Google isn't a search engine anymore

Hey there,

Today’s newsletter is all about Google and how it's not just updating Search, but redefining it.

From AI agents that browse the web for you, to new tools that answer questions, complete tasks, and adapt to your personal context this isn’t the old search bar anymore.

In today’s post:

• Google: AI agents take over Search

• AI Mode: Smarter, faster, fully interactive Search

• Project Astra: Search that sees and speaks

• Deep Search, shopping agents, and personal context

• Trending AI tools

What’s Trending Today

Breakthrough

Google just replaced the search bar with AI agents

After two decades of link lists, the company revealed its next act: AI agents that read the web for you, answer your questions, and act on your behalf.

Here's everything you need to know:

• Every U.S. Search user now gets "AI mode," where agents visit and summarize web pages.

• Project Mariner gives Ultra subscribers an agent that multitasks across ten browsing tasks at once.

• Deep Research, now tied to Gmail and Drive, compiles custom research reports.

• Project Astra lets users speak to an AI that sees and responds in real time.

• Google is building an agent infrastructure with SDK support for Anthropic's MCP.

• Microsoft is pushing a parallel vision of an "open agentic web" powered by cross-platform agents.

• But AI agents threaten publishers, undercutting ad models and centralizing traffic.

Here’s what I think:

Google isn't iterating on Search. It's dismantling it. The company that built the web's front door is now sending proxies to open it for us. That future may feel efficient, until we realize we’re no longer the ones walking through.

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Launch

Google's AI Mode is here and it's much more than Search

Google just dropped the biggest update to Search since, well, Search.

AI Mode isn’t just faster or smarter it’s fundamentally different. It doesn’t find links. It finds answers, completes tasks, and adapts to your life.

Here's everything you need to know:

• AI Mode is now live in the U.S., turning Google Search into a fully interactive AI engine.

• It breaks down your query, runs hundreds of sub-searches, and brings back structured, relevant results.

• Deep Search builds full research reports across disparate sources in minutes.

• Project Astra’s "Live" feature lets Search see through your camera and talk with you.

• Agentic tools handle real tasks like ticket booking, form-filling, and reservations.

• A new shopping assistant tries clothes on you virtually and buys them when prices drop.

• Search will soon personalize results using Gmail, Drive, and past search history if you opt in.

Here’s what I think:

Search has stopped being a tool and started becoming a teammate. But the more it learns from us and acts for us, the more we’ll need to ask: who’s really deciding what we see? And what gets left out?

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