#AI search
15 stories taggedAI search.
Profound Raises $180 Million So Your Brand Shows Up When Someone Asks an AI
The two-year-old startup hit a $1.8 billion valuation after tripling revenue in six months. Its pitch: if shoppers are asking AI instead of Google, you need to be in the answer.
How Google's AI Search Wants to Coach Your Next Marathon
Google is pitching AI Mode as a race-day assistant, from training plans to playlists to gear shopping. Here is what it actually does.
John Lewis Is Building a YouTube Chat Show to Get Its Products Into AI Search Results
The British department store is betting that video content will help chatbots recommend its products. Here is what that strategy looks like, and why more retailers will follow.
Clipto: The AI Helping You Find Lost Files Worth $250M
Clipto wants to be the search engine for files already on your computer, and it just raised $15M to prove there's a business in that.
A new tool lets you train a medical-grade AI search model on a single gaming GPU in half a day
Sentence Transformers v6.0 adds a smarter way to match search queries to documents, token by token. A real-world test beat every off-the-shelf retrieval model on medical text.
Google Lets Publishers Add a 'Favourite Source' Button to Fight AI Search Traffic Losses
A new embeddable button lets readers tell Google which news sites they trust, nudging the algorithm to show those sites more often in Search, Discover and Google News.
Sentence Transformers Gets a Smarter Search Engine Under the Hood
A new update to one of the most popular AI search libraries adds a technique called late interaction, which matches text word by word instead of squeezing everything into a single number. Here is what that means and why it matters.
Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its code and cuts feature launch time in half
The company ships nearly 80% more features than it did a year ago, and its AI customer support bot now handles 45% of issues without a single human stepping in.
AI search is sending more shoppers to Shopify stores, not fewer
While publishers watch AI summaries drain their traffic, Shopify says AI-driven visits and orders to its merchants tripled year-over-year in Q2 2025.
Brands Are Flooding Reddit With Fake Reviews So AI Chatbots Pick Them Up. Moderators Are Fighting Back.
AI search tools cite Reddit more than any news site or Wikipedia. Marketers noticed. Now a quiet war is playing out between promotional bots and the volunteer moderators trying to keep communities honest.
AI reads your website but sends people to your front door. Most sites are not ready for that.
Traffic from Google Search has collapsed for many publishers. But a new kind of visitor is arriving through AI chatbots, and they land somewhere completely different from where the AI found the information.
Perplexity Lets You Build a Panel of AI Models to Debate Your Hardest Questions
The search company's Model Council feature now lets paying users pick up to eight AI models, have them tackle a question independently, then read a synthesis of where they agree and where they split.
Google's AI search answers now appear in nearly half of all searches
A year ago, Google's AI-generated summaries showed up in one in seven searches. New data shows they now appear in almost one in two. Here's what that means for you and the websites you used to visit.
The Google traffic deal is dead. What does that mean for the web?
Websites built their businesses on Google sending them readers. Now AI summaries are keeping people on Google's page, and publishers are starting to fight back.
Apple Rewrote Its Music Search Engine to Understand What You Actually Mean
A new AI model buried inside Apple Music can now match your misspelled, foreign-language, or phonetically typed song searches to the right track. Here's how it works and why it matters.