Google announces slew of AI advances, including a personal AI assistant coming soon

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AI agents seen as key to monetizing AI, ​per CEO Sundar Pichai and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian

Google unveiled its biggest search engine overhaul in years with AI-powered features like search agents that can scan the web.

The company made the announcements at its annual Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, gaining an audience for new product debuts at a time when the market has been focused on the soaring valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic, which are both gearing up for IPOs as soon as this year.