What are we talking about?
We're just... it's scenic. Scenic setting.
No, I'm asking. I was told to shut up because I ruined too much of the show earlier. So I'm like, what? What am I allowed to talk about?
Can you sack up and just give me some scenic B-roll?
I have to do everything around here. I swear to God.
Okay.
Well, Kevin, the keynote just wrapped up here at I/O 2026. What did you think?
Yes, this is like the Coachella of capitalism, the Warped Tour of the web, the Lollapalooza of links. I can keep going.
And they are doing a lot. We heard about everything from agentic search to these new video editing models and products that they have, all the way to Demis Hassabis at the end of the keynote declaring that we are in the foothills of the singularity.
When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity.
Yeah. And that puts us on pace by I/O 2027 to be at the base camp of the singularity. I love that Google's version of the Steve Jobs 'one more thing' is like, 'one more thing: the singularity.'
A great way to end. So yeah, what was your standout? What did they announce that caught your eye? I mean, they have said that they just made the biggest change to search in 25 years. I think time will tell if that is truly as significant a change as they're suggesting, because when we saw it in the demos, it just looked like the box grows if you type more into it. But, you know, they're also saying that by this summer they're going to be generating custom user interfaces based on your query and a bunch of other stuff. I think a through line through everything that they discussed here was 'coming this summer' or 'coming to a group of trusted testers.' And with these kind of productivity tools, until they're in your hands, you don't really know if anything has changed in your life or not.
Yeah, there was a lot of focus on agentic stuff like agentic coding. They have this new agentic search mode which basically is sort of the fancy upgrade to Google Alerts. You can have it sort of tell you when there's a new home listed on Zillow or a new baseball score you might care about or something like that. I was really interested that they seem to be betting very big on cost and speed. So their new model that they talked about today was Gemini 3.5 Flash, which is the newest version, but it's also, they say, four times faster and much cheaper than the other leading frontier models. And so I think Google's strategy of kind of betting on scale and distribution and making their models as efficient to serve as possible is really the direction they're going in. Like, they don't seem to care about having the absolute most cutting-edge models as long as they can serve them cheaply and quickly to billions of people.
I mean, I think they care about it. I think that they just haven't built it yet. You know, fast and cheap is what you talk about when it isn't the best. And so that's what we're getting this year. But, you know, I am interested in trying these new agents. I'll say I tried to use the new agent. I said, 'let me know if Kevin Roose writes a good story,' but it hasn't sent me anything. And so I don't know if it's broken or if the AI isn't working or what.
Yeah, I'm writing good stories constantly, so something must be going on.
I mean, my real curiosity is like which of these agents are going to find true product-market fit? Like which is the agent that is going to get a billion users? Because we saw them show off what is effectively their version of OpenClaw, which definitely had a big moment earlier this year, but it's still not clear to me that that is an actual mainstream use case. Like I have to say, of everything they showed off, I'm not dying to have, you know, Gemini OpenClaw working overnight on my behalf because I don't know what I would ask it to do.
Yeah, I think that was actually one of my favorite parts because I am currently running a Claude swarm on my open laptop.
Doing what? What is it doing?
And what they have said is that you can now do that through Gemini Spark, this new agent thing, and it will run in like a virtual machine on the cloud. So you don't have to keep your laptop cracked like an insane person.
Kevin, please. What are you doing with your...
