Google’s AI Overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion people every month

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google’s AI Overviews in Search now have “1.5 billion users per month,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement as part of Alphabet’s Q1 2025 earnings. AI Overviews are just one of many AI tools the company is working on; in Q1, it rolled out features like the Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental AI model, a feature that lets you make AI podcasts from Gemini’s Deep Research tool, and the Gemini-powered ability for Google Maps to scan screenshots to help you plan trips. Google also announced in March that it would be officially dumping Assistant for Gemini on mobile “over the coming months,” and on today’s earnings call, Pichai said that “tablets, cars, and devices that connect to your phones such as headphones and watches,” would be moved over to Gemini later this year. On the hardware front in Q1, Google announced the Pixel 9A, though it didn’t launch the phone until April ... Read full article.