Google Overhauls Its Search with AI Mode

Search has been Google’s biggest revenue generator ever since the company’s launch and continued to remain its monopoly. But then OpenAI launched ChatGPT and brought in the generative artificial intelligence (AI) era. Google responded with its own AI products like Gemini, but the search engine had not been integrated because you don’t touch the goose that lays the golden eggs without due consideration. Now, that point has finally reached.
Alphabet’s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai announced on May 20 at Google I/O 2025, the company’s annual developer conference, that Search would now have AI woven into it. He said, “For those who want an end-to-end AI Search experience, we’re introducing an all-new AI Mode. It’s a total reimagining of Search. With more advanced reasoning, you can ask AI Mode longer and more complex queries.”

It has already been rolled out in the US and will soon be available in the rest of the world. There were also other AI related announcements made at the event. Like a 3D video conferencing platform called Beam, an app that makes short videos based on text prompts and Google’s AI assistant becoming able to perform tasks like making dinner reservations or buying tickets, making it agentic.

Foldable Laptop

You have heard of foldable phones and tablets, but Huawei has now come out with what it pegs as a foldable laptop. It looks like a large tablet, but the screen can be folded to turn it into a regular computer, using cutting edge hinges. Weighing at 1.16kg, it is 7.3mm thick. It is priced at around US$3,300 for the base 1TB model.

Robotaxi Trial

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that by June end, trials would begin for the company’s robotaxis. The design had been unveiled last year, and the two-seater vehicles will be entirely autonomous without a driver. Tesla plans to roll out the tests in Austin, Texas, beginning with 10 vehicles in different parts of the city. Within a few months, Musk expects a thousand of them to be on the roads.

Siri Alternatives

Something is changing in the walled garden of Apple as evident in a Bloomberg report, quoting sources inside the company, that it might no longer insist on its voice assistant Siri being the only one in iPhones. Other AI bots like ChatGPT and Gemini could also be made available. The reason is to remain in compliance with regulations of the European Union.

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