Google Ai Overviews

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  Video Overviews in NotebookLM Updated With Google’s Nano Banana AI Model, Six New Visual Styles

  Google on Monday announced new features for NotebookLM to help users better understand complex topics. The company is bringing Nano Banana to Video Overviews, taking advantage of its generation speed, element-based editing, and consistent character. As per the company, there are six new visual styles in Video Overviews, including Anime, Heritage, a...

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  Google NotebookLM Gets Four New Audio Overviews Formats With New AI Voices

  NotebookLM is now offering four new Audio Overviews formats to let users customise the AI-generated audio discussions. The four new formats are dubbed Deep Dive, Brief, Critique, and Debate. Each of these new formats features a new artificial intelligence (AI) voice, but not all of them come with two AI hosts.

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  Google NotebookLM’s Video Overviews Expanded to 80 Languages, Audio Overviews Gets an Upgrade

  Google’s NotebookLM introduced Video Overviews last month, which can generate narrative-based visual slides based on the selected sources. On Monday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced that the feature is now available in 80 languages globally. The expansion will now allow users to select sources that are not in the English language and...

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  Google Defends AI Search Features, Claims They Provide 'More Quality Clicks' as Traffic Declines

  Google defended its artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search amid growing concerns about their role in declining website traffic. On Wednesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant said that third-party reports suggesting a drop in search traffic are inaccurate and based on “flawed methodologies.” It defended features such as AI Overviews ...

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  Google NotebookLM Gets a New Video Overviews Feature, Studio Panel Upgraded

  Google NotebookLM is getting another artificial intelligence (AI) feature to help users better understand complex topics. On Tuesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced the rollout of Video Overviews, a tool that can generate a visual narrative-focused overview from the sources. The new feature is aimed at complementing the existing Audio...

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  Google Brings a Native Media Player in Gemini Mobile App, Lets Users Play Audio Overviews

  Google has added a new feature in the Gemini mobile apps, which will now make it possible for users to play Audio Overviews. Audio Overviews was first added in the company’s NotebookLM product, and was later brought to Gemini earlier this year. However, the functionality was such that while Gemini app users could upload a file to generate a podca...

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  Google’s AI Mode in Search Hits 100 Million Users, New Features Rolling Out: Report

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed on Wednesday that AI Mode in Search now has more than 100 million monthly active users across the US and India. The information was shared during the company’s second quarterly earnings call with investors. The Mountain View-based tech giant also highlighted that the other artificial intelligence (AI) feature in ...

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  The End of the Search Era: How AI Is Quietly Breaking the Internet’s Traffic Model

  According to Similarweb (via The Economist), the global search traffic fell by 15 percent year-on-year (YoY) as of June 2025. Older data also show that the no-click-through rate to news websites grew from 56 percent in May 2024 (this was when AI Overviews was launched), to almost 69 percent in May 2025.

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  Google Discover Reportedly Showing AI Summaries of News Articles to Some Users

  Google Discover, the personalised news and blog feed within the Google app on smartphones, is reportedly getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature. As per the report, the feed is replacing news headlines and direct links to news articles with an AI-generated summary, similar to the AI Overviews feature on Search.

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  Google Announces Rollout of Ads in AI Overviews in India, AI-Powered Ad Solutions

  Google is planning to introduce ads in AI Overviews in India later this year. The Mountain View-based tech giant made the announcement at its Google Marketing Live (GML) India event on Thursday. Alongside, the company also introduced a slew of new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ad tools for brands and enterprises.

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  Google's AI Overviews Hit by EU Antitrust Complaint From Independent Publishers

  Google's AI Overviews are AI-generated summaries that appear above traditional hyperlinks to relevant webpages and are shown to users in more than 100 countries. It began adding advertisements to AI Overviews last May.

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  Google Tests AI-Powered Audio Overviews in Search Results for Certain Queries

  Audio Overviews are now coming to Google Search, thanks to a new Search Labs experiment. The tech giant announced the new feature on Friday, highlighting that select users will see artificial intelligence (AI) audio conversations on certain results pages. Notably, Google recently added Audio Overviews to the Gemini app and website.

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  Alphabet CEO Expects to Keep Hiring Engineers as AI Advances

  Sundar Pichai said his company will keep expanding its engineering ranks at least into 2026. Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, Pichai said he will continue to invest in engineering in the near future.

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  Google Expands AI Overviews to Over 200 Countries in More Than 40 Languages

  Google is expanding its AI Overviews feature to over 200 countries along with broadening support for more languages, the company announced during the keynote of its I/O 2025 developer conference held in California on Tuesday. With this update, the AI-powered search tool will now be available in Arabic, Chinese, Malay, Urdu, and more languages, enab...

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  Google NotebookLM App for Android and iOS Launched, Comes With Audio Overviews Feature

  Google launched the standalone app for NotebookLM on both Android and iOS on Monday. Earlier this month, the Mountain View-based tech giant listed the app on both Google Play and the App Store and allowed users to pre-register for it. Nearly three weeks later, the app is now available on both operating systems and carries several of the core featur...