… But this apparently isn’t even a new issue: when I got AI Overviews to mess up, it cited old Instagram and Reddit posts making fun of wrong responses to the same query. By the way, Google still isn’t showing an AI Overview when you search “disregard.” AI Overviews are going just great! …
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. …
… Universal Cart is launching in Search and Gemini this summer, with YouTube and Gmail coming later. Search your inbox with your voice using Gmail Live Google is expanding Gmail’s already robust search tools with a version of the Gemini Live experience for your inbox. …
… 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. …
… This is what OpenAI said on its C2PA help page, prior to it being updated to include SynthID yesterday: “Metadata like C2PA is not a silver bullet to address issues of provenance. …
… Vaccine discoveries, for example, have benefited in recent years from AI streamlining several steps of the development process. What we haven’t nailed is how generative AI improves the consumer health and fitness tracking experience compared to a Google search. …
… You have the new Intelligent Search box, and I definitely want to talk about Search in more detail. But you look at that search box and then you look at, say, Canvas which makes you the apps. …
… Of course, I ran into several bugs, and the app crashed fairly regularly, but again — first developer beta. …
… When Bessent and Wiles met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in April, it signaled that not only were they taking the threat seriously, they were now overriding Anthropic’s enemies in the Pentagon, who had, months prior, convinced Trump that Anthropic was “woke” and should be banned for government us… …
… As usual , Google is back with another set of the year’s top trending searches , as well as archived lists for previous years. Just don’t be too surprised when you see 2025 top spots taken up by Charlie Kirk , KPop Demon Hunters , or Arc Raiders . …