Google has expanded its AI Mode information monitoring feature to all users worldwide, moving beyond its earlier limited rollout to AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. The feature continuously checks the web for updates on topics users ask it to watch, and can also proactively suggest monitoring tasks during searches.
Pinterest has unveiled a standardized multimodal AI infrastructure built with Nvidia's Blackwell B200 GPUs and open-source Dynamo framework, aiming to make visual search faster and more cost-efficient across its fleet of roughly 14,000 Nvidia GPUs. Company benchmarks claim precomputing visual representations reduced overall latency by 7.3 times and cut inference costs to less than 8% of closed proprietary models.
Conversational AI tools are fragmenting the traditional retail search journey, forcing brands to rethink how they structure product data, create content, and measure visibility. Experts say success now hinges on verified product knowledge graphs, schema markup, and cross-functional teams — not keyword density and backlinks.