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Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced.

Google Play has a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to developer-facing tools.

Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps.

Google’s gunning for OpenAI’s Sora with Veo, an AI model that can create 1080p video clips around a minute long given a text prompt.  Unveiled on Tuesday at Google’s I/O 2024 developer…

In addition to the body of the emails themselves, the feature will also be able to analyze attachments, like PDFs.

The summaries are created based on Gemini’s analysis of insights from Google Maps’ community of more than 300 million contributors.

Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried the service.

The system effectively listens for “conversation patterns commonly associated with scams” in-real time. 

The standard Gemma models were only available in 2 billion and 7 billion parameter versions, making this quite a step up.

This is a great example of a company using generative AI to open its software to more users.

Firebase Genkit is an open source framework that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications.

This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features.

Google’s Circle to Search feature will now be able to solve more complex problems across psychics and math word problems. 

People can now search using a video they upload combined with a text query to get an AI overview of the answers they need.

A search results page based on generative AI as its ranking mechanism will have wide-reaching consequences for online publishers.

Google has built a custom Gemini model for search to combine real-time information, Google’s ranking, long context and multimodal features.

At its Google I/O developer conference, Google on Tuesday announced the next generation of its Tensor Processing Units (TPU) AI chips.

Google is upgrading Gemini, its AI-powered chatbot, with features aimed at making the experience more ambient and contextually useful.

Veo can generate few-seconds-long 1080p video clips given a text prompt.

At Google I/O, Google announced upgrades to Gemini 1.5 Pro, including a bigger context window. .

The AI upgrade will make finding the right content more intuitive and less of a manual search process.

Apple released new data about anti-fraud measures related to its operation of the iOS App Store on Tuesday morning, trumpeting a claim that it stopped over $7 billion in “potentially…

Online travel agency Expedia is testing an AI assistant that bolsters features like search, itinerary building, trip planning, and real-time travel updates.

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The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.

Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter…

The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s decision to take down a documentary revealing the identities of child abuse victims in Pakistan.

Adam Selipsky is stepping down from his role as CEO of Amazon Web Services, Amazon has confirmed to TechCrunch.  In a memo shared internally by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and…