Google AI Mode And The Future Of Search Monetization: Ads, Prompts, And The Post-Keyword Era
Google AI Mode, which officially launched in May 2025 and is now available to all U.S. users without a waitlist, represents a significant step forward in how we engage with search. Powered by Gemini 2.5, this new interface moves beyond AI Overviews by introducing a persistent, conversational assistant that blends AI-generated insights with traditional search…
Building Event-Driven AI Agents with UAgents and Google Gemini: A Modular Python Implementation Guide
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to use the UAgents framework to build a lightweight, event-driven AI agent architecture on top of Google’s Gemini API. We’ll start by applying nest_asyncio to enable nested event loops, then configure your Gemini API key and instantiate the GenAI client. Next, we’ll define our communication contracts, Question and Answer…
How to Build an Advanced BrightData Web Scraper with Google Gemini for AI-Powered Data Extraction
In this tutorial, we walk you through building an enhanced web scraping tool that leverages BrightData’s powerful proxy network alongside Google’s Gemini API for intelligent data extraction. You’ll see how to structure your Python project, install and import the necessary libraries, and encapsulate scraping logic within a clean, reusable BrightDataScraper class. Whether you’re targeting Amazon…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Discusses Fate Of The Human-Created Web
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, responded to concerns about the impact of recent changes in Search and was repeatedly asked to clarify his position on the web ecosystem and how it fits into what he calls the next chapter of search. Pichai’s responses were given in the context of a recent interview on the Lex Fridman…
The Top New Android 16 Features
Another year, another version of Google’s mobile operating system. Android 16 brings a whole new look (Apple also just announced a redesign in iOS 26), more customization options, some chunky security enhancements, and a few welcome accessibility improvements. Android 16 is rolling out to select devices today—these are the new features that caught our eye….
The DeepSeek R1 update proves it’s an active threat to OpenAI and Google
This week, DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 model on HuggingFace, reigniting the open-source versus closed-source competition. The updated version, called DeekSeek-R1-0528, has 685 billion parameters, an upgrade from January’s version, which had 671 billion. Unlike OpenAI and Google’s models, which are famously closed-source, DeepSeek’s model weights are publicly available. According to the benchmarks,…
Google Pixel 10 rumors: Everything we know (and everything we think we know)
We just got our first unofficial look at the Google Pixel 10 Pro. In May, an X user stumbled across a Pixel commercial shoot in the wild, fueling the online rumor mill and giving us a not-quite-up-close look at the flagship smartphone. It’s hard to believe, but we’re about to experience the tenth year of…
The Privacy-Friendly Tech to Replace Your US-Based Email, Browser, and Search
From your email to your web browsing, it’s highly likely that your daily online life is dominated by a small number of tech giants—namely Google, Microsoft, and Apple. But since Big Tech has been cozying up to the second Trump administration, which has taken an aggressive stance on foreign policy, and Elon Musk’s so-called Department…
Beyond the Demos: What Google I/O 2025 Really Tells Us About the Future of Tech
As per the demo showcased by Google, the AI Mode will be available as a separate option in Google Search. Instead of serving you with a generic AI summary in search results, the new feature will provide a detailed and contextual response. The tool has been made available in select countries at launch, but it…
At Google I/O, Sergey Brin makes surprise appearance — and declares Google will build the first AGI
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More At Google I/O this week, amid the usual parade of dazzling product demos and AI-powered announcements, something unusual happened: Google declared war — quietly — in the race to build artificial general intelligence (AGI). “We fully…