Google Flights launches 'Flight Deals', an AI-powered search tool that finds the best travel bargains by understanding queries like 'ski trip to a world-class resort', now available in the U.S., Canada, and India.
Profound, a startup aiming to optimize brand visibility in AI search, secures $35 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia, positioning itself as a pioneer in addressing post-SEO challenges as AI chatbots reshape the search landscape, offering solutions to monitor and optimize content for AI models.
Cloudflare alleges AI startup Perplexity evades web crawling blocks on thousands of domains by changing its bots' user agents and network identities, resulting in millions of unauthorized requests daily.
Apple launches an 'Answers, Knowledge, and Information' team to develop a ChatGPT-like system that crawls the web and provides direct answers, aiming to enhance its AI capabilities with potential integration into Siri and other products.
Google launches AI-powered image and PDF search, an interactive Canvas for creating AI-assisted study guides and trip plans, and the ability to provide live video input for AI analysis of real-world scenes through the camera.
Google launches AI-powered virtual try-on tool allowing users to visualize clothing on themselves, set price alerts, and get shoppable outfit and room inspiration through AI-generated images based on queries.
Google's AI summaries discourage users from clicking source links, as they prefer browsing over visiting cited websites like Wikipedia, YouTube, and Reddit, with government sites appearing more frequently than in regular searches.
ChatGPT surges with over 2.5 billion daily requests, 330 million from US users, posing a major threat to Google's search dominance as OpenAI prepares to release an AI-powered web browser.
AI search startup Perplexity partners with telecom giant Bharti Airtel to offer free $200 Pro subscriptions to 360 million users in India, where downloads have surged 600% year-over-year as the company aggressively expands into its largest market by user count.
OpenAI announces plans to monetize its AI chatbot ChatGPT by integrating an eCommerce checkout system, allowing sellers to complete transactions within the platform and paying a commission to OpenAI on sales made through ChatGPT.