We react to Google I/O 2026

What better way to unwind from a two-hour-long keynote presentation than to pour over the weirdest and wildest details, from a Gmail bot you can converse with to DeepMind's leader saying the singularity is near . The Vergecast went live right after the show, with Senior AI Reporter Hayden Field joining me to discuss the highlights. First up, we talk about the buzzword of the show: agents, which seem to be Google's new answer to making AI useful.