{"id":678348,"date":"2026-05-18T22:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678348\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:13:11","slug":"google-i-o-2026-live-updates-latest-news-on-android-17-and-gemini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678348\/","title":{"rendered":"Google I\/O 2026 Live Updates: Latest News on Android 17 and Gemini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image-16.png\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>    Google\/Jeffrey Hazelwood\/CNET<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Google transformed the Fitbit app into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/google-health-announcements-fitbit-air-redesigned-fitbit-health-app-new-coach\/\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Health<\/a> while debuting the displayless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/fitbit-air-google-coach-fitness-tracker-band-first-impressions\/\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fitbit Air fitness tracker<\/a>. The announcements made clear how Google plans to integrate Gemini into its health-tracking product, while also creating a competitor against the more expensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/health\/fitness\/whoop-5-0-review\/\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whoop band<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While IO is unlkely to show off more products that would tie into Google Health, the company might use the developer conference to show more ways that Google Health is teed up to integrate with other services. Google already announced that the new Health app will link with services like Apple Health along with medical records, and the IO developer conference could provide a larger look at other ways the company plans to offer AI coaching. All the while, privacy will likely remain a high priority as these ambitions develop, as health data is by nature quite sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/google-health-announcements-fitbit-air-redesigned-fitbit-health-app-new-coach\/\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s Biggest Health Announcements: New Fitbit Air, Goodbye Fitbit App and Hello &#8216;Coach&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google\/Jeffrey Hazelwood\/CNET Earlier this month, Google transformed the Fitbit app into Google Health while debuting the displayless Fitbit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-678348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}