Wed. 05/21 – Everything Google Everywhere And All At Once
Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough
4.7 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It’s Google day. Everything Google, everywhere, all at once. All the headlines from IO and there were a ton. What even is Google search in the age of AI? Google’s big push into smartglasses, a wild new video model and a ton, ton more. Here’s what you missed, yesterday, mostly, I guess, in the world of tech.
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Links:
- Google is rolling out AI Mode to everyone in the US (Engadget)
- Android XR is getting stylish partners in Warby Parker and Gentle Monster (The Verge)
- My demo with Google's AR glasses went better than the one on stage (AndroidCentral)
- Google launches Veo 3, an AI video generator that incorporates audio (CNBC)
- Watch Me Try Google’s Live Language Translator. It’s Wild. (WSJ)
- Google moves to reassure EU cloud users amid concern over Trump threat (Financial Times)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Wednesday, May 21st, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough. Today. It's Google Day. Everything, Google, everywhere, all at once, all the headlines from I.O. And there were a ton. What even is Google search in the age of AI? Google's big push into smart glasses, a wild new video model, and a ton, ton more. |
| 0:23.3 | Here's what you missed yesterday, mostly, I guess, in the world of tech. |
| 0:33.3 | So this is why I decided to split up the developer conference days into multiple shows. |
| 0:38.8 | Google announced so many things at I.O. yesterday that this entire episode is probably just going to be covering all of that. |
| 0:46.6 | Beginning with Google rolling out AI mode to all Google search users in the U.S. |
| 0:51.4 | and announcing deep search, agentic capabilities, chart generation, and more |
| 0:56.7 | coming to labs users, quoting and gadget. For the uninitiated, AI mode is a chatbot built |
| 1:03.9 | directly into Google search. It lives in a separate tab and was designed by the company to tackle |
| 1:08.8 | more complicated queries than people have historically |
| 1:10.9 | used its search engine to answer. For instance, you can use AI mode to generate a comparison |
| 1:16.0 | between different fitness trackers before today. The chatbot was powered by Gemini 2.0. Now |
| 1:21.6 | it's running a custom version of Gemini 2.5. What's more? Google plans to bring many of |
| 1:26.9 | AI modes capabilities to other parts of the search |
| 1:29.2 | experience. Looking to the future, Google plans to bring deep search and offshoot of its deep |
| 1:34.9 | research mode to AI mode. Google was among the first companies to debut the tool in December. |
| 1:40.7 | Since then, most AI companies, including OpenAI, have gone on to offer their take on |
| 1:45.1 | deep research, which you can use to prompt Gemini and other chatbots to take extra time to |
| 1:49.6 | create a comprehensive report on a subject. With today's announcement, Google is making the tool |
| 1:54.4 | available in a place where more of its users are likely to encounter it. Another new feature that's |
| 1:59.3 | coming to AI mode builds on the work Google did with |
| 2:02.0 | Project Mariner, the web surfing AI agent, the company began previewing with trusted testers at the end of last year. |
| 2:09.0 | This edition gives AI mode the ability to complete tasks for you on the web. For example, you can |
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