Need a research assistant to help you distill dense, complex material? AI-powered Illuminate transforms published papers into audio discussions.

As AI-powered search options grow and get used more often, the change may have stark effects on the search ad industry, and change how millions of businesses market themselves.

The AI industry will likely create even more disruption in 2025.  And as lawsuits mount, the industry itself will likely have a chaotic year.

Contractors working on Google Gemini are comparing its responses to Claude's, according to internal correspondence seen by TechCrunch.

Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.

Whisk is a “creative tool” for quick inspiration, Google said in a blog post, as opposed to a “traditional image editor.” In essence, Whisk is intended as a fun AI feature, rather than as something that’s supposed to be refined professional work.

Fast Company fed 188 reports looking ahead to 2025 from a variety of industries into NotebookLM (because the tool has a limit of 50 sources per notebook, we were forced to divide it into four separate ones), then asked the chatbot to help pick out patterns in the information. What follows is a human-summarized version of AI’s analysis.

G oogle has expanded its AI-organized search results for local queries on restaurants. As a reminder, Google announced AI-organized search results back at Google I/O in May, then

A new AI ‘reasoning’ model called “Gemini” allows users to view the AI’s thought process as it answers questions.

Google is planning to add a new “AI Mode” to its search engine, according to a report from The Information. The company will reportedly display an option to switch to AI Mode from the top of the results page, allowing you to access an interface similar to its Gemini AI chatbot.

Google Search might get a Gemini-based AI Mode soon that lets you perform online searches similar to ChatGPT Search.

The event is also said to detail new Galaxy AI features for the Galaxy S25 series, including a feature that “provides personalized clothing suggestions and transport information.”