Google made AI Mode in Chrome available in the U.S. with a side-by-side browser layout and richer context input. Users can open web pages next to AI Mode, ask follow-up questions against the page and web, and add recent tabs, images, or PDFs into the same search flow.
Cloudflare is turning AutoRAG into AI Search, a retrieval primitive agents can create and query from Workers. The open beta adds BM25 plus vector search, built-in storage and index, metadata boosting, and cross-instance search with concrete free and paid limits.
Google is moving AI Mode deeper into Chrome instead of keeping it as a separate Search stop. The April 16 rollout opens pages side-by-side with AI Mode, lets users bring recent tabs, images, and PDFs into a query, and is now available in the U.S.
On April 10, 2026, Google said restaurant booking in AI Mode is expanding beyond the U.S. for the first time, adding eight markets. The move extends Google Search’s agentic reservation flow from a U.S. experiment into a broader international commerce surface.
Google said on March 26, 2026 that Search Live is expanding to every language and country where AI Mode is already available. The rollout reaches more than 200 countries and territories and uses Gemini 3.1 Flash Live to make search more conversational, voice-first, and camera-aware.
Google said on March 17, 2026 that Personal Intelligence is expanding in the U.S. across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and Gemini in Chrome. The feature connects services like Gmail and Google Photos so Google can answer with more user-specific shopping, travel, and troubleshooting help, and Google says it is available to free-tier users.
Perplexity said on March 11, 2026 that its new Agent API combines search, tool execution, and multi-model orchestration behind one managed runtime. The launch positions Perplexity less as a single-answer interface and more as infrastructure for production agent workflows.
A high-signal LocalLLaMA post introduced a free patent search engine that indexes 3.5 million US patents in a 74GB SQLite database, uses FTS5/BM25 for ranking, and runs Nemotron 9B locally for 100-tag classification and query expansion. The project is notable because it rejects vector-search defaults in favor of exact phrase matching and a deliberately simple deployment stack.
Google expanded Canvas in AI Mode to everyone in the U.S. in English. The update adds stronger support for drafting documents and building interactive tools directly in Search. Google says Canvas can generate side-panel prototypes using fresh web information and the Knowledge Graph.