By Kyle Orland
Publication Date: 2026-10-28 17:46:00
Did AI Mode suffer a concussion somewhere between 1992 and 2020?
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Google / Kyle Orland
Separate from Google’s AI Mode, the company’s own Gemini model seems perfectly capable of telling me who won recent presidential elections. The same goes for other major chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and even the government-run AI model at America.gov.
Why so cautious?
Perhaps tellingly, Google AI Mode’s issues with providing direct…