.(Reminder: All this stuff may eventually have ads.)For Gemini power users, Google is creating a new subscription tier, the AI Ultra plan, for $100 a month. It is also dropping the price of its top Gemini AI Ultra from $250 a month to $200.Gemini OmniGoogle announced Gemini Omni, an AI video…

The jury’s speedy decision to reject Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk’s case was a weak one, in part because he waited so long to file it. Watching the closing arguments last week, OpenAI’s attorneys detailed point-by-point how the law was on their client’s side, while the plaintiffs team focused on Sam Altman’s apparent lack of credibility and expressed disbelief that anyone would disagree with Musk’s accusations. The final effect was that, after the verdict, some found it hard to believe Musk had lost — including the…

Ahead of Meta’s latest round of mass layoffs tomorrow, some employees are deserting offices, abandoning their work, and loading up on perks they might soon lose, several people at the company tell WIRED.Two employees describe a widespread rush to use up an annual $2,000 flexible benefit, which can cover a variety of expenses including health and wellness activities. A separate triennial credit of $200 toward the purchase of audio gear has led to a scramble to purchase Apple AirPods and other headphones. Another source says Meta offices have been largely empty this week, as people prioritize polishing their résumés and…

Google launched on Tuesday Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new AI model that the company says is its strongest yet for coding and autonomous AI agents. The model, which was introduced at the company’s annual I/O developer conference, can independently execute coding pipelines, manage research projects, and, in internal tests, build an operating system entirely from scratch. The release signals Google’s shift from pitching AI as a conversational tool to AI as an agentic tool. It’s not just answering questions, but planning, building, and iterating on real work with minimal human input.  “3.5 Flash offers an incredible combination of quality and…

Gemini Spark is Google’s take on a steroided-out assistant agent that knows everything about you, announced as part of the company’s updates to its Gemini chatbot app at this year’s I/O developer conference.Software companies have been talking up AI agents for some time now, but I wasn’t impressed until I tried Anthropic’s Claude Cowork in January. I sat back as the bot organized the scattered screenshots littering my desktop into labeled folders without a single click, and felt convinced that this might be a turning point for how people interact with their computers.Many other early adopters in San Francisco experienced…

When Rob Wheeler launched At The Moment last May, the former GroupM chief marketing officer pitched the bootstrapped video venture as something between journalism and corporate storytelling.The B2B outlet, whose name also reflects its coverage of the advertising, technology, and media worlds, planned to cover each of the industries without quite belonging to any of them.A year in, the bet is paying off. ATM brought in more than $1 million in revenue between May 2025 and May 2026, entirely from sponsorships, and is already profitable, according to Wheeler. The company is reinvesting earnings into editorial tools, a global bench of…

We’ve all pulled up Street View on Google Maps to show a friend what our childhood home looked like, or dropped that little person icon onto the streets of Paris to see if we booked a hotel in a cool neighborhood. Imagine being able to do that, but in a more immersive, interactive way that allows you to really simulate the street and its environs, and even do things like adjust the weather or see what it would look like in a “Day After Tomorrow” scenario. That’s one of the goals of Google’s latest integration. Starting today, Google DeepMind is…

Agentic TV buying is here. So now’s a good time to figure out what that actually means.Agentic buying was one of the buzziest buzzwords of upfront week, with several companies announcing that agentic capabilities are live or on the way. For instance, Fox’s new AdStudio is rolling out agentic media planning and buying in the coming months. Meanwhile, Netflix is implementing a new suite of AI tools, with AI agents eventually managing and optimizing purchases on the platform autonomously.However, “agentic” is a relatively new term in the ad industry and is still shrouded in jargon, possibly meaning everything from agents…

If you were looking for a sign to try out a “dumb phone,” here it is: the trendy, minimalist Light Phone is joining forces with Noble Mobile, a phone network founded by entrepreneur and politician Andrew Yang that gives you money back if you use less data. On Tuesday, 500 Light Phone III models will be in stock and ready to ship through Noble Mobile. The catch is that you have to sign up for a two-year Noble Mobile phone plan at $50 per month, which comes out to $1,200 for the contract. As those who have been curious about…

For those concerned about the influence of Big Tech and billionaires on California’s future, Tom Steyer looks like an obvious choice. A billionaire who amassed his fortune after founding Farallon Capital Management, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, Steyer quit the firm in 2012 and turned to philanthropy, political advocacy, and climate activism, among other pursuits. Now, he’s jostling for position among a handful of Democratic and GOP candidates looking to advance from a June primary and then win the California governorship this November.Ahead of the midterms, I’m talking to candidates relevant to WIRED’s interests: A few weeks ago…

This post was created in partnership with DentsuA marketer’s playbook has many strategies for reaching an audience, but as consumers spend more time online—and with agentic platforms—live events and cultural moments should be a higher priority than ever before.Dentsu, which released its third Consumer Vision report titled “Mothers of Reinvention,” defines these moments of human collectivity as “cultural time zones.”During a Marketing Vanguard Summit session co-hosted by Dentsu, Beth Ann Kaminkow, CEO of Americas and chief global client officer at Dentsu, sat down with Maggie Schmerin, chief advertising officer at United Airlines, to discuss the importance of “cultural time zones”…

Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic. “I’ve joined Anthropic,” Karpathy posted on X Tuesday. “I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.” Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan…