… 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. …
… Google’s blog post didn’t say what changes it will make to comply with the requirement for clearer attribution and links to publishers in AI results, but said the firm is “continuing to experiment with a range of new link designs in our AI experiences to make them more useful.” A notice published b… …
… But the German court emphasized that AI search engines do not enjoy those same protections because AI summaries merely provide “an additional function—one without which the use of the search engine would still be and is possible, and without which users are perfectly capable of finding results amid… …
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. …
… Circle to Search lets you search for images of anything that appears on your screen. The new capabilities are an additional layer in Circle to Search that analyzes everything in an image. Google mainly presents this as a way to determine what someone is wearing. …
… At I/O, Google previewed new agent-first search tools that can instantly build dashboards and mini-apps based on your search queries. As vague and pie-in-the-sky as Project Solara may be, Microsoft is pretty in tune with the rest of big tech’s AI plans. …
… The main system, Robin, has access to specialized literature search tools. One, Crow, produces a concise summary of papers, while Falcon gives a deep overview of the information contained in the paper. …
… SynthID will be integrated with Circle to Search, Lens, and AI Mode. You’ll also be able to use Gemini in Chrome by sharing a tab with the content in question. You can ask any variation of “Is this AI” to get a SynthID scan with these tools. …
… Rivian says that the AI can “control vehicle settings, climate control, navigation, media, messaging, and calling.” It can also reference the owner’s manual, will reply to questions, search for information, and even explain in-car alerts and help you troubleshoot problems. …
… But Google knows defaults are powerful, which is why it has paid billions of dollars to be the default search engine on Apple devices. A curious omission Google users were more willing to excuse AI in 2024, but the backlash is real in 2026. …