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Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join Open AI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character. AI deal and was Gemini co-lead
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The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties
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Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms
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Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its Search Console with some UK domain owners, letting them decide whether their sites appear in AI search results
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Microsoft releases Web IQ, a search service for AI agents that is powered by Bing, currently used by Copilot, Chat GPT, and other platforms
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Hands-on with Gemini Spark beta rolling out to AI Ultra subs: planned a birthday party from emails and calendar, but called a live-in boyfriend a "close friend
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US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS. 2, a 33 B-A3 B-parameter Mo E model, and Laguna M. 1, a proprietary 225 B-A23 B-parameter Mo E model
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Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (69+ words) Aisha Malik / Tech Crunch: Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the…...
Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (44+ words) Aisha Malik / Tech Crunch: Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1: 50 PM ET,…...
Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33. 7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. GPT-5. 2's 34. 5%
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (79+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Ivan Mehta / Tech Crunch: Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33. 7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. GPT-5. 2's 34. 5%" " Google today released its fast and cheap Gemini…...