Google announced on 21 August 2025 that its AI Mode search feature, previously available only in the United States, the United Kingdom and India, is now being rolled out to 180 additional countries and territories in English. The company also plans to extend the feature to more languages and regions
DuckDuckGo’s $9.99-per-month subscription now provides access to the most advanced AI models via its Duck.ai chatbot, including GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4 and Llama Maverick. The free plan remains available, but only with older models such as GPT-4o mini or Claude 3.5 Haiku. The company stressed that
The introduction of Google's AI Overviews in early 2025 has significantly reduced traffic to publisher websites, raising serious concerns about the sustainability of digital media companies. Users are increasingly less likely to click through to publishers' sites as they receive the information they seek directly on Google&
Google Introduces New AI Feature Providing Voice-Based Summaries of Search Results, Expanding the Search Labs Experimental Platform Google launched testing of Audio Overviews on its Search Labs platform on June 13, 2025, allowing users to listen to brief voice summaries of search results rather than reading them on screen. This
Perplexity AI processed 780 million queries in May 2025, representing a 20% month-over-month growth rate. CEO Aravind Srinivas announced at the Bloomberg Tech Summit on June 5, 2025, that at this growth rate, the company could reach one billion queries per week within a year, which would amount to 52
Opera announced Opera Neon on May 28th, 2025, a new AI browser designed to perform tasks on users' behalf, including shopping, filling out forms, and coding. The Oslo-based Norwegian company describes it as the first "AI agentic browser" that transforms user intent into action, representing years of
Netflix began testing a new artificial intelligence-powered search engine in April 2025, based on OpenAI's technology. As Bloomberg announced on 13 April 2025, the streaming giant has made this new tool available only to certain subscribers for now, who must explicitly opt in to use the feature. The
