Overview

• The Gemini-powered AI Mode tab begins rolling out to roughly 40 additional regions, including Australia and Ireland, across desktop and mobile apps.
• AI Mode supports text, voice, and camera queries with multimodal reasoning and a query fan-out approach, surfaces source links, and defaults to standard results when confidence is low.
• In India, Google is adding support for Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu, and launching Search Live in English and Hindi for real-time voice-and-camera interactions.
• Google reports more than 100 million users in the US and India have tried AI Mode, AI Overviews are driving over 10% more queries globally, and early testers ask queries two to three times longer than before.
• Experts warn AI summaries can be incorrect, publishers report reduced referral traffic, and reported energy figures for Gemini prompts leave AI Mode’s specific consumption uncertain.