{"id":455645,"date":"2026-05-18T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455645\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:10:15","slug":"google-i-o-2026-live-updates-latest-news-on-android-17-and-gemini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455645\/","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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnet-cms.prod.cnet.tech\/hub\/cmsframework\/reroute\/content_article\/b7b06f67-9f12-4d56-a466-94576c37187a#link={%22label%22:%22Google&#039;s%20Biggest%20Health%20Announcements:%20New%20Fitbit%20Air,%20Goodbye%20Fitbit%20App%20and%20Hello%20&#039;Coach&#039;%22,%22assetType%22:%22article%22,%22uuid%22:%22b7b06f67-9f12-4d56-a466-94576c37187a%22,%22slug%22:%22google-health-announcements-fitbit-air-redesigned-fitbit-health-app-new-coach%22,%22linkText%22:%22Google%20Health%22,%22href%22:%22http:\/\/cnet-cms.prod.cnet.tech\/content\/article\/b7b06f67-9f12-4d56-a466-94576c37187a\/version\/us%22,%22role%22:%22content_link%22,%22edition%22:%22us%22}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google Health<\/a>\u00a0while debuting the displayless\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnet-cms.prod.cnet.tech\/hub\/cmsframework\/reroute\/content_article\/0bb554d5-c352-433b-a5bc-44282b280819#link={%22label%22:%22The%20Fitbit%20Air&#039;s%20Bare-Bones%20Design%20Is%20Hiding%20a%20Much%20Bigger%20Strategy%22,%22assetType%22:%22article%22,%22uuid%22:%220bb554d5-c352-433b-a5bc-44282b280819%22,%22slug%22:%22fitbit-air-google-coach-fitness-tracker-band-first-impressions%22,%22linkText%22:%22Fitbit%20Air%20fitness%20tracker%22,%22href%22:%22http:\/\/cnet-cms.prod.cnet.tech\/content\/article\/0bb554d5-c352-433b-a5bc-44282b280819\/version\/us%22,%22role%22:%22content_link%22,%22edition%22:%22us%22}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnet-cms.prod.cnet.tech\/hub\/cmsframework\/reroute\/content_article\/0f52efa9-bb17-4b3e-be35-f3177210bc26#link={%22label%22:%22Whoop%205.0%20Review:%20A%20Fitness%20Tracker%20Focused%20on%20Performance%20and%20Longevity%22,%22assetType%22:%22article%22,%22uuid%22:%220f52efa9-bb17-4b3e-be35-f3177210bc26%22,%22slug%22:%22whoop-5-0-review%22,%22linkText%22:%22Whoop%20band%22,%22href%22:%22http:\/\/cnet-cms.prod.cnet.tech\/content\/article\/0f52efa9-bb17-4b3e-be35-f3177210bc26\/version\/us%22,%22role%22:%22content_link%22,%22edition%22:%22us%22}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Whoop band<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While IO is unlikely 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 set 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:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnet-cms.prod.cnet.tech\/hub\/cmsframework\/reroute\/content_article\/b7b06f67-9f12-4d56-a466-94576c37187a#link={%22label%22:%22Google&#039;s%20Biggest%20Health%20Announcements:%20New%20Fitbit%20Air,%20Goodbye%20Fitbit%20App%20and%20Hello%20&#039;Coach&#039;%22,%22assetType%22:%22article%22,%22uuid%22:%22b7b06f67-9f12-4d56-a466-94576c37187a%22,%22slug%22:%22google-health-announcements-fitbit-air-redesigned-fitbit-health-app-new-coach%22,%22linkText%22:%22Google&#039;s%20Biggest%20Health%20Announcements:%20New%20Fitbit%20Air,%20Goodbye%20Fitbit%20App%20and%20Hello%20&#039;Coach&#039;%22,%22href%22:%22http:\/\/cnet-cms.prod.cnet.tech\/content\/article\/b7b06f67-9f12-4d56-a466-94576c37187a\/version\/us%22,%22role%22:%22content_link%22,%22edition%22:%22us%22}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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\u00a0Google Health\u00a0while debuting the displayless\u00a0Fitbit Air fitness tracker.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-455645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}