I remember 1996 like it was yesterday. Banner ads were booming, and AltaVista was the coolest search engine around. The internet was flipping business models upside down, unlocking opportunities no ...

The problem with working in a hyper-competitive industry is that there’s maximum motivation to roll out new features, even when those features aren’t ready yet or adequately tested. OpenAI received a ...

ChatGPT's new search function—that pulls real-time information from the web—positions it as a direct competitor to established search engines like Google. Released on October 31, ChatGPT search is ...

The tool puts OpenAI squarely in competition with the search giants and will help fuel its next generation of AI agents ChatGPT can now search the web for up-to-date answers to a user’s queries, ...

An overview of the most widely used search platforms in the world which is based on verified market share data, showing how ...

Developers should act before governments fall back on blunt tools. In late October, News Corp filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, a popular AI search engine. At first glance, this might seem ...

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...

It launches today for paid subscribers and will expand to free, enterprise, and education users in the coming weeks. It launches today for paid subscribers and will expand to free, enterprise, and ...

This is the opening chapter of “The Last Click: How AI Agents Are Rewiring the Internet’s Attention Economy,” a series about how AI is changing the web. The email arrived at 3:47 a.m., marked urgent.

Diamonds aren’t the only thing that lasts forever. The internet keeps everything you’ve ever said, posted, liked, or done while visiting, and it sells it ...

Through the looking glass: Companies involved in generative AI, like Google and OpenAI, are envisioning a future where users delegate queries and tasks to chatbots or GenAI agents instead of manually ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...