Google Discover Just Got Smarter. Publishers Just Got Ghosted.

Google is now showing AI-generated summaries right inside Discover.

Earlier: Title, thumbnail, maybe a line.
Now: Google read articles, watches the video, summarizes it, and gives users a ready-to-skim AI blurb.

No click. No visit. No traffic for you.

Google Discover adds bullet point summaries to some news articles

Google Shows AI Summaries For Videos

Google Discover no longer just displays a simple AI summary.

Until now, cards were labeled "contentextractor," indicating that a "classic" extractor simply retrieved the title, image, and a short description.

Now, when a card is about a video and an AI summary is provided,… https://t.co/dPfmAYKwwh

— Damien (andell) (@AndellDam) July 17, 2025

Even worse — if there are multiple stories on the same topic?
Google groups them. One summary. One card. Zero context from your side.

Google Discover + Gemini AI

In Google Discover, we find "Trending" cards with an AI Overview, several sources, a news summary, and a main article.

Clicking on the site icons takes us to a new "More" page with a Discover feed for these sites, on which the AI ​​summary is based.… pic.twitter.com/F1aKELghJu

— Damien (andell) (@AndellDam) June 16, 2025

TechCrunch confirms this is rolling out in the U.S., starting with entertainment and lifestyle.
More categories and more chaos are coming.

Great for users. Great for Google.
Terrible for publishers relying on Discover for traffic.

This isn’t just Search getting AI.
It’s Google slowly summarizing you out of the internet.

Let that sink in.