What Did Google Do This Week?

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AI Mode’s footprint widened again this week with a UK launch, and Google began embedding live video and interactive canvases into search results. The update pushes Gemini further into the core search experience. Not just summarising links, but restructuring how queries are displayed and how users navigate results. Google is no longer building AI features around search. AI is now shaping the product’s architecture, UI, and user intent capture (key element) in real time.

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