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Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition….Google launches the ability to make purchases directly from Google Search’s AI Mode and Gemini…Apple selects Google to power an upgraded Siri…Meta announces a new AI infrastructure team…researchers use AI to find new ways to edit genes.

It was another week with a lot of AI-related announcements. Among the bigger news items was Google’s launch of an e-commerce shopping checkout feature directly from Google Search’s AI Mode and its Gemini chatbot app.