It's been 13 years since Google announced its Google Glass headset and 10 years since it stopped selling the device to consumers. There have been other attempts to make smart glasses work, but none of them have stuck.

That’s all fine and dandy — in theory. In reality, of course, these genAI engines are far less capable, consistent, and reliable than they’re made out to be, and most of those more advanced functions (including anything involving any manner of info seeking, answer providing, or text processing) are generally more of a liability than an asset.

Google is enhancing its Home APIs with the power of Gemini. The AI will help with creating automations, searching camera history, and more.

Google is bringing Gemini intelligence to its Home APIs, allowing smart home developers and manufacturers to tap into Gemini’s AI-powered features and potentially making your smart home a lot, well, smarter. The company announced the news in a blog post during the Google I/O developers conference this week.

Google says the release version of 2.5 Flash is better at reasoning, coding, and multimodality, but it uses 20–30 percent fewer tokens than the preview version. This edition is now live in Vertex AI, AI Studio, and the Gemini app. It will be made the default model in early June.

Google has launched a new Gemini AI Ultra AI subscription that costs $250 per month: Here's what you get from the most expensive tier.

On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company announced Deep Think, an “enhanced” reasoning mode for its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro model. Deep Think allows the model to consider multiple answers to questions before responding, boosting its performance on certain benchmarks.

“Although the feature is experimental, the goal is to increase the speed that you can ship high-quality code, while significantly reducing the amount of time you spend manually testing, validating, or reproducing issues,” wrote Android Studio Product Manager Mayank Jain in a blog post. Other new features for Android Studio enabled by Gemini are:

Volvo and Google have announced expanded partnership with the introduction of Gemini in the Swedish firm’s vehicles. Google Gemini is an AI generated service and was first showcased in a Volvo EX90 at Google’s I/O conference earlier this year.

Google I/O highlights include 100 AI updates, with Gemini challenging ChatGPT and a 'total overhaul' of Search.