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Google introduces new AI mode in search

Participants attend Google's annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. [AFP]

Google on Tuesday said it was beefing up online searches with even more generative artificial intelligence, as it presses on with embracing AI despite fears for its ad-based business model.

CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the company's annual developers event, said Google's search engine would feature a new AI mode, as he boasted that "decades of research" were reaching fruition with the new technology.

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