AI News & Updates for August 2025

Google uses AI and large language models to fight invalid ad traffic and protect ad spend

3 hours ago

Google uses large language models to combat invalid traffic (IVT), which wastes ad budgets and harms trust by targeting non-genuine ad activity. Their Ad Traffic Quality team, collaborating with Google Research and DeepMind, has enhanced defenses to better identify problematic ad placements. These improvements analyze content, placements, and user interactions, reducing IVT by 40% and protecting advertisers and publishers.

Google Ads Monthly Slides with AI Insights

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Create professional Google Ads performance reports in Google Slides with AI insights and visualizations. Transform Google Ads data into polished presentations featuring AI-generated insights and custom visuals to impress stakeholders and streamline reporting. Use cases include reducing manual reporting time, presenting insights without design skills, maintaining reporting schedules, identifying trends, and sharing campaign insights for strategic decisions.

Brave Launches AI Grounding API to Boost Search Accuracy and Reduce AI Hallucinations

1 days ago

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Brave's AI Grounding with its Search API connects AI outputs to verified web data, reducing errors and improving responses. It achieves top results on the SimpleQA benchmark without tuning. Powering Brave Search's AI features with over 15M daily queries, it supports major AI LLMs with real-time data. Available via new or updated API plans, single-search offers fast, cost-efficient answers, while multi-search supports deeper research with higher cost and latency.

Genie 3 AI creates dynamic, consistent video game worlds in real time

7 days ago

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Google's Genie 3 is a new AI world model that generates diverse, interactive environments in real time at 24 fps and 720p resolution. It improves on previous models by offering longer consistency, better realism, and real-time interaction. Genie 3 simulates natural phenomena, ecosystems, animations, and historical settings, enabling dynamic, navigable worlds with promptable events like weather changes, enhancing AI training and immersive experiences.

Google launches Video Overviews and Studio upgrades in NotebookLM AI assistant

14 days ago

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Google is introducing Video Overviews to NotebookLM, its AI note-taking assistant, which use narrated slides with visuals to clarify complex topics. Users can customize these overviews by topic, learning goals, and audience. The Studio panel now allows multiple outputs of the same type per notebook, like Audio and Video Overviews, Mind Maps, and Reports, enhancing collaboration and learning. Updates roll out in English first.

Microsoft introduces Copilot Mode in Edge for smarter AI browsing

15 days ago

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Microsoft Edge introduces Copilot Mode, an AI-powered browsing feature that anticipates user needs, integrates chat, search, and navigation in one input, and manages multiple tabs for better context. It supports voice commands and will soon perform advanced tasks like booking reservations. Copilot prioritizes privacy, requiring user permission to access data, and is available free for a limited time on Windows and Mac. Users can opt in or out anytime.

Google Shopping launches AI try-on feature and price alert updates for shoppers

19 days ago

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Google Shopping has introduced new AI features, including a virtual try-on tool that lets users upload a photo to see how clothes fit. This feature is available in the U.S. Users can also set price alerts for specific sizes and colors, receiving notifications when items fall within their budget. Additionally, starting this fall, AI will assist in finding outfit and room design inspiration by generating visual options and product listings based on user queries.

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Google rolls out Veo 3 video-generation model globally for AI Pro subscribers

1 months ago

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Google launched Veo 3 video generation for Gemini users in 159+ countries, limited to three videos daily for AI Pro subscribers. The AI Pro plan includes 2 TB storage, 1,000 monthly AI Credits, and access to tools like Flow, Whisk Animate, NotebookLM, and Gemini in apps. Users must be 18+, have a personal Google Account, and students in some countries get free upgrades. Features support video/image creation, research, and collaboration with safety limits.

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Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default and offers Pay Per Crawl payment model

1 months ago

AI SEO

Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default and introduces Pay Per Crawl, letting content creators charge AI services for access. Using HTTP 402 responses and authentication, publishers can allow, charge, or block crawlers with flat prices. This empowers creators to monetize content at scale and supports future dynamic pricing and agent-based access. Pay Per Crawl is in private beta.

Google launches Doppl app to visualize outfits with AI on iOS and Android

1 months ago

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Google launched Doppl, an experimental AI app on iOS and Android in the U.S. that lets users visualize outfits on a digital animated version of themselves. It builds on Google Shopping's virtual try-on by allowing photo uploads of outfits to try on. Doppl creates AI-generated videos to show how clothes might feel. Users can save and share looks. The app is experimental and may have inaccuracies.

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