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Google's AI Mode Suddenly Can't Recall Who Won the 2020 Presidential Election

Google's AI Mode search tool returned no answer for much of Wednesday when asked who won the 2020 presidential election, while it correctly reported the 2024 result, and Google attributed the non-answers to "a technical gap" it is "working to fix." The failure affected the company's flagship AI search product for an extended period, raising questions about how the tool handles politically sensitive queries.

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It has no trouble reporting who won the 2024 election, however. Google blames its AI's suspiciously vague non-answers on 'a technical gap' that it’s 'working to fix.'

Google's AI Mode is supposed to be the company’s most versatile and far-reaching web-search tool, but for much of Wednesday, it returned the equivalent of a 404 error when asked one of the simplest queries imaginable: Who won the …

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