Google's I/O 2024 announcements just reset the AI developer stack

<p>The week of July 11 to 18, 2026 delivered news at every layer of the AI stack. Moonshot AI shipped the largest open-weight model ever announced, Google targeted its

<p>There were many big AI announcements at Google Cloud NEXT '26—but what really impressed me was how simple it is now to turn your idea into an actual working application using

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/google-io-writing-2026-05-19">Google I/O Writing Challenge</a></em></p> <p>I had barely caught up from my

<p>Vertex AI has been Google Cloud's AI development platform since 2021. On April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google retired it — not with a deprecation notice,

<p>For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a

<p>On April 30th I got an email from Google about something called GEAR, their new program for building AI agents using ADK, the Agent Development Kit. I signed up, watched the

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Google DeepMind dropped Gemma 4 today:</p> <p><strong>Gemma 4 31B:</strong> dense, 256K context, redesigned architecture targeting efficiency and

<blockquote> <p>Coding is not dying. It already died. You just didn’t attend the funeral.</p> </blockquote> <h2> ⚡ What is Anti-Gravity? </h2> <p>An internal Google IDE that turns