AI Advancements: From Research to Reality

In what's become a bit of a Decoder tradition, I spoke with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in person after I/O. The conference this year was all about AI, particularly a slew of actual AI products, not just models and capabilities.

To Sundar, this marks the beginning of a new era for search and the web overall. So I had to ask: what happens to the web when AI tools and eventually agents do most of the browsing for us? It was a very Decoder conversation. Read the full transcript here.

Links: 

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• The 15 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2025 | Verge
• We tried on Google’s prototype AI smart glasses | Verge
• AI Mode is obviously the future of Google Search | Verge
• News publishers call Google’s AI Mode ‘theft’ | Verge
• Details leak about Jony Ive’s OpenAI device | Verge
• DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open monopoly | Verge
• Google Zero is here — now what? | Verge
• Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is okay reinventing the bus | Decoder

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Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Ursa Wright. 

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