Technology companies have been “running real-time, unregulated product testing on Australians” for too long, communications minister says. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia The ...

Social media platforms could be forced to give users in Australia an option to turn off “powerful” algorithms under draft laws to be unveiled by the government this week, Communications Minister Anika ...

Most students begin their college search on Google. A quick query of “colleges” returns a mix of AI summaries, sponsored results from for-profit institutions, organic results from public and nonprofit ...

We’re kickstarting a brand new series here at SEW, where we will do our best to watch and report in search engines’ updates. As you are probably aware, not all of them are announced, only the bigger ...

The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public. What happens between you and an AI chatbot does not ...

Phoenix A* may be one of the most massive black holes ever found, weighing tens of billions of Suns. Its scale, distance, and mysterious growth challenge what scientists understand about how the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - MAY 19: Google Vice President of Search Liz Reid walks on stage during the keynote address at Google I/O on May 19, 2026 in Mountain View, California. The two day ...

Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, using Meta AI to surface answers from public posts across Groups, Reels, and Marketplace listings. Meta has launched AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

Sgr A*, the four-million-solar-mass black hole anchoring the Milky Way 26,000 light-years from Earth, has been producing a persistent outflow of hot gas for at least 20,000 years — and astronomers ...

I’m not the biggest AI critic in the world, but even I’ll admit it: I don’t always want Google summarizing the internet for me. Honestly, I wish I could turn off AI Overviews. I also don’t want to be ...

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: This week’s updates touch rankings, the Search interface, AI Mode behavior, and Google’s guidance around AI agents. Google launched a core update, announced what it called ...