David Black

Managing Director at @Google. Advisory Board at @KingsTrust. Board and Trustee at @Media_Trust. Tech, AI, media, digital, skills and social mobility.

[David Black @davidblack]

Great to have @KingsCollegeLon researchers using @GoogleQuantumAI’s Willow chip. Amazing tech innovation and research here in the UK. #britmaxximg

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

King's College team wins access to cutting-edge Google quantum chip https://t.co/E1c4rYPKSU

[David Black @davidblack]

Gemini Omni is amazing:

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Gave google omni a sketched camera path and asked it to generate drone POV footage.

[Google @Google]

🧵 Last week, at #GoogleIO, we shared our vision for what the next phase of agentic commerce looks like. Here are three key things to know:

1️⃣ We’re launching Universal Cart, an intelligent proactive hub for shopping that works across merchants and services.

🛒 With a Universal Cart, you will be able to add things to your cart whether you're shopping on Search, the @GeminiApp, @YouTube or @Gmail.

🛒 The moment you add something to your cart, your cart goes to work for you in the background. It will help find deals, look for price drops and give you insights on price history and alerts when things come back in stock.

🛒 Your cart will also proactively flag any product incompatibilities and suggest alternatives.

🛒 It runs on our Gemini models so the cart gets smarter as our models improve.

🛒 We’re rolling it out to Search and the Gemini app in the U.S. this summer, and we’ll bring it to more surfaces, with @YouTube and @Gmail to follow.

[Google @Google]

Earlier this year we announced AI Inbox in @Gmail to help you better manage and stay on top of your inbox by intelligently prioritizing your most important updates and time-sensitive tasks securely.

At #GoogleIO we shared our latest updates to AI Inbox, including:
📧 AI Inbox will generate personalized draft replies so you can review and respond in seconds.
📋 Managing your to-do list in a helpful homebase screen. Mark individual tasks done, dismiss unhelpful suggestions, and mark emails read in a single click.
📂 When you need to review a Google Doc, Sheet or Slide, the relevant link is surfaced right next to your to-do item.

[David Black @davidblack]

Amazing new model - check out Gemini Omni in @FlowbyGoogle:

[Google Flow @FlowbyGoogle]

This just in: Gemini Omni is now available for everyone to try in Google Flow! 🥳

Earlier this week, we introduced Gemini Omni, our new model that lets you edit your videos using natural language (it’s like Nano Banana, but for video!). We have loved seeing your video edits so much that we are opening up access to everyone! If you are not a Google AI subscriber, you can still create two Omni videos free of charge each day.

Check out how we created this video with a one-shot prompt (🤯), and try it for yourself with Omni now.

https://t.co/N6P2Oj4841

[David Black @davidblack]

At #GML2026 we announced an amazing ✨42 product and feature launches✨ that are redefining Lead Gen. Check them out:

[AdsLiaison @adsliaison]

👋 Hello, Lead Gen marketers! Here’s a special lead gen-focused look at #GML2026.

See how some of the day’s news, plus other recent announcements, are aimed at helping you drive more qualified leads with on-brand creatives, improve workflows, and – key to making the magic happen – measure better.

And as always, let me know if you have any questions!
https://t.co/6DDPLRGBou

[David Black @davidblack]

All the ads innovation from #GML2026:

[Google Ads @GoogleAds]

1/12 It’s official, the next wave of ad innovations has landed at #GML2026 🚀

From ads that answer to powerful new ways to measure your true ROI, the future is looking smarter than ever.

For more on all of the announcements, check out →
https://t.co/CdSCdhwAmp

Which of these updates 👆will make the biggest impact on your strategy?

#GML2026

[Google Ads @GoogleAds]

1/12 It’s official, the next wave of ad innovations has landed at #GML2026 🚀

From ads that answer to powerful new ways to measure your true ROI, the future is looking smarter than ever.

For more on all of the announcements, check out →
https://t.co/CdSCdhwAmp

Which of these updates 👆will make the biggest impact on your strategy?

#GML2026

[David Black @davidblack]

A great #GML2026 - check out the amazing ads innovations:

[Lorraine Twohill @LorraineTwohill]

Incredible to see the announcements out of #GML2026 today, I always think of it as our Ads I/O! Everything we know about marketing is changing right now, and it’s actually a wonderful thing. We’re making Gemini work a lot harder for marketers - smarter ads in Search, new ways to drive results on YouTube, better tools to create ads that work at scale, and so much more.

[David Black @davidblack]

@LorraineTwohill @Google @GoogleAds @YouTube A great #GML2026 and more amazing ads innovations - well done to everyone involved.

[David Black @davidblack]

@GoogleAds A great new feature for marketers to measure the full value of Demand Gen.

[Google @Google]

We now have 13 products with over a billion users…

And five products with more than 3 billion users each.

#GoogleIO

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Today we are starting to roll out the biggest upgrade to the Google Search box in over 25 years — now completely reimagined with AI, along with Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new default model for AI mode users globally!

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Gemini 3.5 Flash is amazing!

- Performs better than 3.1 Pro on coding & agentic tasks
- 4x faster than other frontier models
- 12x faster in @antigravity - 800 tokens/sec!
- Often at less than half the cost

And Pro to come…

Try it in @antigravity, @GeminiApp & more - enjoy!

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Just off stage at #GoogleIO, some highlights from this morning 🧵

Gemini 3.5 Flash is available today for everyone in @antigravity and across our products and APIs.

Compared to 3.1 Pro, 3.5 Flash is better across almost all benchmarks with huge progress in coding. It’s also comparable to the best models but very fast (4x faster tokens/ second than other frontier models). And when looking at the intelligence versus output speed, it’s in a league of its own in the top right quadrant.

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

More than 900 million users are coming to the Gemini app every month.

A big part of that growth is how fast we’re shipping. Here’s a look back at some of the biggest features we’ve launched this past year. 🧵 #GoogleIO

[Google @Google]

We’re offering $2M in prizes to builders who want to change the world for the better. 🌍

We just launched the Build with Gemini XPRIZE hackathon at #GoogleIO — a global competition challenging you to leverage our agentic tools to build real-world solutions that drive positive, lasting change.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Gemini Omni is a major leap in world understanding & multimodal editing! It can take photos, video & audio and build entirely new scenes. Over time it’ll be able to handle any input & any output - starting w/ video

You can even give it your own videos & iterate on your ideas:

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

Introducing Gemini Spark!

Our 24/7 personal AI agent designed to proactively manage tasks and help you navigate your digital life, all under your direction.

Coming to trusted testers this week, and as a Beta for US Google AI Ultra subscribers next week!

[Google @Google]

Meet Gemini 3.5 Flash — our strongest agentic and coding model yet.

It delivers frontier-level performance at 4x the speed of comparable frontier models — often at less than half the cost.

Generally available, starting today. 🧵

#GoogleIO