Search APIs from Brave, Tavily, and Firecrawl serve as decision surfaces for AI agents, not just retrieval tools, according to an experiment using a fixed GPT-5.4 agent and 100 SEALQA-HARD questions. …
A new study from arXiv finds that commercial search APIs for tool-using agents achieve similar answer accuracy (25, 25, and 26 out of 100 questions for Brave, Tavily, and Firecrawl, respectively) but …
Perplexity's Sonar search tool ranked last among eight agentic search tools tested 3,537 times in the Agentic Search Index v0.1, with Serper, Tavily, and Parallel Pro taking the top three spots. The i…
A developer built a Chrome dictionary extension in two weeks using the Free Dictionary API, publishing it to the Chrome Web Store and expanding to Firefox, Opera, and Brave. The extension, which is ab…
Mullvad browser users report that Qwen.ai, an AI chatbot service, is inaccessible due to aggressive privacy protections, with console errors including third-party cookie rejection and WebGL context lo…
A user reports that Ask Brave, which combines Llama and Qwen models with Brave's search indexing, is the best privacy-friendly cloud-based LLM option, outperforming Lumo and duck.ai's models like gpt-…
Reins, an open-source tool from Karnstack, lets coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor control a user's real logged-in browser via a CLI, daemon, and Chrome extension, with no cloud component and f…
Loomcycle released v1.15.0-v1.15.1 of its search infrastructure, replacing the single-provider free tier with a multi-provider fallback circuit. The update introduces a Provider interface with five pu…
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…