(29 Oct 2026) Students can now access hundreds of textbooks from providers in the U.S. and India including OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, and S Chand Publishing, right in Gemini Notebook at no charge. Once you add a textbook, every answer is grounded directly in the textbook, with inline citations and direct links back to the…
(27 Oct 2026) Springer Nature and Google DeepMind have entered into a research partnership to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant designed to support peer reviewers in evaluating scientific manuscripts. The initiative aims to help reviewers navigate papers, analyze text and figures, and identify areas requiring closer examination while retaining human scientific judgment as central to…
(19 Oct 2026) Jisc and Google have announced a two-year collaboration to help UK universities and colleges move beyond AI experimentation towards wider institutional adoption, with a focus on digital skills, governance and equitable access to emerging technologies. The initiative aims to address challenges facing higher and further education institutions as they seek to…
New requirements in the U.K. look to give online publishers more leverage in negotiations with Google, while in Germany, a court has ruled that the company can be held liable for false statements in its AI Overviews. (11 Jun 2026) Two significant developments this week have targeted Google’s AI-generated summaries that now appear at…
(8 Mar 2026) Gemini for Education is now integrated in all public universities in Malaysia, reaching nearly 600,000 students and 75,000 faculty members. Discover how our no-cost, secure AI tools and training are being used to transform teaching, learning and research. As part of their existing Google Workspace for Education environment, these universities now have access…
(12 Jan 2026) Google search traffic to publishers declined globally by a third in the year to November, according to new Chartbeat data. In addition, referrals to more than 2,500 publisher websites from Google Discover, a feed served to users on Google’s native mobile apps and within its Android operating system, were down 21% year on year.…
(22 Jul 2025) Last year, Google introduced “AI Overviews,” a feature that displays an artificial intelligence-generated result summary at the top of many Google search pages. This feature is available to millions of U.S. Google users. Online publishers recently have attributed declining web traffic to these summaries replacing traditional search results, claiming that many users are relying on the summaries…
(3 Jul 2025) Google’s AI Overviews feature has led to a significant increase in the frequency of “zero clicks” to search queries — drastically reducing traffic to news websites, according to a new report. Since the Big Tech giant rolled out its artificial intelligence tool in May 2024, the percentage of web searches related to…
(27 Feb 2025) The “education technology” company Chegg filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google is breaching antitrust laws with its AI summary feature. According to the lawsuit, Google is using its monopoly position on search to scrape content from various sites and present the information in AI summaries on Google result pages. A…
(20 Feb 2025) Google has developed an AI tool to act as a virtual collaborator for biomedical scientists, the U.S. blue chip said on Wednesday. The new tool, tested by scientists at Stanford University in the U.S. and Imperial College London, uses advanced reasoning to help scientists synthesize vast amounts of literature and generate novel…