Google Pomelli is now capable of creating your entire brand from the ground up.

      From scratch to a complete brand kit and an operational website in just a few clicks.

      Google I/O 2026 is placing significant emphasis on empowering users to create. In addition to introducing the new Gemini 3.5 flash model, a revamped Antigravity 2.0 IDE, and Google AI Studio, the company has also enhanced Google Pomelli—a tool that aids small businesses in establishing their brand identity.

      Released last year via Google Labs, Google reports that Pomelli has already assisted millions of businesses in producing professional product images, social media campaigns, and advertisements. Today, the company is incorporating an array of new features that expand the tool's functionality beyond just social media content.

      What is Pomelli?

      Pomelli is an AI marketing solution developed by Google Labs in collaboration with Google DeepMind. It aims to help small and medium-sized enterprises create marketing content that aligns with their brand without the need for a design team or a large budget.

      The tool operates in three steps. You input your website, and Pomelli evaluates it to construct your Business DNA, which includes your tone of voice, color scheme, custom fonts, and images.

      From this point, it can devise customized campaign ideas and generate ready-to-download marketing assets for your social media, advertisements, and website.

      What’s new in Pomelli?

      The most significant enhancement is the Pomelli Agent, which now assists you in developing your Business DNA even if you're starting from the ground up. You can either upload existing brand materials and product images or engage in a chat with the agent to define your brand identity. In either case, the agent handles the bulk of the work.

      Once that's established, two new features are introduced. The first is brand books, an all-inclusive guide that consolidates your brand’s visuals and style into a single, shareable document. The second, and likely the more intriguing addition, is the capability to design and launch a complete website in just a few clicks.

      These additions will enable small businesses with no online presence to formulate their brand identity, market on social media, and create a professional website—all without needing to hire an expensive consulting firm. However, only time will reveal how effective this will be.

      Rachit is an experienced tech journalist with over seven years of experience covering consumer technology.

      Google aims for Gemini to facilitate the next groundbreaking scientific discovery.

      Gemini for Science delves deeper into the workflows of real research using agentic AI.

      Google is integrating Gemini more thoroughly into research processes, beginning with ideation, experimentation, and scientific literature. During Google I/O 2026, the company unveiled Gemini for Science, an experimental toolkit centered on agentic AI in the scientific field. It focuses on the manual tasks associated with discovery, such as hypothesis formulation, computational testing, and literature analysis.

      Discord calls finally receive end-to-end encryption, but direct messages aren’t included.

      Discord has spent three years developing one of the most comprehensive cross-platform encryption systems ever released, which unfortunately does not extend to the aspect of the app that most users rely on for everyday communication.

      Discord has completed a project initiated in 2023, and while the outcome is truly impressive, there is a significant caveat. As of early March 2026, all standard voice and video calls on Discord are now end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), and no adjustments are required from users, as the feature is automatically enabled. The encryption utilizes DAVE, Discord's proprietary open-source protocol.

      OpenAI launches a new website to determine if an image is real or AI-generated.

      OpenAI and Google are collaborating to label every AI-generated image.

      Identifying AI-generated images is becoming increasingly challenging. OpenAI is seeking to address this issue, partnering with Google for this monumental endeavor. OpenAI has announced a major update regarding how it manages content provenance, which refers to the method of identifying the source of an image and whether it was created by AI.