Google plans to upgrade its search even more in 2025 with a new AI mode feature, currently being tested by employees.

Google is preparing to launch an AI Mode in Google Search to make searching the web easier for certain types of questions.

According to 9to5Google, which saw an internal company email, Google employees have been invited to test out AI Mode for Search. A screenshot published by the outlet shows the tool appearing like a supercharged version of AI Overviews combined with the Gemini chatbot interface, all geared toward asking more open-ended questions.

In pushing Chrome users to the Edge, Microsoft stresses the security and privacy of Edge, which it says is better than Chrome. Google clearly disagrees. Now Microsoft has forced a change of browser for Chrome users, with a surprising result.

Having an incognito mode is important in browsers like Chrome. Not only does it help you browse privately without leaving a trail of the websites you have visited, but it also provides a convenient way to access your preferred websites without having to clear your browsing history—a multi-step process that consumes time.

Microsoft and Google have collaborated to improve privacy in Chrome's Incognito mode on Windows 10 and 11. The update was implemented in Q3 2024 and prevents clipboard content copied during private browsing sessions from being saved in Windows' clipboard history or synced via Cloud Clipboard.

Google appears to have faked AI output in a commercial set to run during the Super Bowl. The ad shows a business owner using Gemini to write a website description, but the text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business’s website since at least August 2020,

Google’s Super Bowl ad features a Wisconsin cheesemaker who uses Google’s Gemini AI tool to write cheese descriptions.

A screenshot of the AI chatbot in the ad claimed Gouda accounted for 50-60% of global cheese consumption. Was it funded by Big Gouda, or was it just an AI hallucination?