… YouTube, another Google company. Google’s presence in AI Mode citations is even more pronounced in certain niches. In the links analyzed by SE Ranking, around half of all citations in AI Mode for Entertainment and Travel returned to a Google Search result. …
In a letter addressed to Google’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, the workers asked the company to recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives for DeepMind employees. “Fundamentally, the push for unionization is about holding Go… …
… Similar to other announcements from Google I/O surrounding Google Search, many of the new changes to Flow are part of the company’s larger attempt to make AI agents, essentially automated software taskmasters, and vibe coding, building bespoke features with natural language prompts to AI, more main… …
… Anthropic and OpenAI lead developer adoption with their respective tools, Claude and Codex, according to a 2025 Stack Overflow survey. The company also demoed an agentic assistant called Spark that lives in Google’s Cloud and has access to its apps. …
… An expanded version of that tool, which Google says is a way to create “super widgets” and “mini apps,” will be available first for Google AI plan subscribers in the US this summer. …
… A Google spokesperson tells WIRED that if you turn off On-device AI, “certain security features will not be available, and sites that use the on device APIs will behave differently.” Of course, if neither option seems right, there's always an alternative: Use a different browser.
… For Gemini power users, Google is creating a new subscription tier, the AI Ultra plan, for $100 a month. It is also dropping the price of its top Gemini AI Ultra from $250 a month to $200. Gemini Omni Google announced Gemini Omni, an AI video generator akin to Sora 2. …
… Google claims it has safety at the forefront as it rolls out this new feature. “We try to prevent harm,” says Nicole Brichtova, who leads the product team working on Omni at Google DeepMind. “And, we try to do it in a way where we’re not blocking benign things.” Despite the stuttering and other err… …
… WIRED: Nick, there was a lot of concern a few years ago that AI was going to cannibalize Google, but the business has continued to do better than ever. How is AI changing Google’s ads business? …
… One of the main measures of success when trying this agent will be how often it goes off the rails. “Spark operates under your direction,” reads Google’s announcement blog about the agent. “You choose whether to turn it on and what apps it connects to, and it’s designed to ask you first before perf… …