… Google started testing AI Mode for search just over a year ago, making the shift official at I/O 2025. You hear a lot of complaints around the Internet about how AI is changing Google’s search products, but Google is getting what it wants: more searches. …
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. …
… Sometimes it hides identities by merging all the data for a group that shares some trait, like a postal code. Google also might mix different types of search queries together to hide connections to a sensitive topic. …
… To bring about the Parameter-to-Prompt Injection an attacker sends the target an email that contains the URL with the syntax https://m365.cloud.microsoft/search/?auth=2&origindomain=microsoft365&q=. The field contains an instruction. …
… With its OpenAI deal sputtering, the company is now looking to the future, and this is it: agents instead of apps. This is an interesting pitch for how we might actually use AI agents, and it’s not coming totally out of left field. Google is also pursuing agentic interfaces in its search products. …
… Tenor is a database of searchable GIFs, which used to serve animated images to sites like X/Twitter, Discord, and more. Now, it only serves Google—maybe the headstone is a bit premature. Like many Google products, Tenor started as an independent company. …
… On the other hand, SynthID is deeply integrated with AI-generated content. The digital watermark is present in the pixels of images and videos and in the waveform of AI songs and audio overviews from products like NotebookLM. …
… The Finance website is also gaining a new AI-powered research tool that can send you periodic updates. …
… As the OpenAI executive explained, Apple didn’t fully explain how the integration would work when the deal came together, so OpenAI took a “leap of faith” it now appears to regret. “When we heard about this opportunity, it sounded amazing: being able to acquire a giant number of customers and have … …
… 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. …