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Google shifts Android news to a virtual event ahead of its I/O developer conference


News about Android is being relegated to a side show at Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, next month. On Monday, the company announced it

The decision to move the Android portion of Google I/O to its own separate event ahead of the start of I/O suggests this year’s developer conference could be even more AI-heavy than usual. AI news and updates were already taking up an increasingly longer portion of the Google I/O consumer and developer keynote addresses. Still, moving a bulk of the Android news to a virtual show ahead of the main event is a notable programming change for the developer conference.

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