AI Search news and analysis on Web Pulse: 728 curated articles tracking the latest AI Search developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
DeepSeek released two JSON APIs, Search and Fetch, giving developers access to its own search index and a URL-to-Markdown extraction service at $0.75 per 1,000 successful calls, with only successful requests billed. The …
Exa released Exa 3.0 on October 18th, adding a lower-cost search tier, a broader index and a retrieval feature designed to cut the amount of webpage text AI systems must process. The API is available with Exa Lite priced…
A developer outlined a staged retrieval architecture for real-estate listing discovery that uses one collection per retrieval contract, incremental upserts keyed on chunk hashes, and explicit deletion of withdrawn listin…
DeepSeek opened its in-house search engine to developers on Oct. 17 through a Search API priced at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, with each result carrying an authority tier from 0 to 4 (-1 for unknown) and a reran…
Giving Claude Haiku 5.5 a single upfront query to the Context Graph API made the model answer 17 engineering questions about a large codebase 23% faster on average, for 19% less money and in 17% fewer steps, according to…
Treg, the agent-tools company founded by Jason Zhou with founding engineer Shi Tianxin, announced an open-source answer engine optimization (AEO) toolkit on October 19th, 2026 that records websites cited in AI answers an…
A developer has proposed an API-based "AI Citation Registry" architecture to sit between California's GovTech publishing providers and AI platforms, preserving authority, jurisdiction, provenance, and attribution metadat…
OneGlanse has launched as a self-hostable, MIT-licensed tool that tracks how brands appear in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overview. Unlike API-based trackers, OneGlanse co…
A developer published a guide for building a read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI assistants search and read a public content site through explicit tools rather than scraping pages. The design uses …
Meta's rewritten Commercial Terms, effective October 30, 2026, grant the company the right to crawl websites "associated with" any business account — including Pages, ad accounts and WhatsApp Business — and use collected…
Eight of 10 AI search tools tested, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok and Google AI, cited posts about a fabricated concept called the "Cactus Gravity Protocol" within seven days of the posts going live, according to a…
Mozilla.ai is building Otari, a tool that lets developers keep their chosen model while selecting the web search backend behind their agents — Mozilla.ai's own, a user-supplied API key, or a self-hosted engine. The Mozil…
DeepSeek released two standalone APIs on October 17, 2026 — Search, which returns structured web results, and Fetch, which retrieves a URL as Markdown — each priced at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests. A developer-ori…
Search Engine Roundtable launched an AI screenshot-scanning tool, "Is It New," that lets users upload a screenshot, add descriptive text and highlight a region so the tool can determine whether a Google, Bing or other se…
SerpApi added three AI-answer scraping APIs — Google Gemini API, Duck AI API and Naver AI Mode API — in its October 12–18, 2026 changelog, each returning answers as structured text blocks (paragraphs, headings, lists, ta…
A developer released gsearch, an open-source MCP server that runs a real Firefox browser via Camoufox to return Google's live results page as typed JSON, including resolved links, the AI Overview, People also ask and rel…
Google confirmed on October 13, 2026 that Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out inside AI Mode in Google Search, giving Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers a new model option for complex, multi-step queries. The model …
A developer built the AI Search Visibility Tracker, an Apify Actor that queries AI assistants such as Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini and records whether a brand's domain is cited in the generated answers. The tool return…
As of 19 October 2026, no benchmark has shown that a local code index reliably cuts token use for coding agents, though Pensieve's own benchmark measured 43% fewer tool calls than grep (1.97 versus 3.44 per lookup) while…
DeepSeek's web access API, launched 17 October 2026, offers the cheapest search among six compared providers at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, according to a comparison checked against vendor pages on 19 October 20…