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Google Introduces AI Mode in Search

Google is launching a new AI Mode feature in its Search platform for U.S. users, enabling conversational, AI-driven results sourced directly from Google’s own index rather than traditional lists of links.

Accessible via a dedicated tab placed before categories like “Images” and “Videos,” AI Mode delivers AI-generated answers in a chat-style interface while still grounding responses in real-time web data. It also saves past searches in a side panel for quick revisits and presents visual information cards that display business hours, customer reviews, pricing, and other key details at a glance.

To broaden availability, Google has removed both the Labs waitlist and the previous Google One AI Premium subscription requirement, signaling its intent to make advanced AI search capabilities mainstream. This move positions Google’s search service to compete more directly with AI-first tools like Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT search features, blending generative AI with core search functionality.

AI2 Launches Olmo 2 1B Model That Outperforms Peers

Nonprofit research institute AI2 has released Olmo 2 1B, a 1-billion-parameter language model that AI2 claims outperforms similarly-sized models from Google, Meta, and Alibaba on several standard benchmarks.

Based on rigorous model optimization, Olmo 2 1B delivers superior performance in language understanding and generation tasks relative to other 1B-parameter-class offerings.

The launch underscores a growing industry trend toward resource-efficient AI models that balance high performance with reduced computational demands, enabling broader deployment in research and edge environments.

As part of AI2’s open-science mission, Olmo 2 1B will be made available to the research community, fostering transparency, reproducibility, and collaborative improvements to foundation models.

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OpenAI Enhances ChatGPT Search with Shopping Features

OpenAI announced an update to ChatGPT’s web search capabilities, introducing shopping-focused features that provide personalized product recommendations complete with images, customer reviews, and direct purchase links.

Since its initial release, ChatGPT Search has processed over one billion searches in the past week, making these new commerce-oriented enhancements among its most requested tools. Users can now see curated product carousels and price comparisons alongside AI-generated summaries, streamlining the path from discovery to purchase within the ChatGPT interface.

These features aim to transform ChatGPT into a more capable shopping assistant by integrating real-time e-commerce data directly into conversational workflows. OpenAI highlighted that this update responds to strong user demand for context-aware, AI-driven shopping experiences in everyday search and chat environments.

The Climate Crisis Threatens Supply Chains—Manufacturers Hope AI Can Help

WIRED reports that the Covid-19 pandemic exposed just how fragile global supply chains are, and that climate shocks—such as floods and heatwaves—pose an even greater ongoing.

To build resilience, manufacturers like Katty Fashion are collaborating with AI researchers through the EU-funded R3GROUP project to create digital twins of their supply networks that analyze vulnerabilities in real time using weather and news. These AI-driven systems can suggest reconfigurations of production lines and workforce shifts preemptively if disruptions loom, enabling rapid adaptation without halting.

Professional services firms have also launched tools like Marsh McLennan’s Sentrisk, which employs large language models to parse shipping manifests and customs records for automated supply chain mapping and risk.

Meanwhile, Nvidia’s Earth-2 platform is being developed as an AI-powered “digital twin of the Earth,” offering high-resolution climate and weather predictions to guide strategic decisions for manufacturers.

MIT Technology Review’s EmTech AI 2025 Conference to Convene AI Leadership

MIT Technology Review will host EmTech AI 2025 in Cambridge, MA, and online from May 5–7, bringing together AI leaders, innovators, and practitioners for sessions on the latest breakthroughs and strategic applications of AI. The signature conference offers livestream access to mainstage keynotes, interactive Q&A panels, and on-demand recordings of expert talks, ensuring global participation even for those unable to attend in person. Ticket options include an on-site registration at $995 and a virtual livestream ticket at $900, with discounts of 40% for non-profits and universities, 25% for startups, 30% for groups of three or more, and press passes available for journalists. All attendees receive a one-year digital subscription to MIT Technology Review and three months of unlimited access to the EmTech event hub, providing rich resources and community-driven insights to fuel AI-driven digital transformation initiatives.