Amazon has plans to build a vault of data on every product sold anywhere on the internet, even products Amazon doesn't sell, and make the information available through its own site, according to Reuters.
Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.
The Web Search API in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gives agents current, cited web results signed with the AWS credentials they already use. In this post, build a daily dependency watcher as a LangGraph graph that researches package ecosystems in parallel, keeps its rules in code, and checks every finding against its cited sources.
Google is technically offering schools more choice but not the choices anyone wants.
Netflix's TV app is getting a new "AI Discover" tab where the company will show experimental, AI-powered features to help you find new shows and movies to watch. The first of these experiments surfaces content based around themes, like "Something Light," "Family Movie Night," or "Quick Watches."
In many circles, "Ask Chat" has replaced "Google it," and that's reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of the volume run through Google. Adam Fry, OpenAI's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, made the announcement at a press event on Monday.
Content from OpenAI's licensing partners appears to flow into ChatGPT through a dedicated pipeline that gives it priority over the rest of the web.
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Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn't working. The Aachen Regional Court just applied the exact same reasoning in a new case where Google's AI falsely attributed criminal offenses to a doctor that actually involved someone else.
Fine-tuning teaches a small search agent your tools and environment, giving it the reliability of a frontier model at lower latency and cost. In this post, we fine-tune an LLM-powered search agent with multi-turn reinforcement learning (MTRL) on Amazon SageMaker AI and share the gains we measured in retrieval quality and reliability.
Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock is limited to the model's knowledge cutoff without web search. In this post, we walk through connecting Claude Desktop to Web Search using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, with JWT-based inbound authentication through AWS IAM Identity Center and Amazon Cognito.
The court acknowledges AI search comes with consequences, but it's not an antitrust issue.
Google has launched a pilot program that pays publishers for their contributions to its AI-powered search features, according to a report from The Information. The pilot program reportedly includes around 100 publishers and comes as Google faces scrutiny over the impact of its AI features on web traffic.
Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations.
Condé Nast's editorial teams spent an average of 250 minutes per task searching a library of more than 140,000 videos using only titles and descriptions. Working with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, they built a multimodal video discovery solution on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Service that cut discovery time to under 2 minutes.