AI Search news and analysis on Web Pulse: 734 curated articles tracking the latest AI Search developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A developer building the Kadmium portal on a zero-budget Google Sites setup fixed mobile layout issues caused by fixed-pixel HTML embeds and launched kadmium.dev/ai-summary, a plain-text Markdown index following the emer…
A US government website used an AI search tool developed by Alibaba, according to a recent report, as the FBI has previously alleged the tool copied technology from US competitor Anthropic. Prediction markets now show va…
The Federal Register's website offered a search tool powered by Alibaba's Qwen AI model on Wednesday (Sep 16) before the tool was taken down the same day, despite the FBI's accusation last week that Alibaba engaged in "m…
OpenAI Group PBC launched Astra for Law, a configuration of its GPT-6 Astra model wrapped in a legal search index covering more than 230 million URLs, which passed the overall correctness check on 54% of 200 questions fr…
A developer launched Scry, a search service built on a 500 TB NVMe internet index stored in ClickHouse that lets users run arbitrary read-only SQL and some Datalog queries, with congestion-based micro-auction pricing to …
OpenAI reported that ChatGPT surpassed 1 billion weekly active users as of August 2026, a milestone the company highlighted in an August 6, 2026 post on how people are using the service. The figure, which measures weekly…
The United Nations announced a strategic partnership with Google on September 17 to launch the UN System Data Commons, a platform built on Google's open-source Data Commons technology that introduces Model Context Protoc…
Google used its Rethink ROI summit in New York to push new conversational attributes that feed structured data such as FAQ, compatible accessories and substitutes into its Shopping Graph, with early Lululemon testing sho…
A motion for summary judgment unsealed Thursday in the news organizations' copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI exposed internal documents in which Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht called scraping…
The United Nations announced on Thursday it is working with Google to launch the UN System Data Commons, a platform built on Google's open source Data Commons that makes UN statistics searchable via natural-language quer…
The United Nations system launched the UN System Data Commons, an open-source platform built on Google's Data Commons and supported by Google.org funding to the UN Foundation, that unites global statistics into a single …
Newly unredacted filings in The New York Times' three-year-old copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that a top Microsoft executive privately called the companies' AI training practices "the largest theft…
AI visibility platforms cannot produce an "accurate" share-of-voice number because no ground-truth figure exists, according to an analysis by ipullrank's Mike King, who cites one client seeing 41% from one tool and 23% f…
OpenAI has introduced advertising in ChatGPT and Google is testing sponsored answers within Gemini conversations, integrating ads directly into AI chatbot responses rather than alongside them as banners or sponsored link…
SerpApi's new Markdown output cut a "coffee" search response from 24,723 tokens in JSON to 6,435 tokens, a 74 percent reduction, with further filtering bringing it to 1,298 tokens, according to SerpApi's documentation an…
A September 14 arXiv preprint by Sriram Selvam and Anneswa Ghosh found that the raw citation advantage of the top search result over the fifth — 85.1% versus 42.8%, a 42.3 percentage-point gap — largely disappears when m…
Lucius AI, a solo-founder tender-intelligence startup, cut semantic-search query latency 47x — from 1.14 seconds to 24 milliseconds — by migrating to a ScaNN index on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and managing database operatio…
A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign preprint found that Reddit's AI search feature favored formal, already-upvoted comments over those with personal-experience markers, with a one-standard-deviation increase in for…
Semrush published a mini study within its AI Visibility Index initiative comparing how AI platforms cite sources for Your Money or Your Life (YMYL) queries versus everyday commercial queries. The research, covering 22 to…
US Senators Tammy Baldwin and Rick Scott sent a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Amazon's Alexa for Shopping and Walmart's Sparky AI shopping assistants suppress "made in the USA" product…