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What Is Perplexity SPACE? The Sandbox Behind Perplexity Computer
Long-running AI agents create an infrastructure problem that ordinary code sandboxes were not designed to solve. The agent needs enough freedom to install software, execute code, m...
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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Compresses the Cost of Long-Horizon Agents—One Million Tokens Now Fit Behind a Much Smaller Retrieval Cache
DeepSeek has released a model built around one of the least glamorous but most consequential bottlenecks in agentic AI: the cost of repeatedly reading and retaining enormous contex...
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DuckDuckGo Turns Private AI Search Into a Multi-Model Marketplace—GPT-5.6 and Claude Opus Now Sit Behind Its Paid Discovery Layer
DuckDuckGo has quietly turned Duck.ai into a tiered multi-model gateway where the privacy layer stays consistent but the reasoning engine increasingly depends on what the user pays...
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Google Universal Cart Turns Product Visibility Across Search and Gemini Into a Cross-Merchant Agentic Checkout Funnel
Google is turning product discovery across Search and Gemini into a persistent shopping funnel that can survive the move between merchants, queries and Google surfaces. Universal C...
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The Same Query Can Produce Different AI Search Recommendations Based on Each User’s Private Context
Google is globalizing a form of Search personalization that makes the idea of one reproducible answer to one query increasingly fragile. Personal Intelligence in AI Mode is expandi...
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Google Can Now Turn Retrieved Content Into Custom Apps—Being Cited May Mean Supplying Data to an Interface, Not Receiving a Click
Google is preparing Search for a world in which the answer to a query is not necessarily a paragraph, a list of links or even a conventional results page. With generative UI and An...
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Local Search Moves From Ranking Businesses to Calling Them: Availability Data Becomes an AI Conversion Signal
Google is pushing Local Search beyond ranking nearby businesses and toward completing the work that traditionally happened after the click. Search is expanding its agentic booking....
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Google Search Is Becoming a Persistent Monitoring Agent—Visibility Must Survive Continuous Retrieval, Not Just One SERP
Google is preparing to turn Search from a system that waits for a query into one that can keep searching after the user leaves. Its new information agents will operate in the backg...
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AI Overviews Become the Entrance to a Persistent AI Mode Journey—Changing Which Sources Win the Follow-Up Queries
Google has removed another boundary between the traditional search results page and conversational search. Users can ask a follow-up question directly from an AI Overview and conti...
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Google’s Search Box Stops Being a Keyword Field and Becomes a Multimodal AI Prompt Interface
Google is redesigning the most recognizable interface in web search around a new assumption: a search request no longer has to be a short string of keywords. Its new intelligent Se...
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Google Changes the Default Brain Behind AI Mode: Gemini 3.5 Flash Now Decides Which Sources and Answers Users See
Google has changed the model sitting behind one of the most consequential surfaces in modern Search. Gemini 3.5 Flash is now the default model in AI Mode for users globally, puttin...
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