The world’s most advanced AI is no longer waiting for instructions.

That was an unspoken message running through Google I/O 2025, held in Mountain View near San Francisco, California, this week. In the previous week, Google had announced a string of new features for its Android mobile platform. On Tuesday, the spotlight of the event shifted firmly to the AI platform Gemini as a system preparing to operate on its own terms...

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