TL;DR
- The Google app now offers a trio of AI Mode options for Discover stories and article links.
- These options let you quickly summarize a news story, ask a follow-up question, or dive deeper.
- This means you don’t have to manually open AI Mode or Gemini to access these features.
Google Discover is a fixture on the vast majority of Android phones around the world, giving users a curated page of news stories and other updates. Now, it looks like Google is testing AI Mode capabilities in Discover stories and general links.
Twitter users @AndellDam and @gaganghotra_ spotted several AI Mode options after opening Discover stories and general links in the Google app. These options are visible in the three-dot menu after tapping a link or Discover article. We can confirm seeing these options in version 16.47.49.ve.arm64 of the Google app. Check out our screenshots below and a screen recording at the top of the page.
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The three options let you use AI Mode to either summarize an article, ask a follow-up query, or dive deeper. Tapping the former will give you an automatically generated summary of the article in the Google app’s AI Mode tab. Meanwhile, choosing to ask a follow-up query will direct you to the AI Mode tab, complete with a pre-inserted article URL. Finally, choosing to dive deeper will copy the article title and submit it to AI Mode as a query.
It’s worth noting that these AI Mode options are only available via the Google app, and don’t extend to other apps using Chrome Custom Tabs. Nevertheless, this could be handy if you want a quick-fire article summary or a detailed breakdown without actually switching to AI Mode or Gemini.
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