Our Field Trip to Google I/O + a sit-down with Sundar Pichai + a system update

This week we headed to Mountain View, California for the annual Google I/O developer event. We’re sharing our reactions to Google’s biggest announcements, including a redesigned search box, new agent tools to compete with OpenClaw, and an updated Gemini flash model that the company says is faster than the competition. We then ask Sundar Pichai, the company’s CEO, how he reacts to the growing evidence that the public is sour on AI, what advice he would give to college graduates scared of the current job market, and how the company stacks up against the competition in the AI ​​race. Finally, we’ll run through the week’s other big tech headlines in our System Updates segment.

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“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney Jones. This episode was edited by Vjeran Pavic. Engineering by Katie McMurran and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Alyssa Moxley, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.

Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, and Dahlia Haddad.