Overview

• Google’s AI Mode, powered by a customized Gemini 2.5, is now available in Spanish across Mexico and Hispanoamérica with a new results tab on web and in the Google app.
• The experience accepts text, voice and images and uses Google’s query fan-out technique to break down complex questions, returning conversational answers with source links.
• Gemini image tools are fueling viral Polaroid-style photos that place users with celebrities or deceased relatives, enabled by simple, free prompts on web or mobile.
• Privacy experts warn that uploading photos to AI services often grants broad, sometimes permanent licenses and retains metadata like location and device details, creating legal and security risks.
• Spotify announced a stricter anti-impersonation policy for AI voice clones, a music spam filter rolling out this fall, and support for DDEX standards to disclose AI use in track credits.