Arc Search’s AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails

Warning: This article touches on disturbing topics including violent crime and suicide. Users of AI products have been known to expend tons of effort finding and exploiting loopholes that allow them to generate disturbing content. But there weren’t any loopholes in one new AI product, because there weren’t any restrictions. “Really appreciate you flagging this … Read more

Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired

Google has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire … Read more

Arms On With Google Search’s Reply to ChatGPT

Final weekend, I turned to Google Seek for assist determining what number of stamps I wanted to placed on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I used to be sending a duplicate of the most recent concern of WIRED!). It’s the precise form of query that I hoped Google Search’s new generative AI characteristic, which … Read more