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Google’s Big Gemini AI Updates: AI Models, Search, Preferred Sources and More From the Week
Google has upgraded Gemini 2.5 text-to-speech models to give developers more control over tone, pacing and multi-speaker output. The company also improved Search and AI Mode with more inline links, clearer attribution and the global rollout of Preferred Sources. Google is testing new partnerships with news publishers as well, offering AI-powered ar...
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Google Faces EU Antitrust Investigation Over AI Overviews, YouTube
The European Commission's second investigation into Google in less than a month underscores growing unease over Big Tech's dominance in new technologies that could shut out rivals, but could escalate tensions with the United States as EU laws adopted in the last few years have become a sore point in relations with Washington.
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Circle to Search Update Adds Spam Detection; Google Brings Urgent Call Notes, New Emoji to Android
Google has announced new Android features. It brings an update to the Phone by Google app that lets users mark a call as urgent. The Circle to Search feature lets users find potential fraud. Google now allow users to leave unwanted group chats in Google Messages. The Expressive Captions feature on Android will now display real-time captions. The up...
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YouTube Music's 2025 Recap Rolling Out With Musical Passport, AI Chat Features
As we are nearing the year-end, YouTube Music has started rolling out the 2025 Recap. It shows personalised insights into the music habits of users. It highlights the total listening time for favourite artists. It also spotlights the top albums and highlights the countries of the most-played artists. This year's recap also includes an AI-powered ch...
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Google’s Big AI Updates: Gemini, DeepMind, NotebookLM News From the Week
Google rolled out a wide set of AI upgrades across its products last week. NotebookLM led with six new features, including custom video overview styles, chat history, image as a source and global flashcards and quizzes. Google Photos added Nano Banana editing, AI templates, an Ask button and expanded Help me edit. Updates also arrived for Messages,...
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Google Drive Gets Popular AI-Powered Podcast-Style Overviews for PDFs
Google has added a new AI-powered feature to Drive that converts long PDF documents into podcast-style Audio Overviews. Part of the Gemini for Google Workspace suite, the tool uses technology from NotebookLM to summarise text-heavy files into short audio discussions. Available on desktop for now, it supports English only and is limited to select Wo...
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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’s Big Gemini AI Updates: AI Models, Search, Preferred Sources and More From the Week
Google has upgraded Gemini 2.5 text-to-speech models to give developers more control over tone, pacing and multi-speaker output. The company also improved Search and AI Mode with more inline links, clearer attribution and the global rollout of Preferred Sources. Google is testing new partnerships with news publishers as well, offering AI-powered ar...
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Google Faces EU Antitrust Investigation Over AI Overviews, YouTube
The European Commission's second investigation into Google in less than a month underscores growing unease over Big Tech's dominance in new technologies that could shut out rivals, but could escalate tensions with the United States as EU laws adopted in the last few years have become a sore point in relations with Washington.
-
Circle to Search Update Adds Spam Detection; Google Brings Urgent Call Notes, New Emoji to Android
Google has announced new Android features. It brings an update to the Phone by Google app that lets users mark a call as urgent. The Circle to Search feature lets users find potential fraud. Google now allow users to leave unwanted group chats in Google Messages. The Expressive Captions feature on Android will now display real-time captions. The up...
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YouTube Music's 2025 Recap Rolling Out With Musical Passport, AI Chat Features
As we are nearing the year-end, YouTube Music has started rolling out the 2025 Recap. It shows personalised insights into the music habits of users. It highlights the total listening time for favourite artists. It also spotlights the top albums and highlights the countries of the most-played artists. This year's recap also includes an AI-powered ch...
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Google’s Big AI Updates: Gemini, DeepMind, NotebookLM News From the Week
Google rolled out a wide set of AI upgrades across its products last week. NotebookLM led with six new features, including custom video overview styles, chat history, image as a source and global flashcards and quizzes. Google Photos added Nano Banana editing, AI templates, an Ask button and expanded Help me edit. Updates also arrived for Messages,...
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Google Drive Gets Popular AI-Powered Podcast-Style Overviews for PDFs
Google has added a new AI-powered feature to Drive that converts long PDF documents into podcast-style Audio Overviews. Part of the Gemini for Google Workspace suite, the tool uses technology from NotebookLM to summarise text-heavy files into short audio discussions. Available on desktop for now, it supports English only and is limited to select Wo...
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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.
