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Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, a search feature that uses Meta AI to generate answers from public posts, Groups, and Reels instead of displaying traditional search results. The feature allows users to ask questions in plain language and receive synthesized responses based on platform discussions.

Google is making AI Mode Pro's interactive visual generation capabilities available to all users for free through summer 2026, coinciding with the FIFA World Cup. The company is also adding real-time match tracking, tactical diagrams, and enhanced Gemini features for soccer fans.

Google has expanded its Ask Gemini in Drive feature to search Gmail, allowing eligible subscribers to query email threads alongside files and folders. The feature requires Google AI Pro, AI Ultra, or Workspace Business/Enterprise subscriptions.

Google is integrating its SynthID AI detection technology into Search and Chrome, starting with Lens, AI Mode, and Circle to Search today. According to Google, SynthID verification tools have been used 50 million times globally since the feature was added to Gemini for checking images, video, and audio.

Google is adding an 'Expert Advice' section to AI Overviews and AI Mode that will display quotes from Reddit, forums, and social media above links to sources. The update also adds creator attribution showing usernames and community names, and will recommend in-depth articles at the end of AI responses.

Google is updating AI Mode and AI Overviews to directly surface quotes from Reddit, forums, and social media as 'Expert Advice' alongside search results. The update includes creator attribution and aims to capture users who manually add 'Reddit' to search queries for human perspectives.

Google rolled out split-screen browsing for AI Mode on Chrome desktop, letting users view webpages alongside conversational search results. The update also adds multi-tab context search across Chrome desktop and mobile.

An independent study by AI startup Oumi found that Google's AI Overviews answered correctly 91% of the time with Gemini 3, up from 85% with Gemini 2, based on 4,326 searches using the SimpleQA benchmark. However, 56% of correct answers in Gemini 3 could not be verified through the linked sources—a significant increase from 37% in Gemini 2—and at Google's scale, a 9% error rate still translates to millions of wrong answers per hour.