A developer replaced Google's Custom Search JSON API with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search ahead of Google's January 1, 2027 shutdown deadline for existing customers. The engineer chose AgentCore's…
Nine Model Context Protocol servers returned 116 tools and 38,900 tokens of definitions, consuming 19.4% of a 200,000-token context window before any user input, according to a measurement by an unnam…
Mozilla released Firefox 155, the first under its new twice-monthly schedule, expanding the AI-powered Smart Window browsing mode to users in the USA, Canada, and France, with opt-in access and suppor…
Keenable AI released NEEDLE, an open-source live search benchmark that regenerates its query set hourly from RSS feeds and Google Trends for news and daily from SEC XBRL, arXiv, Europe PMC, CourtListe…
Fudge, a design analysis tool, captured the visual design of Exa's API pricing page at exa.ai/pricing, revealing a palette of four colors (#09111a, #ffffff, #000000, #6b6b6b) and the use of fonts Abc …
Ritwik launched Makra, a memoization-driven web scraping engine for AI agents, claiming it cuts data retrieval costs to one-tenth of prior generations while eliminating hallucinations and prompt injec…
Agentmuxer, a Y Combinator-backed platform from Amorphic Labs, launched on August 25 as an open router for AI agent capabilities, offering unified access to tools like web search, data scraping, and i…
A developer's measurement of the x402 economy, a protocol revived by Coinbase from an unused 1997 HTTP status code, found total 30-day gross merchandise value of just $11,748 across 14,128 registered …
Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, launched Radar, a podcast search engine that transcribes and understands audio from over 130,000 podcasts, making it the larges…
Kuma Voice, a self-hosted open-source voice assistant for Apple Watch, lets users run a watch-only assistant without an iPhone, streaming audio to a FastAPI backend that holds provider credentials and…
A comparison of eight news search APIs—Webz.io, Exa, Brave, You.com, Tavily, Valyu, Perplexity, and Parallel—finds that Webz.io offers the most explicit news-database approach with hybrid semantic and…
Exa co-founder Will Bryk announced on August 22 that Jeff Pinner, former CTO of Robinhood and Lyft, has been appointed as Exa's chief technology officer. Pinner, who was separated from Robinhood's CTO…
A developer released an open-source ePub reader that integrates coding agents from GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini, allowing users to chat with an AI agent about the book's content usin…
Locus, a YC-backed startup founded by Cole Dermott, launched Locus Pro on August 20th, a billing and metering layer that gives AI platforms one prepaid balance and credential for over 600 pay-per-use …
Sourcery, an independent benchmark run by an unnamed developer, evaluated eight search APIs by having three LLMs—Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GLM 5.2—score the retrieved pages for 204 questions…
Parallel, Exa, and Firecrawl lead the Artificial Analysis Search Index for search APIs, with Parallel winning on quality, Exa on speed and cost, and Firecrawl on free-tier accessibility, according to …
Mozilla announced new features for Firefox's AI-powered Smart Window, including automatic tab grouping, duplicate tab detection, and integration with AI search company Exa, which enables retrieval of …
Artificial Analysis released the Search Index, a benchmark ranking search API providers for AI agents on quality, cost, and speed, with Parallel, Firecrawl, and Parallel (turbo) achieving the best cos…
Mozilla has partnered with Exa to power web retrieval for Firefox's AI features, including Smart Window on desktop and Quick Answers on iOS, with visible citations and a zero-data-retention commitment…
Mozilla's Firefox has launched Smart Window, a privacy-first, AI-powered browsing experience designed to help users finish tasks started online, with new capabilities including source-backed answers v…