Google launches AI overhaul for Search and Gemini (opens in new tab)

Google used its annual I/O developer conference on May 19 to announce a broad AI push across Search, Gemini, developer tools and smart glasses, including what it called the biggest redesign of its search box in more than 25 years. The company said the search box will expand for longer natural-language queries and accept images, videos, files and Chrome tabs, and that it is upgrading AI Mode globally to Gemini 3.5 Flash. Google also introduced Gemini Spark, a cloud-based personal AI agent desi...