Google is rolling out conversational shopping—and ads—in AI Mode search

At Google I/O in May, the company announced its intention to bring conversational shopping to AI Mode. According to Google, ...

Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you

Google is expanding AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout, and an AI that calls stores for you about local ...
Search Engine Land

Google shut down Duplex on the Web

Google has shut down Duplex on the Web and has retired its web crawler, DuplexWeb-Google. Google posted a notice of this in this help document saying “Duplex on the Web is deprecated, and will no ...
VentureBeat

Google testing Duplex feature that adds names to restaurant waitlists

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google appears to be testing a new feature that allows users to add ...
Android Authority

Google Duplex is rolling out to some Pixel users, still looks outrageous

Google is rolling out Duplex to some Pixel users. The AI-powered voice assistant can make restaurant reservations. There are some subtle differences when compared to the version Google demoed earlier ...
9to5google

Google focusing Duplex on voice calls, shuts down web version that changed passwords, more

“Duplex” is Google’s umbrella term for technologies that can handle tedious, multistep tasks on your behalf. The phone version was the most well-known application of this technology, and Google is now ...
SFGate

Google’s Duplex uses AI to mimic humans (sometimes)

On a recent afternoon at the Lao Thai Kitchen restaurant in Albany, the telephone rang and the caller ID read “Google Assistant.” Jimmy Tran, a waiter, answered the phone. The caller was a man with an ...