Google is turning its familiar search box into a multimodal AI interface, merging AI Overviews with AI Mode and changing how users search the web.

German regulators ruled Google AI Overviews and Perplexity are content providers under media law, raising new compliance risks for AI search.

A court found Google liable for misleading AI Overview results in its search engine, raising accountability questions for AI-generated content.

The Verge reports Google AI Overviews can respond like chatbots to search terms such as disregard or skip.

Google is rolling out AI Overviews to Gmail for workplace users, offering instant summaries pulled from across multiple emails.

Guardian investigation reveals Google fails to display safety warnings when users first see AI-generated medical advice in search results.

Google employees begin testing AI Mode for Search, a supercharged AI-powered feature designed for exploratory questions and complex reasoning tasks.

Google is now using its powerful Gemini 3 Pro model to generate AI Overviews for more complex search queries, aiming to provide more comprehensive and intelligent answers.