… AI Overviews may be the most prominent element of Google’s AI search shift, but that’s increasingly looking like a stopgap as AI Mode spins up. Google has a new “seamless” search experience that ties AI Mode into AI Overviews. Most Google searches now produce an AI Overview. …
The top of a Google search page is prime real estate, but it has primarily been the domain of AI Overviews for the past two years. Websites that spent years optimizing for Google search haven’t exactly loved being pushed down the page by a chatbot and may blame AI Overviews for recent traffic drops. …
… We reached out to Google to ask if this wording is due to a change in Chrome’s on-device AI. “This doesn’t reflect a change to how we handle on-device AI for Chrome,” a Google spokesperson said. “The data that is passed to the model is processed solely on device.” According to Google, the team deci… …
… Google contends that none of these bypasses actually work. More SynthID in more places Even if no one has been able to crack SynthID, that doesn’t matter for the vast majority of AI images on the Internet—only Google’s AI models apply SynthID. …
… Google says this system is aimed at “photorealistic and meaningfully AI altered or generated content.” An animated video created with AI or a realistic one that only has a few AI elements will continue to have AI disclosures in the expanded description box. …
… Gemma allows users to tinker with AI on their hardware rather than sharing all their data with a cloud AI system from Google or someone else. Google also changed the license for Gemma 4 to Apache 2.0, which is much more permissive than the custom Gemma license Google employed for previous releases. …
… On Android, Google doesn’t even bother trying to do that locally. Talking to Gemini always goes straight to the cloud. After inking the Google deal, Apple apparently got to work distilling Google’s giant cloud-based Gemini models. …
… Google’s scam call detection feature will be available on all phones running Android 12 or higher, but it does require you to have three Google apps installed: Phone by Google , Contacts , and Google Messages . …
… Gemini 3.5 Flash is rolling out across a wide range of Google products starting today, and Google again claims this model is even better than its last-gen Pro model. That has been a trend with Google’s tick-tock model updates over the past year, but the team says this release is special. …
… Emoji now have a more detailed 3D appearance, but you’ll see them first on Pixel devices over the summer. Other Android 17 devices will have to wait until “later this year.” Most device makers craft their own emoji, so you may never see Google’s new smileys outside of apps like YouTube and Gmail. …
