The threat of potential litigation In making this look a bit like a terms of service agreement, Cloudflare’s goal is explicitly to put legal pressure on Google to change its policy of bundling traditional search crawlers and AI Overviews. “Make no mistake, the legal team at Google is looking at this saying, ‘Huh, that’s now something that we have to …
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After introducing in July, NotebookLM is giving Video Overviews a big upgrade with the help of Google’s Nano Banana image editing and generation model (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image). You can now choose from one of two Video Overview formats: Brief: A bite-sized overview to help you quickly grasp core ideas from your sources Explainer: A structured, comprehensive overview that connects …
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Chrome on Android is now getting NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature. The feature instantly turns content on any webpage into an interactive podcast. It was previously available in the experimental version of Chrome, but now seems to be rolling out widely. Chrome for Android is now getting a new AI-powered upgrade for its Read …
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Disclosure: Penske Media Corporation is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company. Penske Media Corporation, the publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, has become the first major American media company to sue Google over its AI summaries. The company claims that the AI Overviews that often appear at the top of search results leave users with …
Read More »Rolling Stone, Billboard owner Penske sues Google over AI overviews Reuters Penske Media sues Google over AI search overviews Axios Publishers fear AI summaries are hitting online traffic BBC ‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model The Guardian AI search drives less than 1% of referrals, organic still dominates: Data Search Engine Land Source link
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The Ohio State Buckeyes host the Texas Longhorns Saturday at the Horseshoe in Columbus, Ohio is one of the most highly anticipated openers to a college football season in years. Ohio State defeated Texas in the college football playoff last season enroute to the national title. The rematch finds Texas ranked No. 1 in every preseason poll with Ohio State …
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In the year 2025, it seems we’re hearing frequent warnings about impending doom via artificial intelligence. And that’s not without some merit: Heck, AI is causing job loss and filling our social feeds with fairly convincing slop. But sometimes, the world sends a reminder that our AI tools are a far cry from Schwarzeneggerian domination. For instance, Google’s much-maligned AI …
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Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overviews, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed. Last month, NotebookLM launched Video Overviews so users could turn their notes, PDFs, and images into video presentations. Previously only available in English, this update …
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Google’s Liz Reid, in response to all the third-party studies, wrote on the Google blog, “Overall, total organic click volume from Google Search to websites has been relatively stable year-over-year.” There was no specific data shared, Google did not offer up Search Console data, Google didn’t show a chart – they just wrote clicks are “relatively stable.” I do have …
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Following the announcement last week, Google has finished rolling out Video Overviews and a redesign of the Studio interface to all NotebookLM users. Video Overviews use your sources to essentially create a slide deck accompanied by narration. NotebookLM will use “images, diagrams, quotes and numbers from your documents” in the presentation. You can have it focus on certain topics, cater …
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