Google’s biggest event of the year, I/O 2025, kicks off today, May 20, at 1 PM ET—and we’re ready to bring you all the updates as they happen.

This story is part of our complete Google I/O coverage Updated less than 2 hours ago Google IO 2025 officially kicks off today, and begins with an opening keynote at 10am PT / 1pm ET. For those of you eager to tune in,

The news in question comes from Android Authority in partnership with Assemble Debug, who report that Google is adding a new bar to the Gemini overlay's prompt box at the bottom of the screen that, when users swipe up on it, will switch Google Gemini from its overlay setting to a full-screen mode.

Google's voice assistant is getting phased out in favor of the more chatty Gemini: Here's how that could affect your smart home and Nest products.

The car version of Gemini will first be available on Android Auto in the coming months and later this year on Google built-in.

Welcome to TechRadar's Google I/O 2025 live blog! John-Anthony Disotto, Senior AI Writer, here to take you through the first few hours of today as we build up to one of Google's biggest events of the year.

Google has revealed new Gemini-powered accessibility updates for Android and Chrome ahead of Google I/O, in honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day.