Google has launched Learn About, an AI experiment that serves as a streamlined conversational learning tool, allowing users to explore new topics without needing to provide their own sources. Unlike N…
Loomcycle released versions 1.9.0 to 1.11.1 with four major arcs: a security hardening pass closing 17 findings, a new CredentialDef system for encrypted per-tenant secrets using AES-256-GCM, cost att…
Search SDK launches a unified TypeScript SDK for integrating web search into AI agents, supporting multiple providers like Firecrawl, Tavily, Exa, Brave, and Serper with a single API. The SDK provides…
DuckDuckGo's AI search feature falsely told users that former President Donald Trump died of rabies, after ingesting fabricated content from a fake news site and a Reddit community designed to trick A…
Steel.dev released Atlas, an open-source deep research agent that allows users to own their research data. Atlas decomposes questions, routes sub-tasks to various researchers like Exa and Perplexity, …
A developer built a local AI agent browser extension called Hermes that runs entirely on the user's machine, avoiding sending browsing data to cloud LLM APIs. The extension scrapes web page context an…
SearchRouter launches a unified API that lets developers switch between search providers like Exa, Cohere, and Brave with a single string change, offering automatic fallback, fan-out routing, and unif…
Brave Search is failing to return direct links to the Wall Street Journal in its index, even when users search for specific article titles. The search engine can summarize WSJ content but omits the so…
Google announced plans in May to integrate advanced AI tools into its search engine, prompting users to consider alternatives. Five free search engines—Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, and one other—…
Perplexity AI launched its AI-powered Comet browser on July 9, 2025, initially available only to $200-per-month Max subscribers via a waitlist. The Chromium-based browser embeds Perplexity's conversat…
A 1971 protocol called Finger, which predates the World Wide Web, allows users to share personal status updates and files through a terminal without a graphical interface or JavaScript. The protocol, …
An engineer who wired eight MCP servers into a single Claude agent discovered that three pairs of tools silently collided due to the protocol's lack of built-in namespace support. The collisions cause…
A malicious npm package named "exiouss" was published on May 1, 2026, by the account "loltestpad" as a rebranded version of the previously removed "godsplan" package, now bundling a PowerShell script …
"ixpresso-core," a malicious Windows Remote Access Trojan (RAT) published on npm and disguised as a WhatsApp-integrated AI agent. Once installed, it deploys persistent malware called "Veltrix" that st…