Tag: Search
Switching off AI in schools now means switching off Google search
Google will leave Gemini and classroom tools dormant for K-12 accounts unless administrators opt in, and its search…
Google lets third-party developers plug tools into Gemini
The company is widening the surface where third-party software can plug into its assistant, a defensive move while…
DeepSeek’s Flash update undercuts rivals on agentic cost
The Chinese lab shipped open weights for V4.1-Flash-1017 and opened its in-house search engine as a paid API.
Linkup ships a sparse retriever that trains on one GPU
SPARSEUP packs a 149M-parameter encoder under Apache 2.0 weights and reports 56.4 average nDCG@10 on BEIR-13.
Google trains a diffusion retriever to widen a single search
Google Research has distilled reinforcement-learned retrieval behaviour into a small diffusion model that fans queries out 12 to…
AI Mode turns Google into a trip booking agent
Google's AI Mode can now track flight prices, book hotels, and show travel costs in points and miles.
Keenable scores $26M from Accel for an agent-first web index
A Yandex search veteran's startup raised $26M to build a web index tuned for AI agents.
Google gives publishers a button to collect loyal readers
Google lets publishers embed a button that makes readers mark them as a favorite source.
Google AI answers gain ground as publishers lose traffic
Google AI Overviews now appear in 43 percent of searches, nearly tripling in a year and deepening publisher…