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An experiment found that Perplexity AI search frequently cited low-view YouTube videos (some with affiliate links) in product answers, suggesting that AI visibility does not equal popularity and raising concerns about source quality.
A US federal appeals court sanctioned two lawyers for filing briefs with AI-made-up cases, underscoring the persistent issue of AI hallucinations in legal practice and the necessity of independent citation verification.
Tips on how to get cited in Google AI Overviews by analyzing keyword gaps using Outrank's free AI Overview Tracker.
OpenBioRQ is a new benchmark of 12,553 unsolved biomedical research questions that tests agentic models' ability to verify sources and avoid false citations. It reveals that current models often link to wrong papers and suffer from agentic collapse on hard questions.
This project adds an auditable academic research pipeline to Claude Code, including checkpoints such as citation verification and experiment claim alignment, ensuring the credibility of research outputs.
The author is building CLYCITE, a search engine that grounds answers in retrieved sources, provides citations, and publicly publishes its accuracy rates by category. They seek community feedback on whether a public accuracy dashboard and an ad-free subscription model would be valuable.
Tim O'Reilly discusses the challenges of integrating AI into scientific publishing, including hallucinated citations, propagation of retracted papers, and training on compromised literature, and calls for adapting existing scientific infrastructure for AI use.
Google unveils an autonomous research system that can search the web, reason across sources, use tools via MCP, generate charts, and produce cited reports.