572: Dispatches From Behind the Walled Garden

A triumphant return from WWDC to talk about the official release of Android 17 and the new Google Home speaker.

Siri AI isn't Gemini; it's something else. Apple details its revamped plans for the agentic battle ahead.

Google pleads with you to believe it's doing all that it can to save the water it wastes during an AI prompt. They also have a new experimental AI app that turns your to-do list into a children's story.

Flo and Andy both have had a few weeks with the new Fitbit Air. And—surprise, surprise—DuckDuckGo downloads have exponentially increased since last week's Google I/O keynote.

What's that Spark that's trying to start a fire? Why, that's all of Google's I/O 2026 announcements.

We're talking about Android's evolution into an "intelligent" operating system and why Chrome is storing 4GB of data on your computer.

Android Show is next week, what will we learn? Google's DeepMind workers overseas are taking action against the company's military AI contracts.

Google is still making a ton of money and Motorola launched a new family of foldables. Why does Google hate the taste of its own dogfood?

Agentic AI is coming to Google's enterprise, whether you like it or not, and the next Pixel phone might bring back notification lights. Google is beta testing more ugly ads.

Gemini's new safety guardrails, how Google plans to punish browser hijacking, and the company's attempt to make Gemini happen on the Mac.