Project Astra

Cao Liangliang, a former director at Google DeepMind, has been appointed chair professor of data science and AI at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, effective June 29, 2026. The move brings a leader w…

At Google I/O 2026, the company announced Gemini 3.5 Flash, a cheaper and faster AI model with multimodal reasoning and a 1M-token context window, alongside a new "AI Mode" for Search that allows auto…