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OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decision came within hours of widespread social media …

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Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines

Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines

Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines. The company says this was a short-lived experiment that ultimately “introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.” The original story follows. It’s a …

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OpenAI Removes ChatGPT Feature Over Search Engine Privacy Concerns

OpenAI Removes ChatGPT Feature Over Search Engine Privacy Concerns

OpenAI quickly rolled back a new feature that allowed users to make private conversations with ChatGPT “discoverable” after the launch was marred by concerns of accidental oversharing. “We just removed a feature from @ChatGPTapp that allowed users to make their conversations discoverable by search engines, such as Google,” Dane Stuckey, OpenAI’s chief information security officer, announced via social media post …

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Google AI Mode With Upload Files, Canvas Planner & Search While Browsing

Google AI Mode With Upload Files, Canvas Planner & Search While Browsing

Google AI Mode added the ability to upload PDFs and images for your queries. Google also added a Canvas feature to help you plan things while you are asking AI Mode questions. Finally, Google upgraded Search while browsing to add in AI Mode. This is all part of the announcements Google recently made, including Search Live with video. (1) Upload …

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Google AI Mode adding Search Live video, Canvas, & PDF upload

Google AI Mode adding Search Live video, Canvas, & PDF upload

After adding Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is updating AI Mode with four big features across Search Live (video with Google Lens access), Canvas, and more. In addition to text, you will soon be able to upload images and PDF files to AI Mode on the web. The former is already available on mobile, while the latter will let you “ask …

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Google Search rolling out AI Mode to the UK

Google Search rolling out AI Mode to the UK

Following the US and India (earlier this month), Google Search is now launching AI Mode in the UK. Compared to AI Overviews at the top of a Search results page, AI Mode offers a more Gemini app/chatbot-like experience. Prompts (with images supported) can have multiple parts, with Google finding that questions are often “two or three times the length of …

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Google launches new AI search feature in UK

Google launches new AI search feature in UK

Getty Images Google is rolling out a new tool in the UK that will generate results using artificial intelligence (AI), in a significant shake-up to the world’s most popular search engine. Instead of a list of search results showing links to other websites in blue type, people who choose “AI Mode” will be given an answer written in a conversational …

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Google rolls out AI Mode shortcut for Search widget on Android

Google rolls out AI Mode shortcut for Search widget on Android

Following the Pixel Launcher shortcut, you can now add AI Mode to the Google Search homescreen widget on any Android device. Like with a regular search, this lets you immediately enter a prompt into the fullscreen AI Mode screen. Widget access first appeared in April for some users of the Google app beta. It’s gone through a few cycles of …

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