AI Overviews Cut Organic Clicks 38%, Field Study Finds

A randomized field experiment found Google AI Overviews reduced organic clicks on triggered queries by 38%, while user ...

The Unexpected Ways AI Can Transform Surgery

The procedure was a milestone, showing that AI could work into the operating room—and not just as an assistant. But it also ...

Bringing a smartphone to a bank robbery? 4th Amendment issue hits Supreme Court

Police track down unidentified suspects through smartphone data. The Supreme Court will decide whether such 'groundbreaking' ...
Opinion

The Difficulty of the Search Question: More Thoughts on Chatrie

I have been posting on Chatrie v. United States, the Supreme Court's geofencing case to be argued on Monday. In this post, I wanted to talk a bit on why the search question is particularly hard. The ...
Search Engine Land

New Google TurboQuant algorithm improves vector search speed

Google says a new compression algorithm, called TurboQuant, can compress and search massive AI data sets with near-zero indexing time, potentially removing one of the biggest speed limits in modern ...
New York Post

Savannah Guthrie believes most of the ransom notes were sick money grabs — but two were likely genuine

“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie believes most of the ransom notes sent to her family after her mom, Nancy Guthrie, was kidnapped from her Arizona home were just sick fakes — but two were likely ...
Android

Android Perseus Malware Scans Your Personal Notes for Passwords

Perseus is a new Android malware that scans note-taking apps to steal passwords, recovery phrases, and sensitive data. It spreads through fake streaming apps outside the Play Store and abuses ...
The Conversation

Moral metrics: Are corporate algorithms becoming our new moral authorities?

You check your credit score before applying for an apartment. Your fitness watch tells you whether you slept well enough. A workplace dashboard measures your productivity. Parents can buy devices that ...
AOL

Absolute Batman Goes Full Death Note in #19 Variant Cover

The upcoming Absolute Batman #19 is paying tribute to one of the greatest anime of all time, Death Note, in its new variant cover. The new Absolute Batman issue is all set to drop on April 15, 2026, ...
VentureBeat

Databricks built a RAG agent it says can handle every kind of enterprise search

Most enterprise RAG pipelines are optimized for one search behavior. They fail silently on the others. A model trained to synthesize cross-document reports handles constraint-driven entity search ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

FILM NOTES: ‘Ben-Hur’ in 4K, plus real search for the lost Ark

The 1959 epic “Ben-Hur,” remastered in 4K, returns to big screens: ️ March 29: 2 p.m. at the Colonel Glenn 18 in Little Rock, the Towne Centre in Conway, the Harrison 8 in Harrison, the Texarkana 14 ...
The Aspen Times

Beyond the Algorithm: Aspen’s only star

Chef Barclay Dodge came to Aspen as a 14-year-old outsider with an accent, and over time he found both his home and his calling. Working his way through dish pits, back lines and long nights in the ...