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Antigravity's debut drone could do a lot, combining 360-degree cameras (from parent company Insta360) with POV goggles and a one-handed point-and-fly controller. The A1 was a lot of fun to fly and offered a new way to capture drone video, letting users reframe footage after the fact by cropping into the 360 video to focus on the most interesting action. The company's latest announcement isn't the A2, but a new accessory package it calls the Follow Me bundle. It includes propeller guards, a watch remote and a ring remote, and it's built to offer new hands-free shooting and tracking options. The watch and ring pair adds several new functions to the drone.

Google's latest AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, is now available for more people. It first rolled out to members of Google's Fairwind Program, made up of governments and trusted partners that need access to the company's models with the most advanced cybersecurity capabilities, earlier this month. Now, developers can access it via the Gemini API and Google's agentic software developer platform Antigravity, while Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers will be able to use it through the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. Access to Argon will set users back 2 per million input tokens and 10 per million output tokens. But those are just introductory prices valid until November 30.

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Eyes in the tech world have turned toward Mountain View, California this week. The San Francisco Bay Area city is where Google's headquarters is located, making it a logical place to hold the company's annual developer conference. That's right, gang, Google I/O 2026 kicked off on Tuesday with the usual opening keynote, which is where the company reveals what's arguably the event's most relevant info for consumers. Google made a ton of Android announcements last week, so its mobile ecosystem wasn't really on the agenda. But what else could the onus possibly have been on if not AI? We heard the word Gemini more times than I could possibly care to count, and the company had many updates to share on that front. Search, Google's longtime bread and butter, was a big focus of the event. The company talked up a new Ask YouTube feature as well as changes to AI subscription pricing and Workspace features like Docs and Gmail.

Google Search is becoming even more of a showpiece for its AI ambitions. Today at Google I/O 2026, the company announced that Search has been upgraded to the Gemini 3.5 Flash model, which it says offers faster inferencing, smarter results and the ability to process different types of media. As a result, Google is also launching a new Intelligent Search Box that can dynamically get larger to fit complex queries, as well as use videos, images, files and even Chrome tabs as inputs. None of this is a surprise, though. Over the past year, we've seen Google slowly upgrade the AI mode in Search -- now, the company is just making an AI a more essential part of searching the web. That's good news for users who like the more conversational capabilities of Google's AI, but it's even worse news for the people who are trying to maintain the simple purity of Google's original search engine.

Instead of clicking on a bunch of random website links, I was reading an AI summary positioned at the top of my search results and sometimes clicking through to double-check the accuracy of the output. The next evolution of Search that Google is building asks for even less active participation from users. You're really the most involved at the start of the journey, and that's it. You tell the agents what you want to know, and they do the clicking and even calling on your behalf. Rather than you going off on some online adventure, it's the agent that's hoovering up anything it can find and bouncing between different sites.

PCWorld explores the reality of "vibe coding" with AI tools, where the author attempted to build four apps using Claude Code and Google's Antigravity. Only one Docker Swarm dashboard succeeded after a week of effort, while three OpenClaw replications failed due to vague prompts and poor planning. The experience reveals that AI-assisted development still requires significant human creativity, detailed blueprints, and specific instructions to avoid "garbage in, garbage out" results. Like so many others, I jumped onto the vibe coding bandwagon, entranced by the idea of building my own incredibly useful apps with nothing but an AI prompt. Over the course of about six weeks, I did manage to build my own apps-four of them, to be precise.

PCWorld demonstrates using Google's Gemini AI to diagnose Plex Media Server issues through a systematic four-phase checkup process.