Alphabet stock drops 0.6% as AI startup Perplexity makes its premium $200-per-month AI browser Comet completely free, directly challenging Google Chrome's dominance with features that summarize webpages and extract key information while promising to combat low-quality online content.
Google launches revolutionary AI-powered visual search that lets users ask conversational questions about products and receive rich visual results, backed by a massive database of over 50 billion product listings from retailers worldwide.
Google unveils AI-powered conversational image search that lets shoppers describe products in natural language like 'barrel jeans that aren't too baggy' and upload reference photos to find similar items, rolling out to US users this week with Gemini 2.5's advanced visual recognition technology.
Google launches Search Live nationwide, enabling users to have voice conversations with AI while sharing real-time camera feeds for instant visual assistance with travel, hobbies, troubleshooting, education, and entertainment needs.
Google rolls out Search Live nationwide, allowing US users to have real-time AI conversations using voice commands and camera through a new 'Live' button in their mobile apps, instantly answering questions while providing relevant web links for tasks like cooking tutorials or device setup.
xAI's new Grok 4 Fast AI model rockets to the top of search leaderboards while slashing operational costs by 47 times compared to competitors like GPT-5 and Claude, offering real-time web and X search capabilities at dramatically reduced pricing of $0.20 per million input tokens.
Revolutionizing web browsing, Gemini, a groundbreaking AI assistant, seamlessly integrates into Chrome, offering intelligent summarization, question answering, and concept clarification based on open tabs, while empowering users with control over activation and activity management.
Chrome introduces Gemini, an AI-powered assistant that helps users understand complex information, work across tabs, find past webpages, and handle tasks like booking haircuts, while AI Mode in the omnibox provides AI-powered answers to complex queries.
Google revamps Discover, enabling users to follow specific publishers and creators, curating a personalized feed with articles, YouTube Shorts, and posts from across the web, aiming to provide more control and diversity in content discovery.
Penske Media Corporation, owner of publications like The Hollywood Reporter and Rolling Stone, sues Google over alleged illegal use of its journalism for AI summaries, claiming reduced traffic in a potentially defining legal battle over AI and compensation.