Generative search is changing how results are surfaced and cited, and with it what "ranking" means. This section tracks AI Overviews and AI Mode in Google, the assistants people now search with directly — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity — and the emerging practice of optimising to be cited by a model rather than clicked from a list. Model Watch below logs new releases from the labs as they ship, because which model sits behind an assistant changes what it retrieves and who it cites.
Latest releases from the labs behind AI search
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How AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are reshaping organic search, citations and SEO strategy — plus a running log of major model releases.
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As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.
Read on TechCrunch AI →Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data gathered from permit…
Read on TechCrunch AI →The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions.
Read on TechCrunch AI →The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
Read on TechCrunch AI →Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
Read on Google Gemini →Decodo has introduced Web Data API, combining scraping, searching, mapping, and crawling under one key for AI agents and retrieval pipelines.
Read on SEJ — Generative AI →Why would an AI search provider keep trusting information a brand hides from its own website? The parallels with cloaking are too close to ignore.
Read on SEJ — Generative AI →Today, we’re announcing our research on Genie 4, our new world model that brings unprecedented realism and native audio to real-time interactive simulation.The Genie 4 m…
Read on Google DeepMind →From deep research to interactive design, here are eight examples of what Gemini 4 Argon, our most intelligent model yet, is capable of.
Read on Google Gemini →Looking things up now makes up about as large a share of consumer ChatGPT messages as writing, though the increase is smaller than earlier data.
Read on SEJ — Generative AI →Allocate your next marketing budget increase by weighing retention and conversion fixes against more paid search, then fund the bottleneck with evidence.
Read on SEJ — Generative AI →How Greptile uses GPT-6 Astra to test user workflows, Daybreak to strengthen security, and Codex to reduce rework.
Read on OpenAI News →Wait for Google to send the booking, or build channels you own. That choice does not need to wait for generative UI.
Read on SEJ — Generative AI →CodeRabbit uses GPT-6.1 Sol to investigate security risks across complex codebases. Its security agent helps developers review findings and proposed fixes.
Read on OpenAI News →Brands logged-out ChatGPT rarely named without search also showed up less when it searched, even with cited-page coverage, in new comparison-prompt data.
Read on SEJ — Generative AI →Measure AI search beyond clicks with STAT’s Tom Capper: track brand presence, investigate citations, and improve your attribution story.
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Read on OpenAI News →See how five builders are putting Gemini 4 Argon to work — and get inspired for your next build.
Read on Google Gemini →Anima expands what care teams can do with OpenAI models, giving them more capacity to respond to patients.
Read on OpenAI News →Learn more about our approach to safety and security for Gemini 4 Argon.
Read on Google Gemini →Gemini 4 Argon brings frontier reasoning and agentic coding to the Google Gemini app. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can now access Gemini 4 Argon.
Read on Google Gemini →Build complex software and cybersecurity workflows with Google Gemini 4 Argon. Check out the Gemini API Developer Guide and read the Google Antigravity and Android Studi…
Read on Google Gemini →We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.
Read on Google Gemini →Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, our frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense, rolling out soon.
Read on Google Gemini →WeatherNext 3, our most advanced global weather AI model, is now in Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud.
Read on Google DeepMind →For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On…
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