Top AI News - May 24, 2026

Google

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash and the Antigravity 2.0 platform, providing developers with comprehensive tools to build, deploy and manage AI agents at scale, including Managed Agents in the Gemini API and native Android support in AI Studio. The company is positioning itself to lead the shift from single-turn prompts to production-ready agentic workflows with a new developer ecosystem and $2 million hackathon prize pool.

Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind is deploying its AI Co-Scientist system to laboratory settings, advancing AI's role in assisting scientific research and experimentation. This represents a practical application of AI in accelerating scientific discovery workflows.

WIRED

Google I/O 2026 showcased the company's aggressive push to embed agentic AI across all major services, announcing Gemini 3.5 models, AI video generation (Omni), personal AI agents (Spark), universal AI-powered shopping, and Android XR smart glasses launching this fall. The announcements reflect Google's strategy to keep users within its ecosystem while demonstrating practical AI applications beyond chatbots.

Reddit

Google's Antigravity 2.0 allegedly uses 96 AI agents to autonomously build an operating system from scratch, showcasing advanced multi-agent collaboration capabilities.

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder, has reportedly joined Anthropic to advance Claude pretraining, though the source article is inaccessible and details cannot be confirmed.