Google is rolling out UCP, Universal Commerce Protocol, powered checkout in AI Mode. This launched as part of the Google Ads news from yesterday, and you can now see it in AI Mode for products from ...

Marriott is the first major hotel to publicly discuss its work with Google on its upcoming agentic AI travel booking tool. But it raises more questions than answers — especially whether AI Mode offers ...

A new report reveals Google Translate’s Advanced mode can be tricked into acting like a chatbot. By embedding instructions in text, users trigger conversational replies instead of translations. This ...

When the Olympics roll around every four years, fans get exposed to obscure sports and unfamiliar phrases. More than two decades ago when Kate Johnson was a competitive rower for the U.S. national ...

In Davos last week, I had the honor of moderating a dinner discussion hosted by Cognizant and Newsweek which convened CEOs, CTOs, chief AI Officers and transformation executives from sectors ranging ...

AI computing power is projected to increase 100-fold in the next five years. AMD is launching a new product to capture demand for more powerful computing systems. Analysts expect AMD's annual revenue ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-supported mammography identifies more cancers during screening and reduces the rate of breast cancer diagnosis by 12% in the years following, finds the first randomized ...

Google’s January 2026 Search update marks a pivotal—and controversial—shift in how we interact with the web. With the introduction of Gemini 3 and the new “AI Mode,” Google is moving away from the ...

Google is tightening the connection between AI Overviews and AI Mode in Google Search. Starting now, you can ask a follow-up right from an AI Overview and keep the same context as the conversation ...

It can be hard sometimes to keep up with the deluge of generative AI in Google products. Even if you try to avoid it all, there are some features that still manage to get in your face. Case in point: ...

AI Mode is in your AI Overviews now on Google Search. On Tuesday, Google announced that it was rolling out a new feature to Google Search on mobile that adds the ability for users to ask follow-up ...

An update to AI Overviews lets users move right into an AI Mode “conversation” to ask follow-up questions. Gemini 3 now powers AI Overview responses. These changes are rolling out starting today.