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AI Overviews now appear on 14% of shopping queries in Google Search — up 5.6x in four months. New data from 20.9 million SERPs shows eCommerce is no longer insulated from AI's impact on organic clicks.

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AI Overviews Appear On 14% Of Shopping Queries in Google

ECommerce sites had a brief window of immunity from AI Overviews. That window has closed.

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AI scientist and investor Rana el Kaliouby says AI is a boys' club — and that without intervention, the wealth gap between men and women will widen significantly. Here's the argument and why it deserves attention.

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AI Is Creating Enormous Wealth, But Not For Women

The economic opportunity inside AI is real. So is the question of who it's flowing to.

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Meta is replacing third-party content moderators with advanced AI systems that it says outperform human review. The timing, the performance claims, and the broader context all warrant a close look.

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Meta Is Handing Content Enforcement to AI

The humans reviewing graphic content at Meta are being replaced — at least partially — by systems that Meta says do the job better.

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Nothing's Carl Pei says apps are going away and the smartphone interface hasn't meaningfully changed in 20 years. At SXSW, he laid out what comes next — and why it matters for anyone whose business lives inside an app.

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Is the App Model Going to be Replaced by AI?

The smartphone interface is approximately 20 years old. Carl Pei thinks that's a problem nobody is talking about loudly enough.

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Google's Groundsource methodology used Gemini to analyze decades of public reports and identified 2.6 million historical flood events across 150 countries. The result is a flash flood prediction model that didn't exist before — because the data didn't exist before.

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Google Activates AI to Predict Natural Disasters

Predicting a disaster requires data about past disasters. For urban flash floods, that data largely didn't exist — which meant the models couldn't be...

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Google's Universal Commerce Protocol just added cart management, real-time catalog access, and loyalty linking. The open standard for AI-driven shopping is quietly becoming the infrastructure layer for agentic commerce.

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Google Updates Agentic AI Shopping Protocol

The storefront is moving. The infrastructure beneath it is moving faster.

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A Stanford study conducted inside Google found that most people adopt AI wrong. The ones who got it right weren't better at prompting — they thought like product managers.

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Stanford Study: Most People are Using AI Wrong

The problem with AI adoption isn't enthusiasm. It's method.

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Google hosted a global summit on teen digital safety and announced a $20 million wellbeing initiative. The conversation is shifting from restriction to design — and AI is now central to both the problem and the response.

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Google Is Rethinking Teen and AI Safety Online

The debate about young people and the internet has been dominated by one argument: keep them off it, or at least limit how much of it they can...

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Google Maps just got its biggest navigation update in over a decade. Gemini is now answering complex real-world questions and rendering your drive in 3D. Here's what changed and why it matters.

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Google Maps Gets Reimagined With Gemini

For twenty years, Maps told you how to get somewhere. Now it's trying to tell you what to do when you get there.

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The UK government reversed course on AI copyright policy after major artist backlash. Nobody got what they wanted — and the uncertainty left behind may be the most consequential outcome of all.

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The UK Reverses Course on AI Copyright

Elton John called it theft. The government called it a consultation. On Wednesday, it called it unresolved.

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Google's Personal Intelligence connects your Gmail, Photos, and purchase history to deliver hyper-personalized AI responses. The convenience is real. So is the data picture behind it.

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Google's Personal Intelligence Delivers, Well, Hyper-Personalization

The most personal assistant you've ever had is also the one that's read all your email.

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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