Google's recent unveiling of what it calls a new class of agentic experiences" feels like a turning point. At its I/O 2025 event in May, for example, the company showed off a digital assistant that didn't just answer questions; it helped work on a bicycle repair by finding a matching user manual, locating a YouTube...

This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Don't let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality -Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google's I/O 2025 event in May, the company...