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Perplexity AI partners with SheerID to offer 264M students globally 2 years of free Pro membership ($20/month value). SheerID verifies student status via 200K data sources in 190 countries within 3 minutes, preventing fraud. 86% US students use AI tools, driving demand for academic integrity-focused services. Perplexity emphasizes accuracy and data privacy, gaining academic favor. SheerID delivers 337% ROI for clients.....

xAI launches Grok Voice for Web with 5 voice options (Ara/Rex/Eve/Sal/Gork) and screen sharing, expanding from mobile to web for better office use. Despite early bugs, unique features give it a competitive edge. Basic functions are free; premium may require subscription. Future plans include coding models and video capabilities.....

On July 15, Mita AI Search announced the completion of a new iteration of its 'Deep Research' module and its official public beta launch, becoming the first search service in China that is freely open to the public and features multi-turn reasoning chain visualization. The upgraded system adopts a segmented reinforcement learning strategy, breaking down the originally computationally intensive 'Deep Research' tasks into multiple sub-tasks, maintaining result accuracy while reducing operational costs to a level that allows for public free access. It performs particularly well in retrieving and reasoning with Chinese corpus.

Google's Gemini CLI adds audio/video processing, Markdown support & privacy features. With 85 improvements by 51 contributors, it now supports VSCodium/Neovim, upgraded to Ink6/React19, offering free million-token access under Apache2.0 license.....

The smart assistant Yuanbao announced today a major upgrade to its core search function, introducing the new feature 'More Can Be Searched with Just One Phrase.' Now, users only need to ask a simple question, and Yuanbao will intelligently match and display content from images and video accounts, making information access more abundant and intuitive than ever before. In the past, Yuanbao could easily handle daily needs such as weather inquiries, stock price checks, and location searches. This upgrade takes Yuanbao's intelligent search capabilities to a new level. Whether you want to learn a new skill or solve a small problem in life, Yuanbao can integrate text

The newly launched AI search function in WeChat has attracted widespread attention due to allegations of leaking personal privacy. Recently, many users reported on social platforms that this function can generate a personal resume with a name hyperlink in one click, causing concerns about privacy security among users. According to user feedback, the controversy surrounding WeChat AI Search mainly focuses on its automatic identification mechanism. When users encounter names in WeChat official account articles, the system automatically converts the name into a blue hyperlink. Clicking this link will force the AI system to generate a detailed information page containing personal resume, as well as display all

At the recent Baidu AI Day open day, Baidu Search announced its largest-scale overhaul in a decade. This reform covered the search box, search results page, and the entire search ecosystem. This move is an active transformation by Baidu to actively adapt to industry development trends and expand the boundaries of search capabilities. The upgraded Baidu Search box is now called the 'Smart Box,' significantly enhancing its input capabilities, supporting text input of over a thousand characters. At the same time, various input methods such as photography, voice, and video have been comprehensively improved and can directly access AI writing and AI image creation.

Recently, ERGO Innovation Lab and ECODYNAMICS conducted a study focusing on how insurance-related content is displayed in AI-driven search. The research analyzed over 33,000 AI search results and 600 websites, exploring the preferences of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT when processing this content. The study found that LLMs tend to prioritize content that is easy to read, well-structured, and trustworthy, which closely aligns with traditional SEO strategies.

AIbase Report — Features and Application Scenarios Offerwall allows publishers to provide website readers with various ways to access content, including small payments, participating in surveys, watching ads, etc. Publishers can also add custom options, such as subscribing to newsletters. The tool is now available for free in Google Ad Manager and uses AI intelligence to decide when to display it to visitors, maximizing engagement and revenue. After more than a year of testing, 1,000 publishers have participated in the trial. Google has partnered with third parties

OpenAI announced the official opening of API access to its deep research models, providing developers with a powerful set of tools including automatic web search, data analysis, MCP (Model Communication Protocol), and code execution. The models opened include the deep research versions of o3 and o4-mini, which have already been used in ChatGPT. Now, developers can directly call these models via API. These models are particularly suitable for complex tasks that require obtaining the latest information and performing advanced reasoning. In terms of function expansion, o3,

Xiaomi officially launched its next-generation personal smart device - Xiaomi AI Glasses, which has attracted widespread attention due to its innovative payment function. With the increasing popularity of mobile payments, Xiaomi AI Glasses are equipped with the "Alipay Look-and-Pay" feature, offering users a new payment option when their hands are busy or when using a phone is inconvenient. When users need to pay, they can complete the scanning and payment just by using the glasses, which is both secure and convenient.