Amazon tests AI chatbot responses in its search.
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Google is testing AI chatbot search for YouTube
Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing “a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation,” with results pulling in things like longform videos, YouTube Shorts, and text about what you’re searching for. …
Google Search’s AI evolution includes more ads
Google’s AI-powered Search era apparently also extends to its ads. Now, when you look for a product in Search, Google’s Gemini AI model will surface relevant items and generate a “custom explainer” about why you should purchase a specific one. …
Google’s AI Mode update lets you open links without leaving the page
… To do this, select the “plus” button in AI Mode or in Google’s search box, and you’ll see a list of your recent tabs that you can select. AI Mode will then answer your question based on your tabs. Google says you can also add images or files to these searches as well. …
Meta’s Forum is part Reddit, part Facebook, and part Google AI Overview
… Forum’s AI chatbot lives under the “Ask” tab, where you can get AI-generated responses pulling from posts to various Facebook groups, similar to the way Google’s search results and AI overviews pull from the Reddit content it licenses and other sources on the internet. …
Google’s Spotlight-like desktop search bar for Windows is available for everyone
… By pressing the Alt + Space shortcut, you can bring up the app, which lets you search both the web and files on your computer and on Google Drive. While searching, you can click through different views like All, Images, and AI Mode. …
DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rules
… Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzmnJoqEoJk In addition to asking ChatGPT for signs that something is related to DEI, Fox also asked the AI chatbot to scan NEH grants for what he called “Detection Codes” related to “protected characteristics,” according to the filing: After being deployed fr… …
Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for
Google’s AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term “disregard,” the AI Overview section would include a response like what you’d see from a more traditional AI chatbot instead of the typical AI summary, as spotted on X. …
Google Search is getting its biggest changes ever
… Video: Google's new search box Liz Reid, Google’s vice president of Search, said during a briefing that the company wanted to eliminate the “friction” between AI Overviews and AI Mode. “We really work to make that much more seamless and simplified, so that for most users, they don’t have to think a… …
Would you let robots spend your money? Google is betting on it
… As more shoppers use AI chatbots to research products to buy or get recommendations, getting surfaced in AI search platforms is becoming more and more urgent for retailers and brands, which are already tweaking their online presence to try to get chatbots to mention them. …