Over the weekend, Google released a tiny memo on its Ad & Commerce Blog, announcing a new type of sponsored content marketers can purchase, the Washington Post observed. This new type of ad will be featured in Google’s “AI mode” — the AI chatbot which users can open on the side of a Google search — as well as the company’s Gemini chatbot.

Google’s Gemini AI is getting what could prove to be a very big upgrade: To help answers from Gemini be more personalized, the company is going to let you connect the chatbot to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and your YouTube history to provide what Google is calling “Personal Intelligence.”

Google Personal Intelligence can access information you've stored in Gmail, Photos, and YouTube to provide more complete, comprehensive answers. But is that something you're willing to provide?

Several new Gmail features are driven by AI, which includes options to have the AI read your emails and offer suggestions.

OpenAI has quietly rolled out a new translation tool, ChatGPT Translate, positioning its flagship AI against Google Translate in a battle for dominance in the global language services market. The laun

Product purchases can be made directly in chat now, with both Google Pay and PayPal supported as payment methods.

Google’s announcement marks the first major advertising experiment within AI search, as tech companies race to monetize their shopping-focused tools.

Google turned up the heat in the AI shopping wars this weekend, announcing plans to turn Gemini into a merchant and launching an open-source standard built together with major retailers including Shopify,

Google has quietly removed AI Overviews on certain health queries after a report claimed they were inaccurate and potentially dangerous.

One feature Gmail's launching is AI Overviews, which summarize information in your inbox, apparently building on the already-launched autogenerated email summaries. AI Overview can also be able to answer questions about what's in your inbox, but this feature will only be available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.