Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Google has been hard at work improving Project Astra since it was first shown during Google I/O this year. The AI bot that understands the world around you is slated to be one of the major updates to ...

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We’re quickly entering the realm of AI that is useful, and key to this is Project Astra, Google’s new universal AI agent that is helpful in everyday tasks. Oppo, Honor, Motorola and Tecno have all ...

Project Astra began as an ambitious research project designed to bolster Google's AI efforts when it was first announced last year. Now, it's a product you can actually use as Gemini Live on millions ...

Last year at Google I/O, one of the most interesting demos was Project Astra, an early version of a multimodal AI that could recognize your surroundings in real-time and answer questions about them ...

The technology powering Gemini Live’s camera and screen sharing is called Project Astra. It’s available as an Android app for trusted testers, and Google today unveiled agentic capabilities for ...

Google DeepMind’s Project Astra -- an AI assistant prototype with eyes, ears and voice being built for smart glasses, phone or computer -- can see what the user does. Greg Wayne, director of research ...