Sure, they tell you to eat rocks and put glue on your pizza, but Google says AI Overviews are a smash, and it’s expanding the feature to a bunch of new countries and languages. They’re now available in more than 200 countries and more than 40 languages, Google says — and they’re starting to appear on more and more queries, too.
AI Overviews were just the start — Google is already preparing for a world where all search is AI search.
In addition to touting Gemini 2.5 as a coding tool, Google just released a public beta for Jules, a “coding agent” that can work in the background fixing bugs and writing new features in your codebase. It’s a lot like what you can do with GitHub Copilot. Jules can even make an audio summary of its changes — so, a podcast about code commits? Jules has been in Google Labs for a few months, and is free to use during the beta period.
Google’s futuristic conference-calling experiment has been threatening to become commercially available for a while, and Sundar Pichai just said it’s coming this year through devices from HP. And to be fair, “Google Beam” is a less fun but much more Google-y name than Starline.
NLWeb starts by offering ChatGPT-level search to any site or app, with just a few lines of code. It’s a new vision for the web.
