Google I/O 2024 Live Blog: Latest News on Android, Gemini, and Search
Join us for up-to-the-minute coverage from WIRED’s reporters on the ground at Google I/O 2024.
Welcome to the WIRED live blog for the Google I/O 2024 keynote address. We have a few reporters at I/O in Mountain View, California: senior writers Lauren Goode and Paresh Dave, senior reviews editor Julian Chokkattu, and staff writer Reece Rogers. Along with senior writer Will Knight and editorial director Michael Calore (who will be watching from their desks, remotely), the team will provide live updates and commentary once we’re underway.
Google’s presentation will get started at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern, 6 pm UK time.
That's a Wrap on the Google I/O Keynote!
Thanks for following along with us. You can read all the biggest news in these WIRED stories, which we published this morning:
- Everything Google Announced at I/O 2024, by Boone Ashworth
- Gemini AI Features Coming to Android, by Julian Chokkattu
- The End of Google Search as We Know It, by Lauren Goode
- A demo of Google's Astra visual chatbot, by Will Knight
I also did a tally, Pichai. By my count, there were roughly over 40 services announced today at I/O. But only about eight of them are actually available starting today. The rest are coming this week, June, July, this summer (North American), coming weeks, coming months, soon, later this year, late this year, second half of this year, sometime in 2025, or in the future.
James Manyika, who is on stage now, has an interesting job. He's the Senior Vice President for Research, Technology & Society at Google; his team researches the impact these AI tools have on society to make sure they have a beneficial effect and that they do not cause harm. They also work on safeguards, developer tools, and industry standards.
Nervous about AI scam calls? I put together a few expert tips you can use right now.
Here's Google injecting its AI features into improving phone calls again.
Gemini Nano with Multimodality can understand when someone might be trying to scam you during a phone call and it'll give you a “Scam Detected” alert. That means Gemini is listening to the whole call, yes, but Google says since it's all on-device, it “remains private.”
For anyone wondering about Google's legalese on “Ask Photos,” Google Photos software engineer Jeremy Selier writes, “People will not review your conversations and personal data in Ask Photos, except in rare cases to address abuse or harm. We also don't train any generative AI product outside of Google Photos on this personal data, including other Gemini models and products.”
