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Google is sunsetting the Android weather shortcut and replacing it with a Search-driven weather experience: tapping the shortcut now opens a Google Search page with a weather card, forecasts, air quality data, and an AI-generated summary. Pixel devices are largely unaffected; non-Pixel users may lean toward third-party apps, reflecting Google’s shift to centralize everyday info in Search.
Google will display links to cited sources inside its AI Overviews and AI Mode with hover-triggered pop-ups that include descriptions and images, and will show descriptive link icons in responses on desktop and mobile; the change aims to improve content discovery while regulators review AI’s effect on publishers, and Google says publishers can opt out of appearing in AI search features.
Airbnb is piloting an AI-powered search in its app that lets users describe the type of rental and amenities in natural language, and even ask questions about listings. The feature is in a small-scale test as part of a broader shift toward an AI-native experience, with a wider rollout planned later this year, alongside an AI-driven customer support assistant already resolving about a third of inquiries.
Google is embedding Gemini 3 across core apps—Search, Gmail, and Chrome—via Personal Intelligence, making Gemini a proactive assistant with features like AI Overviews in Search, expanded Gmail capabilities, and Chrome’s auto-browse for multi-step tasks. The rollout coincides with upbeat investor signals as Google Cloud revenue grows and Gemini adoption expands to hundreds of millions of users and enterprise licenses, with broader moves into education, retail, and new AI-driven commerce standards.
Google is upgrading Search with Gemini-3 powering AI Overviews by default and adding AI Mode for seamless follow-up questions, turning search into an interactive AI experience rather than a links-first dump of results.
Google upgrades AI Overviews to Gemini 3, embedding AI Mode for a more natural, conversational search experience with improved accuracy, while acknowledging occasional mistakes.
Google has appealed Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling that found it illegally monopolized online search and is asking to pause the court-ordered remedies, including sharing search index data with qualified competitors and allowing rivals to display Google’s results. Mehta rejected a Chrome/Android breakup and instead imposed less aggressive remedies, arguing the mandates could threaten privacy and stifle innovation amid a rapidly evolving AI landscape. The EU is also examining Google's AI-generated search summaries, and Alphabet recently surpassed a $4 trillion market capitalization.
The family of missing Chicago CPS teacher Linda Brown, last seen near her home and the lakefront, continues their search as authorities investigate her disappearance, with new surveillance footage and ongoing community efforts to find her.
Google's AI Overviews appear selectively based on user engagement and usefulness, with the system learning when to show them and expanding search queries under the hood to provide relevant information. The feature is designed to assist with complex questions and is gradually incorporating limited personalization, but overall, it prioritizes consistency across users. Fluctuations in AI Overviews' presence may reflect user behavior rather than algorithm changes.
A new deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has begun in the Indian Ocean, led by Ocean Infinity, aiming to solve the mystery of the vanished aircraft more than a decade after its disappearance, with previous efforts failing to locate the wreckage.
Nearly 12 years after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, a new search using advanced underwater robots has resumed in the Indian Ocean, focusing on a smaller, updated search zone with hopes of finally locating the wreck and providing closure for families and investigators.
The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared in 2014 with 239 people aboard, has resumed after nearly 12 years, utilizing advanced underwater drone technology to locate the wreckage in the Indian Ocean, focusing on a narrowed area of about 5,800 square miles.
A woman named Donna Moonah, 49, went missing in Philadelphia on Christmas Eve, prompting an urgent search and a $5,000 reward for her safe return, with police considering her endangered.
The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is set to resume on December 30, over a decade after its disappearance, with Ocean Infinity conducting a new seabed search in the Indian Ocean under a 'no find, no fee' contract, aiming to locate the wreckage and provide answers to families of the victims.
Over a decade after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, a new search by Ocean Infinity in the Indian Ocean aims to locate the missing aircraft using advanced underwater robotics, despite challenging terrain and incomplete previous data, with hopes of finally solving the mystery.