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.

DeepSeek’s ¥105.5bn Round: Nearly 30 Investors Were Asked What Data They Could Bring, as Its Search API Billing Kicks In

Weekly Roundup 26 October – 1 November 2026: China’s Search-API Price War, Alice AI Answers 44% of Yandex Queries and Naver Makes Room for More Ads

Brave bx402: Pay-Per-Search for AI Agents at $0.005 a Query in Stablecoins, No API Key, and Now Its Own Payment Facilitator

DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant and Yahoo Tell the CMA Play Store Downloads Are the Wrong Way to Pick Google Choice Screen Winners

Cohere Says Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Tried to Upload a File to a Beijing Bucket After Saying It Wouldn’t Use Tools

Weekly Roundup 19–25 October 2026: DeepSeek and Tencent Sell Search to Machines, Yandex Counts the Damage and Naver Rebuilds Its Ad Stack

A Beginner’s Guide to Qwen and Qwen Agents

DeepSeek Closes a ¥100bn ($15bn) Round Led by CATL and Tencent at a ~$74bn Valuation as a Shanghai IPO Comes Into View

How Asia’s Search Engines Built Their Own AI Answers: Dan Taylor’s Asia SEO Summit Talk Previewed

DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, the Engine That Serves Its Answers — Deterministic Output, Huawei Ascend Support and Some Missing Parts