Google connected more apps to AI Mode, letting answers act across Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music accounts — another step toward the answer layer as an action layer.
Google's Search Central announced performance reporting for generative-AI search experiences in Search Console, giving sites first-party impression and click data for AI surfaces.
The user-agent string changed alongside the product's rebrand to Gemini Notebook — relevant to anyone managing AI-crawler access in robots.txt, per Search Engine Roundtable.