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Baidu Search has achieved multi-Agent collaborative self-evolution through an online feedback loop of "retrieval—feedback—retraining," improving overall iteration efficiency by more than 80%. At the Baidu App product upgrade briefing on October 30, Baidu also upgraded its search AI API, priced as low as 4.9 yuan per thousand calls during the promotional period, lower than the DeepSeek search API; the API's content layer covers more than 80 languages and a high-quality index of hundreds of billio

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After Alphabet announced its third-quarter financial results, its stock price fell nearly 10%. The company disclosed that revenue generated by AI search is lower than that of traditional search, even though overall search business revenue grew 12% year-over-year to $63.25 billion. Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler said the slowdown in search business growth stems from the lower monetization capability of AI Mode. Company spending for the quarter reached $51.4 billion, about two-thirds of

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On October 29, Kakao open-sourced two embedding models on Hugging Face, Kanana-2-3b-embedding (3 billion parameters) and Kanana-2-1.3b-embedding (1.3 billion parameters), targeting personalized AI agents and RAG scenarios. Kakao said that in internal evaluations, the two models outperformed llama-nemotron-embed-1b-v2 and Qwen3-Embedding-4B of comparable scale in Korean retrieval performance, with comparable English performance and higher inference efficiency, while memory usage and inference spe

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After the initial US test, ads in Google Search's AI Mode are being added in 10 new markets: Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Singapore, and US users will also see so-called "multi-turn ads" in follow-up questions. Google says research shows users are relatively receptive to ads in AI Mode, that click-through rates for sponsored and organic product listing items are already similar, and stresses that these ads do not affect Google AI'

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Alphabet's market value fell from $3.97 trillion to $3.46 trillion on Thursday, with shares dropping nearly 13%, as the company disclosed that AI search summaries are affecting ad revenue. Total revenue for the quarter rose 25% year over year to $127.6 billion, and Google Cloud revenue grew 103% to nearly $31 billion, but profit fell 25% and free cash flow was negative by more than $9 billion. In the same week, Amazon shares fell 6% after hours, with free cash flow negative by $42 billion; Micro

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Alphabet's stock fell 12.6% in a single day, wiping out about $500 billion in market value, while Reddit's shares dropped 15% the same day; both companies pointed to the impact of AI search on traffic and ad monetization. Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler acknowledged that growing usage of AI Mode is actually weighing on revenue, because it monetizes less effectively than traditional search; Reddit, meanwhile, said traffic from search has declined noticeably, that fourth-quarter da

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After Alphabet released its earnings, its stock plunged more than 11% in a single day, wiping out about $500 billion in market value, because AI spending continues to devour cash flow, share buybacks fell to zero in the first nine months of 2026, and revenue growth in the core search business slowed from 16.8% in the second quarter to 12%. Google Cloud revenue doubled year over year to $30.7 billion, with its profit margin rising to 36.2%, but the shared AI research and development loss widened

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At its third-quarter earnings call, Reddit announced it will shift to a login-first experience to protect its data from AI scraping and to advance licensing partnerships with model developers. The company said search referral traffic in October fell by an average of more than 1 million visits per week, and warned that if the trend continues, daily active users could decline to the low double digits percentage-wise next quarter; over the same period, revenue grew 53% year over year to $895 millio

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Alphabet's third-quarter earnings fell short of expectations across the board, with search and other revenue up 12% year over year to about $63 billion, missing expectations for a second consecutive quarter, while search query volume growth was the highest in five years. Search revenue growth slowed from 19% in the first quarter to 17% in the second quarter and then to 12% this quarter, with the company citing exchange rates as the biggest factor. The stock fell about 13% on Thursday after the e

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Alphabet released its quarterly earnings report, with revenue up about 25% year over year to $127.6 billion, slightly below analyst expectations, while net profit fell about a quarter to nearly $26.2 billion; shares fell about 9% after the report was released. Search advertising revenue rose about 12% year over year to $63.35 billion, below analysts' expectation of about $65 billion; Google manager Philipp Schindler said ad monetization efficiency in AI Mode remains lower than in traditional sea

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Google's third-quarter search revenue grew about 12%, below analysts' expectation of 15%, and some investors believe the problem of AI search queries growing fast but having low monetization capacity is beginning to show. Executive Philipp Schindler said on the earnings call that the strong growth of AI Mode queries affected revenue due to the lower level of monetization. In the same period, cloud business revenue grew 103% year over year to $30.7 billion, and the Gemini app reached 1 billion us

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Alphabet's quarterly revenue was $127.6 billion, up 25% year-over-year, but earnings per share of $2.12 fell short of the expected approximately $3.01, and the stock fell more than 10% after hours. Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler said that AI Mode's monetization capability per query is lower than traditional search, which is one of the reasons why search revenue growth slowed from 17% to 12%. Capital expenditures this quarter reached $51.4 billion, free cash flow was negative $9.1 billi

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At Alphabet's Q3 earnings call, Google announced it would expand ads in AI Mode to international markets and launch multi-turn conversational ads. Alphabet's quarterly revenue was $127.6 billion, up 25% year over year, but search ad revenue growth slowed from 19% in Q1 and 17% in Q2 to 12%, and the stock fell 8% after the earnings report. Google says the click-through rate on sponsored product listings in AI Mode is now comparable to organic results, and the average AI Mode query is 3 times long

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Google has released the Connected Apps Platform, allowing enterprises and developers to submit their own apps for integration with Gemini and Google Search, and to choose to launch on only one or both. The platform is currently available in beta preview to US developers; after launch, it will allow tracking of traffic, latency, and error rates, while retaining brand identity and verified accounts. Gemini already has more than 50 Connected Apps, including partners such as Adobe, Experian, Localiz

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TinyFish released two technical guides: one defines a production-grade agent search architecture, and the other summarizes lessons from building a deep research system. The architecture is built on four web primitives—TinySearch, TinyFetch, TinyBrowser, and TinyAgent—and runs a seven-stage control loop around a foundation model, covering task definition, retrieval planning, tool routing, evidence evaluation, and failure retry. In OpenBenchmarks tests with a fixed gpt-5.6-sol model and 100 tasks,

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