Chrome’s new AI Mode button could be Google’s way of keeping you from rivals

A new AI Mode button now appears on mobile, offering quick access to Google’s AI tools.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to ...

Google Unveils Ironwood, Its ‘Most Powerful’ and ‘Energy-Efficient’ AI Chip to Date

Google unveils Ironwood, its most powerful TPU, for the age of inference, and Axion Arm VMs promising up to 2× better ...
Observer

Tim Berners-Lee Warns A.I. Could Kill the Web Economy as No One Visits Sites Anymore

As A.I. chatbots replace human readers, Tim Berners-Lee warns the World Wide Web’s ad-driven business model could collapse ...

Artificial Intelligencer: How Google regained its AI edge

This was originally published in the Artificial Intelligencer newsletter, which is issued every Wednesday. Sign up here to ...
BGR

Nano Banana AI Image Generator Is Now Available In Google Search: Here's How To Use It

Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash AI image generation model was known as Nano Banana during pre-release testing when it first went viral. The name stuck after Google released Nano Banana in late August. The ...
Engadget

Google is making search ads more and less avoidable

Google is tweaking how sponsored results will appear in Search. Going forward, it will group any text ads on the Search page into a "Sponsored results" section that will appear at the top of the ...
Wired

UK Watchdog Targets Google Search in Competition Crackdown

Google may have to change the way its search engine works in the UK, including potentially offering users the option to choose rival search services, as part of new regulation from the UK’s ...
Digital Trends

Google Search flips the AI switch for millions more users

What’s happened? Google is lighting up AI Mode in Search for a lot more people, starting today. The rollout adds support for more than 35 new languages and 40-plus new countries and territories, ...
VentureBeat

Perplexity launches massive search API to take on Google’s dominance

Perplexity AI launched a comprehensive search application programming interface on Thursday, giving developers direct access to the same massive web index that powers the startup's answer engine and ...
Mashable

Google launches Search Live, a Gemini-powered AI search tool that sees through your phone's camera

Google is officially launching its AI-powered Search Live feature in the U.S. on Wednesday, which enables mobile users to get real-time information with their voice and phone camera. Previously ...
Android

Google Search Live: What It Is & How It's Different from Gemini

Google has officially launched Search Live in the U.S., a new feature that lets you use your phone’s camera and voice to ask questions in real time. The AI-powered tool provides instant verbal answers ...
Bleeping Computer

ChatGPT Search is now smarter as OpenAI takes on Google Search

OpenAI has rolled out a big update to ChatGPT Search, which is an AI-powered search feature, similar to Google AI Mode. After a recent update, ChatGPT Search is more accurate and reliable. You'll also ...