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30 articles about ai search in AI news
You Deployed AI Search and Relevance Got Worse. Here’s Why It Happens
Retail TouchPoints reports that AI search deployments often worsen relevance due to poor embeddings, lack of fine-tuning, and misaligned ranking. This matters because retailers investing in AI search must address these pitfalls to avoid customer frustration and revenue loss.
Hermès Tops List of Luxury Brands in AI Search – WWD Report
WWD reports Hermès tops luxury brands in AI search visibility. A separate study warns LLMs misinterpret luxury brands, reducing their AI presence. This dual finding underscores the need for luxury houses to optimize for AI-driven discovery.
Amazon Launches Generative AI Search Tool That Creates Real-Time Images
Amazon launched a generative AI search tool that creates real-time images from text descriptions to improve product discovery. This leverages Amazon Bedrock and Trainium chips, marking a shift toward AI-driven visual search in e-commerce.
Developer Claims AI Search Equivalent to Perplexity Can Be Built Locally on a $2,500 Mac Mini
A developer asserts that the core functionality of Perplexity's $20-200/month AI search service can be replicated using open-source LLMs, crawlers, and RAG frameworks on a single Mac Mini for a one-time $2,5k hardware cost.
The Intent-Source Divide: How AI Search Queries Shape Hotel Discovery
A new arXiv study audits Google Gemini's hotel recommendations in Tokyo, finding a 25.1 percentage-point gap in citations between experiential and transactional queries. This 'Intent-Source Divide' suggests AI search may reduce reliance on Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) for discovery.
Algorithmic Trust and Compliance: A New Framework for Visibility in Generative AI Search
A new arXiv study introduces Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), a framework for optimizing content for AI search engines. It finds AI exhibits a strong bias towards authoritative, third-party sources, making compliance and trust signals critical for visibility in regulated sectors.
Perplexica Emerges as Open-Source Privacy-First AI Search Alternative
Perplexica offers a fully open-source, privacy-first AI search engine that runs locally on user hardware, providing an alternative to cloud-based services like Perplexity AI without subscriptions or data tracking.
Perplexity CEO Reveals Key Distinction Between AI Search and Traditional Models
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas explains how their 'Personal Computer' approach fundamentally differs from OpenAI's models, emphasizing real-time information retrieval over static knowledge bases. This distinction highlights the evolving landscape of AI-powered search tools.
SAPO: A One-Line Code Fix for Training Stable AI Search Agents
Researchers propose SAPO, a simple modification to stabilize reinforcement learning for search agents, preventing catastrophic training collapse. It delivers +10.6% performance gains with minimal code changes.
Furniture.com Pivots from SEO to AI Search Optimization
Furniture.com, a legacy domain from the dot-com era, is overhauling its product data and website to appear in AI chatbot search results. This reflects a strategic shift as consumer search behavior moves from keyword-based queries to conversational AI assistants.
Future-Proof Your AI Search: Why Static Knowledge Bases Fail Luxury Retail
New research reveals AI retrieval benchmarks degrade over time as information changes. For luxury brands using AI for product recommendations and clienteling, this means static knowledge bases become stale, hurting customer experience and sales.
Agentic AI Shopping Agents: Reclaiming Customer Relationships in the Age of AI Search
Third-party AI agents are reshaping discovery, threatening direct brand relationships. Luxury retailers must deploy their own agentic AI to guide high-value journeys, curate personalized assortments, and own the client experience.
AI-Powered Search Makes Customer Reviews a Critical SEO Battleground
AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity are reshaping product discovery by synthesizing customer reviews into recommendations. Brands are now aggressively soliciting detailed reviews to optimize for this new discovery layer, treating review volume and quality as a form of AI SEO.
Perplexity AI Launches On-Device Search Engine: Privacy-First AI Comes Home
A new privacy-first AI search engine called Perplexity AI now runs entirely on users' own hardware, eliminating cloud data transmission. This breakthrough represents a significant shift toward decentralized, secure AI processing that protects user queries from corporate surveillance.
Nebius Makes $275M Bet on AI Agent Search with Tavily Acquisition
European cloud provider Nebius acquires AI search startup Tavily for $275 million, integrating agentic search capabilities into its AI cloud platform to challenge major players in the competitive AI infrastructure market.
Best Buy Partners with Google to Integrate Product Catalog into AI-Powered Discovery
Best Buy is partnering with Google to enable direct purchasing within AI search and Gemini, positioning itself as a hub for AI hardware discovery. This move responds to flat revenue and aims to capture new digital shopping behaviors.
BAAI's AREX: Recursively Self-Improving Research Agents
BAAI releases AREX models that recursively self-improve by alternating research and constraint verification.
Native Acquires Frontline Research Group to Expand Agentic AI Platform
Native acquired Frontline Research Group to expand its agentic AI platform, integrating research capabilities for enterprise automation. This matters as agentic AI adoption accelerates across industries.
Octen Deep Research Bench Scores Beat OpenAI, Gemini by 17 Points
Octen's deep research tool beat OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity by 10–17 points on DeepResearch Bench, returning reports in under 3 minutes.
SciCode: Epoch AI Launches Benchmark Measuring AI Research Ability
Epoch AI launched SciCode benchmark testing LLMs on real research coding tasks. Top models score below 30%, exposing gap between coding benchmarks and scientific ability.
SemiAnalysis Launches Mythos AI Research Platform
SemiAnalysis launched Mythos, a proprietary AI research platform for semiconductor and AI industry analysis, announced via Twitter on March 5, 2026.
OpenAI Targets 2028 for AI to Perform Significant Research
Sam Altman predicts AI will conduct significant research by March 2028, a concrete milestone for autonomous AI capabilities.
Google Search VP: AI-native search costs more, grows volume
Google VP Robby Stein says AI-native Search costs more but grows volume. AI Mode breaks queries into sub-searches.
OpenAI Agents Now Ask Questions Good Enough for Research Papers
Sébastien Bubeck revealed on the OpenAI Podcast that internal AI agents now ask research questions so insightful they're inspiring papers and correcting published mistakes, with a 1-2 year timeline for full researcher-level capabilities.
Onyx: Open-Source AI Enterprise Search Challenges Glean's $7.2B Valuation
Open-source platform Onyx provides self-hosted AI enterprise search connecting to 40+ tools, offering a free alternative to Glean's $50/user/month SaaS. Backed by YC and $10M seed funding, it's used by Netflix and Ramp.
AI Agents Now Training Other AI Models, Sparking Autoresearch Trend
AI agents are now being used to train other AI models, creating advanced agentic systems. This development stems from Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch repository and represents early-stage automation of AI research.
NVIDIA Research Shows AI Can Optimize Decades-Old EDA Tools Like ABC
New NVIDIA research indicates AI can be used to optimize Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, such as the classic ABC system, which have been manually tuned by engineers for decades. This could automate a core, labor-intensive bottleneck in semiconductor design.
Anthropic Launches STEM Fellows Program to Pair Experts with AI Research
Anthropic announced the Anthropic STEM Fellows Program, a new initiative to bring science and engineering experts into its research teams for collaborative, months-long projects aimed at accelerating progress with AI.
Codex 'Chronicle' Research Preview Adds Memory for Daily Developer Context
A research preview of 'Chronicle' for Codex has been released. It enables the AI coding assistant to accumulate memories from a developer's daily workflow to improve context.
Researchers Achieve Ultra-Long-Horizon Agentic Science with Cohesive AI Agents
A research team has developed AI agents capable of executing and maintaining coherent, long-horizon scientific research workflows. This addresses a core challenge in creating autonomous systems for complex discovery.