Google’s Opal AI tool for making no-code apps is now widely available

Google is taking its no-code AI app builder, Opal, global by expanding to more than 160 countries. The tool lets anyone build ...

You can browse Apple’s App Store on web from any device

Apple finally put the App Store where the rest of the internet lives: the web. You can now scroll categories, search apps, ...

Snap's new AI search engine will be powered by Perplexity

Snap has signed a $400 million deal with Perplexity to use its AI search engine in Snapchat, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Under the terms of the agreement, Perplexity will reportedly pay Snap a ...

What the $400 million Snap-Perplexity deal means for users

Snap inked a $400 million deal with Perplexity to launch an AI-powered search engine. Snap's CEO said this would make AI more ...
MacTech

Apple will apparently allow iPhone uses in Safari to change the default search engine

A Reddit report says Apple will allow iPhone uses in Japan to choose a search engine besides Google after installing iOS 26.2 ...

iOS 26.2 Adds Safari Search Engine Choice Screen in Japan Ahead of New Law

With iOS 26.2, Apple is adding a prompt that allows iPhone users in Japan to select a preferred search engine. As noted on ...
9to5Mac

Firefox officially adds Perplexity as a search engine option on the desktop

Following a limited test earlier this year, Mozilla is now adding Perplexity AI as a default search engine option. Here’s how it works. In a new blog post, Mozilla confirmed the broader rollout of ...
TechSpot

MetaGraph is like Google for DNA, just more compressed and jam-packed with genomic data

In context: Thanks to improvements in DNA sequencing techniques, the number of public repositories containing genetic data is growing at a significant pace. Zurich researchers have been working on a ...
Scientific American

New DNA Search Engine Brings Order to Biology’s Big Data

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...
Searchenginejournal.com

OpenAI Launches Sora iOS App Alongside Sora 2 Video Model

OpenAI has launched the Sora app on iOS, rolling out with invite-based access. The app uses the new Sora 2 model for AI-generated video. OpenAI introduced Sora 2 and an invite-based Sora iOS app. The ...
Android Authority

Google is quietly testing a better app launch shortcut for the Pixel Launcher

Currently, when you search for an app on the Pixel Launcher, tapping the bottom-right keyboard button searches the app’s name on Google Search. Some users are seeing that keyboard button change to an ...
InfoWorld

From answer engine to infrastructure: Perplexity launches Search API for developers

The new Search API is the latest in a series of rollouts as Perplexity angles to position itself as a leader in the nascent AI-powered search engine space. AI-powered search capabilities are ...