Google Ai Overviews

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  UK Watchdog Wants Google to Let Publishers Opt Out of AI Overviews

  Google’s existing framework for its artificial intelligence (AI) tools in Search has come under fire in the UK. The country’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) proposed multiple measures for the Mountain View-based tech giant to help businesses and users make active and informed choices when using services, such as AI Overviews and AI Mod...

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  Google Is Making the Transition Between AI Overviews and AI Mode Easier

  Google is making two new additions to the artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search. The Mountain View-based tech giant has now added the Gemini 3 AI model to both AI Overviews and AI Mode, making them more performant than before. Additionally, the company is also making it easier to transition from the results page to AI Mode.

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  Google AI Overviews Prefer YouTube Over Medical Sites For Health Queries, Study Finds

  The study's findings have sparked discussions about the need for stricter controls on health information sources.

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  Google’s AI Overviews Giving Incorrect Medical Advice as OpenAI, Anthropic Push for Healthcare: Report

  Google’s AI Overviews has come under scrutiny again after reportedly sharing incorrect medical advice in search results. An investigation found errors in responses about cancer diets, blood test ranges and women’s health, prompting Google to remove some summaries. The incident raises concerns as many users rely on AI Overviews at the top of Sea...

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  Google Brings Gmail to the Gemini Era With AI Overviews Integration and a New Inbox

  Google is rolling out a major set of Gemini-powered artificial intelligence (AI) features in Gmail. Announced on Thursday, the Mountain View-based tech giant said these new capabilities bring Gmail to the “Gemini era.” The most notable is the integration of AI Overviews, which now powers the search experience and email summaries in threads with...

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  Google’s NotebookLM to Reportedly Add a Lecture Mode to Audio Overviews; Teases New British Accent

  Google’s NotebookLM could soon get two new upgrades to its popular Audio Overviews feature. As per the report, the tool could get a new Lecture mode, which is designed to help users gain a thorough understanding of a topic. The new mode is said to be added to the existing four modes and will become the longest audio-generating feature of Audio Ov...

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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...