Google has begun attaching AI Overview labels to local knowledge panels built from Google Business Profile data, with a "Show more" button that expands into an AI Mode-style chat interface, according …
A developer at the brand-monitoring startup Luxcerta ran the company's own AI-visibility method on its week-old brand and found that Gemini, with web grounding enabled, misidentified "Luxcerta" as a t…
Google Search returns an AI Overview reading "...nuts? 🥜" for a blank search conducted via the URL google.com/search?si=, an easter egg reported by @harmo_snipe on X. The AI Overview adds, "It looks l…
Google has rolled out its Digital Markets Act changes in Europe, calling them the "largest reduction in quality" in the 29-year history of Google Search, according to a Google official speaking to Reu…
Google is now showing fully expanded AI Overview summaries with an 'Ask anything' text box by default for some desktop Search queries, a change that directs users into AI Mode without requiring them t…
Google's AI Overview is telling users that Flock safety cameras contain 1 to 5 grams of gold and 2 to 23 pounds of copper, citing an anonymous Substack post and an AI-generated Instagram post, despite…
A developer who runs a daily probe of AI assistants found that across 13 Google AI answers, 168 citations were used and no domain appeared twice in any single answer. The pattern suggests Google's AI …
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…
Ford's F-150 information is fractured across multiple webpages optimized for human buying journeys, but AI assistants like Google's AI Overview struggle to synthesize it, instead pulling answers from …
Google is negotiating AI content licensing deals with roughly 20 national news publishers, demanding real money, transparency, and control as regulators like the UK's CMA impose new rules. The talks f…
A German regional court ruled that Google's AI Overviews constitute the company's own speech, making it liable for false statements generated by the technology. The temporary injunction bars Google fr…
Google is testing a hidden feature in Chrome Canary that redirects search queries directly to AI Mode, bypassing traditional search results and blue links. The experimental flag, discovered by Windows…
Google's AI Overview feature incorrectly stated there are two Ps in "Google" and spelled "Trump" as "t-r-p-u-m," highlighting the technology's persistent difficulty with spelling. The errors stem from…
Google's new AI Overview feature, rolled out earlier this week, is incorrectly handling searches for single verbs like "disregard," "ignore," and "stop," returning sparse, chatbot-like responses inste…