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Ahead of IO, Google announced a number of key changes to Android Auto and the Built-in in-car entertainment system that powers many modern vehicles. Here’s what it is like to use. more…
Today, I’m talking with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a conversation we recorded just after the Google I/O developer conference. This is the fifth year Sundar and I have sat down after I/O, and it’s become one of my favorite Decoder traditions. There’s always a lot of news at I/O, and th
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge I came into Google I/O 2026 expecting the normal AI announcement cycle. A faster model. A better demo. A few benchmark charts. Someone saying “agentic” at least 40 times. And yes, we got a lot of that. But one thing genuinely stuck with me: G
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge I want to talk about something that happened at Google I/O 2026 that I think most people are either misreading or not reading at all and that's the Search updates. Before getting into what the Search updates actually are, I think the context
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge A reflection on Google I/O 2026's most ambitious demo, through the lens of someone who has spent the last few years building systems where orchestration has already started mattering more than typing speed. Watching Doom run on an operating s
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge The developer track at Google I/O 2026 made one thing undeniably clear: the era of the simple AI chat assistant is over. We have officially entered the Agentic Era. For independent developers, solo founders, and micro-SaaS builders who rely o
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge The moment that changed how I thought about I/O 2026: Not the Gemini 3.5 keynote. Not the XR glasses. It was the demo where Jules — an autonomous coding agent — opened a pull request on a GitHub repo, with passing CI, while the presenter was
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge Google I/O 2026 dropped a wall of announcements in two hours. 🔥 Gemini 3.5 Flash The keynote sugar rush was real. Every recap I've read picks one announcement and explains it. That's useful. But it doesn't answer the question I actually had
93 Agents. One OS. Twelve Hours. Under $1,000. I need to tell you something before we get into the announcements. For months, I've been building an app — a kind of AI operating system where specialized agents each own a domain. A coding agent. A design agent. A research agent. Each one has real prog
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge I’m a cybersecurity and full‑stack student who lives inside React, Firebase, Android Studio, and random security tools. When I watched Google I/O 2026, I expected “just” new models and APIs. Instead, I walked away feeling like the definition
