AI News

AI News gathers cross-engine developments in generative search, answer engines, and AI-assisted discovery — beyond any single market. We follow how Google competitors and regional engines ship AI Overviews-style experiences, chat search, multimodal results, and retrieval changes that alter what SEO teams measure.

Pieces here connect model launches, product UI shifts, and ranking or citation behaviour to practical international SEO questions: when does an AI answer replace a blue link, which sources get cited, and how do non-Google engines diverge? Editorial coverage for search marketers watching AI-in-SEO globally, not hype roundups.

Yahoo Is the First Licensee of the Internet Licensing Collective: Publishers Get Paid When Scout Uses, and Cites, Their Content

Not-Google 2026 Recap: A 20-Minute Live Look at 8 Search Engines and 2027

2027 Predictions: Baidu, Yandex, Naver, Cốc Cốc, DeepSeek and Qwen

Brave Search Will Encrypt Every Result Link After Google’s ‘goto’ Change Pushed Scrapers Onto Its Index

Qwen4-Max Lands in Preview — on Alibaba’s Token Plan, With No Model Card and a 25 November Deadline

Yahoo Scout Exits Beta and Takes Over Yahoo Search: ‘Pivot Search’ Lets Users Flip Between AI Answers and Blue Links — Including in the UK and Europe

Qwen4’s ‘Next Week’ Has Come and Gone: Alibaba Posts a Zhuangzi Fish Instead of a Model

Tencent Quietly Opens Yuanbao Search at so.qq.com — and Sogou Keyword Searches Now Land There

89% of Claude’s Cited Pages Sit in Brave’s Top 20: What Peec’s Retrieval Tests Mean for Brave SEO

DeepSeek Harness Hits 1.54 Million Daily Users and 92 Trillion Tokens a Day, With a Plugin Marketplace on the Way