Google has introduced Mariner, an advanced AI agent and prototype powered by its Gemini 2.0 framework. Here's how the AI agent is changing the search game online.

Google Gemini 2 comes with an AI agent that can browse the web for me, Project Mariner, but I already have privacy questions about it.

Google is also investing in video games and AI in another way: creating playable virtual worlds on the fly from a prompt image using a “foundation world model” called Genie 2 that it showed off last week. That work seems early, too: Genie 2 can only generate consistent worlds for “up to a minute,” Google says.