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.

Cốc Cốc Shows AI Answers on 80% Informational Searches, but Just 6% of Commercial Ones

Weekly Roundup: Drones Hit Yandex’s Biggest Data Centre, Alice Takes Ecommerce SERPs and Naver Locks Out Outside AI

Duck.ai Chat Sharing Is Live — and Every Share Page Ships With a Noindex

Yahoo Tests a Search Box Under Its AI Overview That Sends Searchers Straight Into Scout

Ecosia Drops Mistral for Qwen, GLM and Kimi — and Says It Halved Its AI Bill

DeepSeek Lines Up $12–15 Billion From Tencent, CATL and State Funds — China’s Biggest AI Answer Engine Is Heading for the Stock Market

Duck.ai Quietly Raises Its Age Bar to 18 and Makes Shared Chats Expire in 48 Hours

Yahoo Gives Scout a Homepage Button and Product Picks — the Answer Engine Is Becoming the Front Door

DeepSeek Harness Goes Desktop: China’s Open-Source Agent Wants Your Files Now — and Your Browser Next

Seznam Wants AI Agents Checking Out at Thousands of Czech E-Shops by Year-End — on Google’s Protocol