{"id":249625,"date":"2026-05-19T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/i-o-2026-is-bringing-more-ai-to-google-play\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:55:22","slug":"i-o-2026-is-bringing-more-ai-to-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/i-o-2026-is-bringing-more-ai-to-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"I\/O 2026 Is Bringing More AI To Google Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2175948\/io-2026-is-bringing-more-ai-to-google-play\/\">I\/O 2026 Is Bringing More AI To Google Play<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2175948\/io-2026-is-bringing-more-ai-to-google-play\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2175948\/io-2026-is-bringing-more-ai-to-google-play\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 13:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">Play Games Sidekick is also getting a wider rollout.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Stockinq\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This year&#8217;s Google I\/O has introduced a pile of updates for the Google Play storefront. Most of the new features are developer-focused as usual, but there are a couple standout changes to the way that regular Android users will interact with the store.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We knew that AI would be a big factor in Google&#8217;s upcoming plans, with Gemini Intelligence announced during the Android Show: I\/O Edition, and of course there&#8217;s more artificial intelligence to be had. Google Play is rolling out a new AI-powered feature called Ask Play. It&#8217;s an overlay that allows users to ask natural language questions in order to find new apps. This version expands on the previous Q&#038;A tool, which also leveraged AI to answer most queries for discovery. If you find you&#8217;re getting into a more complex chat with the assistant, the Ask Play highlights can show a top-level summary of your search at the top of the results page.<\/p>\n<p>Google is also bringing some improvements to the gaming experience with new features for Play Games Sidekick, which the company debuted last year. The in-game overlay will now include social information, such as who among your friends also plays the active app and what achievements they&#8217;ve unlocked. Apple has provided that type of information in Game Center for years, so bringing Android to parity is a welcome addition. After the initial wave of about 100 supported titles, Sidekick will be available for all participating games beginning this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2175948\/io-2026-is-bringing-more-ai-to-google-play\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\/O 2026 Is Bringing More AI To Google Play https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2175948\/io-2026-is-bringing-more-ai-to-google-play\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-19 13:45:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/io-2026-is-bringing-more-ai-to-google-play\/l-intro-1779136206.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-249625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249627,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249625\/revisions\/249627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}