• by Laurie Sullivan , 10 hours ago

Google CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed that 75% of new code that creates many of the company’s applications -- from cloud to advertising services -- is AI-generated, up from 50% last fall and 25% in 2024.

The increase was reported in a blog post published Wednesday during the company’s Cloud Next 2026 conference in Las Vegas.

“Our first-party models now process more than 16 billion tokens per minute via direct API use by our customers, up from 10 billion last quarter,” Pichai wrote, explaining how the company is “firmly in the agentic Gemini era.”

As Google demonstrates innovations, the European Union has begun to increase pressure on the company to “lift barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android handsets” that the company believes could compromise users’ security and privacy.

After a day filled with presentations from Google about its innovations, the EU Commission is preparing to tell Google what it must do to give competitors like OpenAI ChatGPT and Anthropic Claude access to the same features on Android as those available to Google’s Gemini, reported Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, who added that the requirements were still in draft form.

During the opening day of the Google Cloud presentation Wednesday, CEO of Google Cloud Thomas Kurian spoke about how AI agents have become the “blueprint” and foundation to support companies, hyper computers, agentic data cloud, and autonomous security applications.

Processing speed also has been a requirement to process data for real-time analytics, as well as ad placements and targeting that make personalized experiences truly personalized minute by minute.

This year, Google will bring the eighth generation of its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) with a dual-chip approach -- TPU 8t and TPU 8i.

AI code is changing the way businesses operate. Experiential state-of-the-art agents that transform customer experiences have been launched at companies such as Home Depot, Best Buy, and Papa Johns Pizza, as well as on YouTube.

Best Buy’s agent guides consumers through technical specs and issues resolutions, and can move from a text chat to a phone call without losing context of the inquiry, very similar to Home Depot’s Magic Apron AI agent assistant.

Patrick Marlo, senior product manager at Google Cloud, demonstrated a YouTube TV customer support service that launched a voice agent for NFL Sunday tickets and subscription services. It can text links to mobile phones, and summarizes details of platform offers in multiple languages.