Former Google employees have had a profound influence on AI. They have co-founded and led 14 of the top 50 AI startups, and have raised about $14.7 billion, accounting for nearly 28% of the funding for the top AI startups and have a combined valuation of $71.60 billion.

A new Google AI Mode code could be behind the latest release of its Gemini Live app that allows users to have an actual conversation with AI in a multimodal experience. The spoiler -- you must give away lots of data.

The top 10,000 query terms drove 46% of all searches and 148 of those made up nearly 15% of total volume for queries with at least 100 searches during a 21-month period, according to findings released this week.

As marketers chase "the next big thing" heading into 2025, this year's biggest opportunities will be strategic moves that add up to sustainable impacts, rather than big leaps.

Twelve Labs, a GAI startup working with AWS, developed technology that makes searching videos as easy as seaching text. Searches include actions, objects, and background sounds. It can search through videos, classify scenes, summarize, and split video clips into chapters.

Tech support scammers last month targeted eBay customers through fraudulent Google ads. Malwarebytes Labs identified multiple sponsored results created from at least four different advertiser accounts.

Mobile shopping hit highs on Thanksgiving Day at 59.5% of all online sales - representing $3.6 billion in online spending via mobile, up 10.5% year-over-year, according to data released Friday.

Twenty-eight percent of U.S. consumers say they always look at online user reviews before a purchase, and another 28% do so often. Reviews are not taken lightly, a Reviews.org report finds.

The changes are intended to meet Digital Markets Act requirements, but this means some of the products and features will no longer work as they formerly did.

AI Intelligence, Apple's AI engine and agents would enable Apple to leave behind its Google Search partnership and increase success of first-party data targeting across its devices.