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This paper investigates authority bias in LLMs used as conversational search engines for academic paper recommendation, finding that LLMs show significant preference for papers based on authority signals like author prestige and citations, with debiasing only partially effective.
Disney is testing an AI-powered natural language search for Disney Plus that generates personalized recommendations, plus an AI-assisted ESPN Search chatbot for sports queries, as part of a broader streaming-industry push toward conversational discovery.
Google's AI Mode now lets users link and interact with apps like Instacart, Canva, and YouTube, allowing them to complete tasks such as adding groceries to cart, creating designs, and saving playlists directly within the conversational search experience.
Manticore Search 27.1.5 introduces built-in authentication, sharded tables, conversational search, and faster HNSW vector search, along with numerous fixes and improvements across replication, KNN, and more.
Facebook's new AI Mode turns its search bar into a conversational tool that mines public posts, Reels, and Marketplace data to answer questions, aiming to boost engagement and support subscription tiers, though critics raise privacy and accuracy concerns.