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  YouTube Introduces AI-Powered Search Results Carousel, Shows a Snapshot of Suggested Videos

  YouTube is adding a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature to its platform. On Thursday, the video streaming giant announced Search Results Carousel, which will show up when users search certain keywords. The new carousel will feature suggested videos in a new layout as well as a text description of the videos to help users learn more about them ...

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  UK May Compel Google to Change Search Rankings, Offer Alternatives

  UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is proposing to designate Alphabet-owned Google with "strategic market status", it said on Tuesday, giving it more power to intervene in search services to increase innovation and economic growth. The CMA aims to use its expanded power to rein in the power of tech giants such as Google, Apple, Meta and M...

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  Google Expands AI Mode in Search to India, Adds Support for Voice and Image Inputs

  Google is now expanding AI Mode in Google Search to India, making it the feature’s first international expansion. The Mountain View-based tech giant first unveiled the artificial intelligence (AI)-based search experience in March to select users in the US, and it was expanded to all US-based users in May at the Google I/O.

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  Apple Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Perplexity AI to Strengthen Its Artificial Intelligence Efforts

  Apple executives have reportedly discussed the possibility of purchasing Perplexity to alleviate its AI woes. As per the report, the Cupertino-based tech giant has held internal discussions about the acquisition, and it has been weighed by the head of acquisitions and mergers, Adrian Perica. If such a deal goes ahead, the iPhone maker might use the...

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  Google Offers to Tweak Search Results to Promote Rivals, Stave Off EU Antitrust Fine

  Google is looking to tweak its search results to better highlight rival services, aiming to avoid a hefty EU antitrust fine. This move follows charges from the European Commission accusing the tech giant of violating the Digital Markets Act by prioritising its own services like Google Shopping, Hotels, and Flights on its Search browser.

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  Google App Gets Gemini-Powered Search Live Feature in AI Mode With Voice Input Support

  Google on Wednesday rolled out Search Live in AI Mode as part of a small experiment in the US. This feature lets users have back-and-forth conversations in real-time in Search, similar to Gemini Live but in the Google app. It was first announced during the Mountain View-based tech giant’s I/O 2025 keynote session in May as an extension to the AI ...

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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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  Google, Scale AI's Largest Customer, Said to Plan Split After Meta Deal

  Google plans to sever ties with AI data-labeling startup Scale AI after rival Meta acquired a 49% stake. Reuters' sources reveal Google, Scale's largest customer, had projected $200 million in payments this year for crucial human-labeled training data, vital for developing models like Gemini. The search giant is reportedly already in discussions wi...

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  Google Adds 'Black Ribbon' On Homepage In Memory Of Ahmedabad Plane Crash Victims

  Internet giant Google mourned the loss of lives in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad with an image of a black ribbon pinned prominently on the homepage of its search engine.

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  Google Search’s AI Mode Is Getting an Interactive Data Visualisation Feature

  Google added a new feature to AI Mode on Friday, the artificial intelligence (AI) search experience within Google Search. The new feature can create interactive graphs and charts by intelligently visualising data to help users easily understand data patterns. The Mountain View-based tech giant said the feature can be particularly useful when analys...

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  Europa Could Briefly Sustain Life When the Sun Becomes a Red Giant Star, Scientists Say

  Scientists at Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute propose that Jupiter’s moon Europa could host life for up to 200 million years during the sun’s red giant phase. While Earth would be incinerated, Europa’s subsurface oceans might temporarily support microbial life, offering a final refuge in the solar system and expanding the search for biosigna...

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  Google, DOJ to Make Final Push in US Search Antitrust Case

  Google and US antitrust enforcers will make their final arguments on whether the tech giant should be forced to sell its Chrome browser. If the judge does require Google to sell off Chrome, OpenAI would be interested in buying it, Nick Turley, OpenAI's product head for ChatGPT, said at the trial.

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  News Media Alliance Issues Statement on Google’s AI Mode, Calls It ‘Definition of Theft’

  Google’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search experience, AI Mode, has received a critical statement from the News/Media Alliance. On Wednesday, the US-based non-profit trade association issued an official statement criticising AI Mode, and called it “the definition of theft.” This came just a day after the Mountain View-based tech gia...

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  Google Said to Face DOJ Antitrust Probe Over Character.AI Deal

  The DoJ is investigating if Google violated antitrust law in its agreement with Character.AI. Google last year signed a licensing deal with Character.AI that granted the search engine giant a non-exclusive license to the chatbot maker's large language model technology.

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  Google I/O 2025: AI Mode in Search Gets Agentic Capabilities and a Shopping Experience

  Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) feature in Search, AI Mode, is now getting multiple new capabilities. Announced at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant is now making the AI-powered end-to-end search experience more capable and useful. The mode is getting new features such as a reasoning mode, Live Search, ag...