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.

China Put RMB250 Billion Into AI in H1 2026, Mostly Into Robots. The US Put $217 Billion Into Two Model Labs

US Orders Federal Agencies to Rip Out DeepSeek — Including Third-Party Tools Built on It, Days After Its Search API Launch

Seznam AI Now Has Hundreds of Thousands of Weekly Users — and Is Wiring In Sreality, With Mapy.com and Sauto Next

DeepSeek Opens Its In-House Search Engine to Developers at $0.75 per 1,000 Queries — With a Public ‘Authority’ Score and a GEO-Manipulation Filter

Weekly Roundup 12–18 October 2026: Yandex’s SEO Tools Come Back Last, China Fines GEO Vendors and Naver Rebuilds Its Results

DeepSeek Goes Down for Nearly Five Hours, Then Refunds a Full Week of Usage as Credit

Startpage Says Bots Are Now 70% of Its Traffic — Hence the Proof-of-Work Checks and Sign-In Prompts

151 Apps Including WeChat, Taobao, Qwen and DeepSeek Opt Out of ByteDance’s Doubao Phone Agent — China’s robots.txt for AI Agents Is Here

Naver’s AI Briefing Cites Naver Blog 46.5% of the Time — ChatGPT and Gemini Cite It Zero Times, Study Finds

Alibaba’s “Qwen Go!” Agent Haggles Over Flight Refunds and Works Taobao Price Protection — Your Website Isn’t in the Loop