Google unveils its biggest Search upgrade in 25 years at I/O, introducing an expanded AI-powered input field accepting text, images, videos, and files, plus new agentic features rolling out globally this summer across nearly 200 countries and 98 languages.
AI search startup Exa Labs surges to a $2.2 billion valuation after raising $250 million backed by Andreessen Horowitz, as a fierce wave of well-funded rivals — including Parag Agrawal's Parallel Web Systems — race to exploit cracks in Google's and ChatGPT's dominance of the rapidly evolving search market.
Sports Illustrated deletes an entire writer's archive after AI plagiarism accusations from rival outlet Sportico, raising alarm that AI-generated content could outrank original journalism in search results and replace legitimate reporting across the industry.
Google Search undergoes its biggest redesign in 25 years, now powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, featuring AI agents that monitor the web, book reservations on users' behalf, and generate custom interactive apps in real time, with Personal Intelligence expanding to nearly 200 countries across 98 languages for free.
Google is reinventing its 25-year-old search box with a sweeping AI-powered overhaul now live worldwide, merging AI Overviews and AI Mode into one seamless interface that accepts text, images, videos, and PDFs — and it's already surpassing one billion monthly users with queries doubling every quarter.
Brands are racing to adapt as consumers ditch traditional search engines for AI tools like ChatGPT, forcing marketers to master new disciplines like generative engine optimization while balancing AI-powered speed with the human judgment needed to avoid costly brand missteps.
Netflix is testing an AI-powered voice search feature that lets users find content using mood-based prompts like 'I need a good cry,' bypassing third-party voice assistants and signaling a bold move toward smarter, more personalized streaming experiences.
Perplexity launches a massive enterprise expansion of its AI agent platform at Ask NYC, introducing 50+ prebuilt workflows, Databricks and Snowflake integrations, financial data connections via Morningstar and PitchBook, and a 1Password integration — all while claiming $2.8 billion in labor-equivalent work completed since launch.
GPT-5-powered agentic search systems are crushing baseline scores with an NDCG of 0.453 versus a 0.289 BM25 baseline on Amazon ESCI, but hit a hard wall when facing knowledge-gap tasks where LLMs cannot evaluate information they don't already know.
Google launches 'Ask YouTube,' an AI-powered conversational search feature exclusively for US YouTube Premium subscribers that combines video recommendations, Shorts, and AI-generated text summaries into structured, topic-organized results pages.