Browsing: Generative AI

Google is updating how links will be presented in both AI Mode and AI Overviews. The search engine has announced five changes. First, it will display inline links more frequently higher up in response listings. Second, it plans to start testing a section at the top of certain responses with links to official sites about…

Pengfei Tian, Maxwell L Bileschi, Zoi Tsangalidou, Sukhdeep Singh and Lucy. J. Colwell

The ranked results page stops being Google’s default first response for most queries somewhere between 2028 and 2030, starting in the U.S., with the UK and EU following a year or more behind. That is my forecast, not a finding, and the rest of this piece separates the two as carefully as I can. By…

Smaller AI models may soon be able to spread autonomously among connected devices in the home — such as smart ovens and Android TV boxes, AI company Anthropic has warned.

Harness’s LLMScanBench Q3 2026 found that large language model (LLM) security scanners can return different results on unchanged code, and Harness lets customers configure an LLM scan to block a build. Harness is competing for the decision about what ships to production, and its benchmark defines what it must show before an AI scan can…

Google Ads is introducing new controls that let advertisers prioritize channels and limit how much of their campaign budgets can be spent across Google-owned inventory and partner networks.

We can debate about the rights and (broadly) wrongs of last-click attribution until the cows come home, but SEO has been the money channel. The channel the execs have leapt at.

Google’s John Mueller recently discussed how Google processes PDFs for ranking purposes, how it indexes them for use in AI Mode and regular search, and why it is able to use links in PDFs the same as it does for regular HTML web pages.

Hyundai Motor India will launch the Hyundai Bayon on October 26, 2026, with a generative AI-powered voice assistant featuring intelligence from Perplexity and voice AI technology from SoundHound AI. The SUV will also get a dual-screen digital cockpit, NVIDIA-accelerated connected car technology, over-the-air software updates and more than 70 Hyundai Bluelink connected features.

IN these fast-moving times, there’s no room for complacency. Just last week, the Prime Minister was in Berlin, hailing a new partnership between the UK and Germany to counter sabotage and cyber-attacks amid growing concern about “hybrid attacks” from Russia combining military and non-military methods.