Google I/O fuels dual excitement on AI and smart wearables
Saturday, May 17, 2025, 7:20 am
At the upcoming developer conference, Google is set to dazzle both with its pivot to AI innovations and its pointed challenge to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. The event is generating buzz as the tech giant teases fresh features and competitive jabs that keep industry watchers both amused and intrigued.
With Android 16 out of the way, Google I/O will certainly be all about AI.
And we'll likely find out a lot more at Google I/O next week.
Android is getting its biggest visual update in years, and rather than unveiling it for the first time at its big annual developer conference, Google announced Material Three Expressive at a pre-show event broadcast on YouTube the week before. If a major design language shift for the world's most…
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