Google wants Search to work while you sleep, and its new information agents are the plan (opens in new tab)

Google has spent more than two decades refining a product built on a simple premise: you type a question, it returns a list of links. At I/O 2026 on Monday, the company signalled that premise is no longer enough. Among the biggest announcements was a new category of AI-powered tools called information agents, persistent, background […] This story continues at The Next Web

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