Google dominated today's AI news at its I/O 2026 Developer keynote, unveiling the Gemini Omni model family designed to generate virtually any content type, while also expanding the Gemini app into a proactive, agentic personal assistant capable of managing emails, monitoring inboxes, and handling financial tasks. In a significant hardware and software move, Alibaba also made headlines by revealing its more powerful Zhenwu AI chip alongside an upgraded large language model, signaling intensifying competition in the global AI race.