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Google announced two new ad formats for AI Mode during Google Marketing Live: Conversational Discovery ads and Highlighted Answers. Both formats are powered by Gemini and designed to place ads more directly inside AI-generated responses and recommendation flows. According to Google, the formats will include an independent AI explainer that synthesizes information about a product […]
Google released a report detailing how people use AI Mode in the U.S., drawing on internal Search data and Google Trends to map search behavior one year after launch. The report, published alongside Google I/O 2026 announcements, said that AI Mode has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users globally. Queries have more than doubled every […]
“There is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.” That’s Dario Amodei in January, writing about the technology his company sells. Compare with what’s on your LinkedIn timeline this week. Here’s the script: Schema markup ensures AI engines parse your content. The first sentence […]
Google upgraded AI Mode with Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new default model and redesigned the Search box with AI capabilities, the company announced at I/O. The changes also include search agents and an international expansion of Personal Intelligence. Liz Reid, VP and Head of Search, said AI Mode has passed one billion monthly users. […]
Google is expanding its SynthID verification tools to Search today, with Chrome support planned over the coming weeks. Users will be able to check the origin of images through Search features such as Lens, AI Mode, and Circle to Search. The company is also launching an AI Content Detection API on Google Cloud, initially available […]
YouTube brought several AI-focused updates to Google I/O this year, but two announcements stood out more than the others. The platform is introducing a new conversational discovery experience called “Ask YouTube” alongside expanded AI video remixing powered by Gemini Omni. Together, the updates suggest YouTube is putting more focus on helping users discover content through […]
Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol is the first production blueprint for what every website (ecommerce or not) will eventually need to expose to AI agents: discoverable actions, predictable outcomes, persistent sessions, and explicit agent policies. UCP was released as infrastructure for Google Merchant Center retailers. But the more important story is the architecture underneath it. UCP […]
On May 6, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei walked out onto a stage at his company’s developer conference in San Francisco and said something you almost never hear from a tech CEO: Growth is the problem. Anthropic had planned for a 10-fold expansion. What it got was 80-fold growth in Q1, on an annualized basis. […]
Schema markup had a rough week. Google ended FAQ rich results. Four days later, Ahrefs published a report, finding that adding JSON-LD didn’t produce a clear citation lift across Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, or ChatGPT. These developments weaken two common pitches for schema markup: increased SERP visibility and potential AI citation gains. This article […]
Google published a new documentation page to help websites optimize for generative AI features in Search, including AI Overviews and AI Mode. The page, “Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search,” expands Google’s prior AI features documentation published in 2025. The earlier page explains how AI features work, how inclusion is controlled, […]