
OpenAI launches beta Business Hub profiles and agents in ChatGPT
Verified companies can publish profiles, launch a business agent, and see limited interaction metrics; in-chat checkout was retired in March.
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Verified companies can publish profiles, launch a business agent, and see limited interaction metrics; in-chat checkout was retired in March.

Schools can disable Gemini apps while keeping search active or turn off all AI products after educator backlash over the new opt-in policy.

Schools using Google K-12 tools cannot access Search without opting into AI like Gemini, prompting accusations of extortion from politicians.

Search revenue grew 12 percent while AI Mode queries grew strongly but at a lower monetization rate.

OpenAI reports ChatGPT now runs one-fifth as many search queries as Google; company sees visual AI interfaces as next step for search.

Blocking AI tools also means losing access to Google Search in education products.

Schools rejecting AI must lose Search access entirely; no separate Gemini toggle available.

The same questions get straight answers abroad, on a second try, and from Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude.
On Retro190, feeding verifier results into search lifts verified solvability from 51.1% to 62.6%.
The title says Drex reached that score using 12.6 search calls; the page body is only a cookie notice.
The captured page is only a cookie notice, so no release details beyond the title are available.
Restarting LLM research agents by forgetting search history improves discovery by up to 39 percent versus one agent.
Stateless Language Agents beat three research-agent frameworks at up to one billion tokens, using 84% fewer tokens on kernels.

An MIT Technology Review essay argues today's LLMs lack AlphaGo-style search and do not truly reason.

A federal judge dismissed Chegg and Penske antitrust suits over Google AI Overviews cutting publisher traffic.

A federal judge dismissed Chegg and Penske Media antitrust suits over traffic lost to Google AI Overviews.
StepCAD turns 3D meshes into executable CAD programs with an LLM policy and geometry-guided search, beating prior baselines.

Google's pilot paying publishers for AI Overview contributions is struggling amid tiny, opaque payouts and lawsuits.

A blogger says Google AI Overview offered empathy for a basketball meme instead of search links.
A search-aware reinforcement learning framework for query understanding in Roblox Game Search improves search quality by 8.9 points over SFT policy.
COMPASS combines search with learning-accelerated parallel sub-solvers for the Ordered Clustered TSP, scaling to 100K synthetic and 28.5K real e-commerce nodes.

Google now routes some Search results through opaque google.com/goto redirects, weakening hover-to-verify anti-phishing checks.

Google routes some search result links through encoded google.com/goto?url= redirects, breaking hover-to-verify link checks and raising scraping costs.

Google Search's AI Mode adds travel features: hotel booking, airfare tracking, and airline miles and rewards visibility.
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