Google has updated its AI Mode in Search to use Gemini 3.8 Flash, replacing Gemini 3.7 Flash for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, with improvements in software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning.
Google has confirmed that for some queries, AI Overviews may dynamically expand to their full state, replacing the snippet with a full detailed response and pushing organic search results further down the page.
OpenAI has acknowledged that its ChatGPT fetch bot may not respect the Robots.txt protocol, allowing it to access content that webmasters have explicitly disallowed.
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash, its latest AI model, to Google Search for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. The model is designed to enhance coding and agent capabilities within the search platform.
Nearly 300 French newspapers have filed a complaint with France’s competition authority, accusing Google of violating a compensation agreement by launching AI-generated search summaries without their consent, further reducing traffic to their websites.