Artificial intelligence is reconfiguring the internet that we have known for three decades. More and more searches are made in chatbots such as Chatgpt either Gemini And less in the Seeker of Googlewhose role since 1998 has been the intermediary between the user and the websites that contain the information required. But Google’s first product began last year (since March 2025 in Spain) to show summaries generated by AI that make users need to visit the original source of information. More recently, he added a Ia mode (not yet in Spain) that The situation worsens even more.
The search engine It derives less traffic to websites (Falls from up to 40 % of visits in some of the main media in the United States), but there was still Discoverwhich for years is the main source of traffic to the media given its reach, and also will change with AI.
Google has begun to show news summaries generated by artificial intelligence directly in your popular custom news feed integrated into Androidthe Google app and the browser Chrome. According to Techcrunch, users in the United States are seeing, both in iOS as in Android, content blocks (cards, in Google’s language) that replace news with a summary generated by AI, similar to Views created with AI that appear in Google search results.
These summaries include A series of icons in the upper left corner that indicate the number of sources mentioned. By clicking on them you access a list, in the usual discover format, with all the articles that the AI has used to make the summary. This shows a previous view of three lines, which is extended playing in See more. Under the text a notice appears highlighting that the content has been generated by artificial intelligence, ‘which can make mistakes’. Although at this point it is clear that most users, that cares little.
The function seems to have been developing for a long time. Last month it was already detected that Google was testing discover cards with summaries similar to views created with AI, but now It is not a test. A Google spokesman has confirmed Techcrunch that it is a Official launch for iOS and Android In the United States. The company explained that the function will focus on Lifestyle that are trendsuch as sports and entertainment, and that their goal is to help users to decide What pages do you want to visit. How that is achieved when Google eliminates the incentive to access them, is something that does not explain.
This novelty adds to other functions that Google has been experiencing and that reduce the number of clicks to the websitesas the views created with AI, Audio Overviews (Audio summaries, for the moment only in experimental mode in the United States) or the AI mode in the search engine. The trend worries an editorial sector that You have seen web traffic fall drastically since IA provides the content of the articles, eliminating the need to visit the original sources.
This hearing and income drop It has already contributed to the closure of media in the United Stateswhich in turn Reduces the ecosystem that Google can nurture its artificial intelligence. As they say, In sin, penance is taken.