Google released its first ATLAS study on July 23, analyzing about 15 million de-identified interactions across the Gemini app, AI Mode and Gemini API, finding AI activity across 68% of occupations rep…
Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago, according to a Similarweb report, driving a shift from search as a gateway to the web to Google itself becoming the destina…
Google researchers found that Americans ask Gemini and AI Mode about government services, health, money, and legal issues far more often than they spend time on those activities, while eating, dressin…
Google launched the first iteration of the AI & Economy ATLAS (Activity, Task, Landscape, and Adoption Study), a large-scale, de-identified study of how people use Google's AI products, built from 15 …
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said Google's AI-powered search features, including AI Overviews and AI Mode, are driving growth in search queries, with AI Mode surpassing a billion monthly active users si…
Alphabet reported Q2 2026 earnings of $119.8 billion in revenue, up from $96.4 billion a year earlier, as Google Cloud revenue surged 82% to $24.8 billion and net income hit $112 billion. During the e…
Google's Merchant Center opened a pilot last week for AI performance insights, a report showing retailers shopping-related questions people ask AI Mode and AI Overviews, but the data groups queries by…
Google LLC announced it is letting users link Canva, Instacart and YouTube with AI Mode, its conversational AI-powered search tool, in a significant expansion of the feature announced in a blog post.…
Google has renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding the research and note-taking tool into its broader Gemini AI brand. The company says the platform's functionality remains unchanged, but the r…
Google is rolling out a new feature in the U.S. this week that lets users connect apps like Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music directly to AI Mode in Search, enabling actions such as adding groceries…
Google is renaming its AI note-taking app NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, the company announced Thursday, while keeping it as a standalone app that will integrate more deeply with Gemini and Google Sea…
Google's AI Overviews reached more than 2.5 billion monthly users by mid-2026, according to a June 2026 investor presentation, as the company transforms search from a list of links into an AI-driven i…
Google has connected its AI Mode Personal Intelligence feature to Google Calendar, allowing the AI to add invites or meetings directly to a user's calendar and tailor responses based on their schedule…
Google has categorically denied a report from Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute that claims Google Search's AI Overviews and AI Mode pose an "unacceptable risk" for children, stating the …
Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute found that Google's AI Overview and AI Mode tools failed to provide appropriate crisis resources in 42% and 23% of mental health queries, respectively, w…
A new Common Sense Media report rates Google Search's AI Overviews and AI Mode as "Unacceptable Risk" for children, finding that the AI completed homework, generated inaccurate information, offered de…
Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin clarified that advertisers must continue using Google's AI-powered targeting solutions, including Broad Match, Performance Max, and AI Max, to make ads eligible for AI …
Google added generative AI performance reports to Search Console, placing AI visibility data alongside traditional search metrics to signal that AI visibility is search visibility, not a separate disc…
Google data reveals AI Mode search queries are now triple the length of traditional queries, with follow-up queries growing 40% monthly and multimodal interactions accounting for over one in six searc…
Google launched a new visual treatment in AI Mode that places prominent links to recipe sites at the top of responses for relevant recipe queries, including images, creator names, ratings, and ingredi…