Unsurprisingly, the bulk of Google's announcements at I/O this week focused on AI. Although past Google I/O events also heavily leaned on AI, what made this year's announcements different is that the features were spread across nearly every Google offering and touched nearly every task people partake in every day.

Google rolled out a series of updates to its artificial intelligence ambitions at its I/O developer conference, Brian Cheung reports.

Google is aiming to prove that it can make its core products better through AI without displacing its highly lucrative advertising and search businesses. Key announcements Google made Tuesday: It debuted Flow,