Sundar Pichai Says Today's AI Will Look Like a Flip Phone in 3 Years, Codex Gets Locked Computer Use
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of May 22nd, 2026. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sat down for an exclusive interview following I/O, making the case that today's most advanced AI will look as primitive as a flip phone within three years — with agents running 24/7 across every device, engineers managing teams of AI rather than writing code, and YouTube staying creator-first even as Gemini transforms how content gets made. OpenAI dropped another wave of Codex upgrades including Appshots for instantly attaching any open app window to a coding thread, Goal Mode for multi-day autonomous…
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