Google's New 'Search Profiles' Could Help Publishers Shine Amid Recent AI Changes
… The company also says that Search profiles do not change how traditional web search rankings work, and that they mainly influence visibility in Discover. …
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You Can Now Shop Directly From Google AI Mode
… AI Mode continues to show AI‑generated answers at the top of results, but it now goes further by giving users direct ways to act on those answers. Users can plan grocery runs in AI Mode and then send item lists straight into their Instacart cart—no more copy-pasting between search and shopping. …
Google Says It Stopped the World's First AI‑Built Zero-Day Exploit
… Google found that an AI model likely helped the threat actors discover and exploit the security flaw in the code. Their Python script was very detailed, with tutorial‑style comments and docstrings, and a "hallucinated" CVSS security score that does not match any real entry in official databases. …
Shared Claude Chats Appeared in Search After Google Indexed Public Links
… The indexed pages contained chat transcripts that sometimes included sensitive information, such as health data, internal documents, and personal details. …
Google Uses Machine Learning to Find New Exoplanets
… In this case, Google AI researcher Chris Shallue worked with astrophysicist Andrew Vanderburg from UT Austin to train the system with more than 15,000 labeled Kepler signals. …
Google Struck a Deal to Secretly Access Health Data on Millions of Americans
… Now we discover the company is doing it again, this time with personal medical data it ought to have no legal right to receive in the first place. …
Google Confirms It Still Tracks Users Who Disable Location Tracking
… Google rolls out features it claims will respect or enhance the end user's privacy. End users believe it. Then, at some later point, we discover it's not true. …