Google's annual developer conference is still called Google I/O, although this year Google A/I would be just as appropriate.

Almost every developer-oriented announcement coming out of the event, which began on Tuesday, includes a reference to AI, a catch-all term to describe everything from text summarization to image recognition and language translation.

If the whining about blockchain got on your nerves when it peaked around 2018, the incessant rumination about robo-thoughts is probably a serious threat to your sanity. Hang in there, it's just software and the hype will die down eventually.

Google, facing rivalry from OpenAI and others, continues to improve its marquee AI models, with Gemini 1.5 Pro entering public preview in over 200 countries alongside a new speed-tuned variant called Gemini 1.5 Flash. Both models have one million token context windows – meaning they can accept large amounts of data as input – and both are offered through Google AI Studio with a two million token context window to developers participating in a private preview.