Microsoft Web IQ Gives AI Agents Bing Grounding APIs

Microsoft announced Web IQ, a set of grounding APIs that connect AI agents to Bing's index. Pricing and general availability ...

Microsoft releases Web IQ, powered by Bing but designed for how AI-agents search

What is Web IQ. Web IQ is a suite of Microsoft’s AI-native grounding APIs built for the agentic era, for AI-agents work. Web ...
CNET

Microsoft Made a Bing for AI Agents

A suite of web APIs built for AI agents that helps them scour the web faster for search results is already being used by ...
Opinion

I found an easy way to automatically keep AI out of my search results - and it works in nearly every browser

You can add a custom search engine in your browser that excludes all AI results. I'll show you how to do it in every major browser.
USA Today

Native Florida rodent could go extinct, thanks to Burmese python

Burmese pythons, a prolific and invasive species of snake, could cause the extinction of an endangered rodent native to Florida. According to a recent paper, the populations of Key Largo woodrats and ...
Time

Google Shifts to AI Search, Heralding Major Change in How People Use the Internet

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TechCrunch

How to use Google’s new AI agents to go beyond your standard searches

At the Google I/O 2026 keynote, the tech giant revealed new agentic capabilities in Search, where users can create, customize, and manage multiple AI agents to stay updated on topics of interest. The ...
PCMag

I Went Into the Dark Web So You Don't Have To. Here's What's Actually Down There

When you hear "the dark web," you probably think of illegal, sordid activity, but that's not the whole picture. I don't recommend staying long, but these tips can help you explore the dark web using ...
Polygon

You can keep the first Mortal Kombat movie forever...but you'll have to use Bing

To celebrate Mortal Kombat 2's arrival in theaters, Warner Bros. and Microsoft are giving its 2021 predecessor away for free. There's just one downside: you'll have to use Bing for seven days straight ...
foxbaltimore

Key Bridge contract canceled: Gov. Wes Moore's 'fastest moving' claim tested

Maryland Transit Administration Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly assaulted an MTA bus operator back in January. Juvenile arrested in Columbia residential burglary: police A juvenile ...
CNET

Claude Can Connect to More Apps You Use Every Day

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
Morningstar

Octen Sets New Global Benchmark for Search Infrastructure; Launches World's Fastest Web Search API for the Agentic Era

Following a record-breaking sweep of global embedding leaderboards, Octen debuts its proprietary distributed search engine, achieving 60ms latency and 1M+ QPS to power search in the age of AI The ...