Tag: Search

Shopify boosts its commerce platform with ‘Magic’ image editor and other AI enhancements

Shopify has just unveiled over 100 new updates to its commerce platform, with artificial intelligence emerging as a key theme. The company introduced new AI-powered capabilities aimed at helping merchants work smarter, sell more, and create better customer experiences. The headline feature is Shopify Magic, which applies different AI models to assist merchants in a […]

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Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations

Generative AI isn’t just for making content — it’s also here to upend web browsing. That’s according to two privacy-focused web browser startups, Arc and Brave, both of which this week announced new generative AI powered features for their browsers. Arc adds Perplexity as a default browser search bar option Arc, the minimalistic browser created […]

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Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck

Image: NurPhoto / Contributor via Getty Images Google is terminating its contract with Appen, a third-party company responsible for training its search algorithm, the contractor said in a statement to investors on Monday. The company said that Google’s contracts brought in $82.8 million and accounted for 26 percent of its revenue. The decision will ultimately impact over 2,000 […]

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Perplexity AI raises $74M to take on Google and Microsoft Bing with AI-native search

Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Today, California-based Perplexity AI, the year-old startup looking to reinvent knowledge discovery with an AI-native search engine, announced it has raised $73.6 million in a series B round of funding. The investment comes from […]

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