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Google said Thursday that it has begun migrating its "AI Mode" out of its experimental Labs effort and into the real world. Google said that a "small percentage of people" in the "coming weeks" will see what Google calls AI Mode, or entirely AI-generated responses to queries that users ask. It's Google's response to services like Anthropic, which "answer" queries using AI, which slurps up and regurgitates answers that others have already provided. Google first began revamping its search algorithm in 2023, when it started aggregating AI-powered summaries of say, the best laptops. AI has been used elsewhere by Google services like Chrome to sum up web pages, as well.

AI Mode in Google Search is one step closer to public launch now that the waitlist has been removed for U.S. users. In an announcement on Thursday, Google shared that all users over 18 years old can now opt in to trying out AI Mode in Labs, the company's testing ground for new AI features. Google calls AI mode a "new Search experiment that uses advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities to answer even your toughest questions." Google also shared that it's introducing "product and place cards" within the responses for up-to-date information, including images, ratings, reviews, store hours, and availability. For the uninitiated, AI Mode is Google's search feature that combines the Gemini chatbot experience with search results.

Amazon is kicking off the month of May with some pretty impressive deals on top brands like Garmin, Echo, and Bowflex. These are just deals for the sake of deals -- and those are our favorite kind. In a time when everything is getting more expensive, it's a thrill to see brands actually lowering prices. We've rounded up some discounts we think are worth grabbing. Here are our top picks for the best Amazon deals of the day on May 1.

Have you ever wanted a mobile device designed solely to scan your eyeballs? No, that sounds a little creepy? Tools for Humanity, a start-up backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, debuted the Orb Mini this week, a smartphone-sized device with two massive eye sensors on it. The hardware is part of the World project and app, a grand plan aimed at creating a global identification system. The idea is that these sensors, paired with a blockchain registry, could serve as a tool for verifying someone's humanity.

Xbox prices are also rising in other countries around the world, with the Series S increasing by 80 in Europe and 50 in Australia. It represents a big change in an industry which would typically see prices go down in the years after a console's launch. "We understand that these changes are challenging," Microsoft said in a blog post. "They were made with careful consideration given market conditions and the rising cost of development." Kedhrin Gonzalez, founder of Rip & Tear studios, told the BBC he felt the price rise was "inevitable" and "catalysed by current tariff disruptions".

Google has updated AI Mode, making it a better fit for planning your summer vacation, shopping trip, or learning more about any topic. Plus, if you're interested in trying the tool, access to it just got a lot easier. Google's new AI Mode takes Search's real-time information access and combines it with the best generative AI capabilities -- such as longer natural queries and personalized answers -- to create an AI search engine experience. It is especially helpful for nuanced questions with many criteria, like shopping and trip planning. Also: New Google Labs experiments help you learn new languages in'bite-sized' lessons "We are really enabling, helping you shop and seek local businesses, and plan your travel much better," said Soufi Esmaeilzadeh, the director of Search product management, to ZDNET.

When Google debuted AI Mode at the start of March, the company promised to work quickly on bringing the feature to more users, and now it's doing exactly. Following a smaller expansion last month, the company says AI Mode is now available to all Labs users, with no wait list in place to limit access. As a reminder, AI Mode is a new chatbot that Google has built directly into Search. Labs, meanwhile, is a program you can sign up for to try out new Search features before they're widely available. With today's expansion, Google is also updating AI Mode to add new visual cards that will appear when you ask the chatbot for information related to places and products.

Microsoft is continuing its efforts to get straggling Windows 10 users to make the jump to Windows 11. Last week, the company published a new blog post (spotted by Windows Central) that shamelessly promotes its new Copilot PCs as the way forward for users still on older Windows 10 PCs that aren't eligible for the Windows 11 upgrade. Among other things, Microsoft is trying to entice you with brand-new AI features such as Recall, which takes periodic screenshots of your screen, analyzes it using AI, then indexes it so you can search through all your past PC activity at a later time. Another big benefit touted in the blog post is that Copilot PCs are purported to be up to five times faster than a five-year-old Windows device, with enhanced security features on top. Yet, while Copilot PCs are certainly novel and do offer plenty of benefits in the battery life and performance departments, they're still in need of some serious improvements.

An industry-standard league table for ranking artificial intelligence models is being deliberately distorted by technology giants, researchers have claimed, leading to a misleading picture of which AIs are the best. Sara Hooker at Cohere Labs, a US non-profit, and her colleagues claim to have found that the popular Chatbot Arena benchmark is a "distorted playing field", with policies that end up giving an advantage to large companies like Meta, Amazon and Google by allowing them to discard models that score poorly.