Kagi updated its Search and Assistant products on August 21, 2026, adding a redesigned Stocks widget, expanded Assistant search tools, and new retention controls for temporary chats. The Stocks widget now supports exchange-traded funds alongside individual stocks, includes price charts, and animates transitions between selected time windows. Kagi says the widget will appear more often in relevant searches. Search users can also enable a setting that automatically removes paywalled links from results. Kagi Assistant now renders links, Markdown, and LaTeX in user messages. Users can search across all conversation threads, sort results by recency or alphabetically, and use “/” to begin filtering by folder. Temporary Assistant threads can be retained for 24 hours, seven days, or 30 days. The update also includes bulk export of Assistant chats, controls for prompt submission behavior, expandable thinking sections, code-fence syntax highlighting, and protections intended to prevent search-engine indexing of shared Assistant threads. Additional fixes cover Search lenses, shortcuts, Quick Answer source handling, URL behavior, mobile navigation, web-search toggle persistence, speech-to-text pauses on Android, iOS login, and Kagi Translate extension and preset issues.

The Agentic Web Index reports that bot traffic has decreased by 2% compared to the previous 90 days, while AI-related bot traffic has increased by 11%. AI agents utilize web browsers to autonomously complete complex tasks, while AI assistants fetch website content in response to user prompts.

Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Kinney Drugs is scaling back its AI assistant after customers reported incoherent calls, wrong dosages, and missed prescription notifications. Kinney Drugs first introduced Burt, an AI assistant named after the pharmacy chain’s founder, back in May. The bot’s role was to communicate with patie...

Programming remains a cognitively demanding task, relying on memory and complex mental models. AI-powered coding assistants are altering the nature of these challenges rather than simplifying programming.

YouTube Studio features an AI assistant called Ask Studio that summarizes viewer comments. If a comment contains instructions, the AI may execute actions based on those instructions, raising concerns about privacy and security.

Hackmyclaw.com allows users to email Fiu, an OpenClaw assistant, in an attempt to extract data from a secrets.env file. Despite receiving over 6,000 emails from more than 2,000 users, the sensitive information remained secure.

Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at its annual Build developer conference, presenting a vision for a new ecosystem of hardware devices. This development comes in the wake of Apple's unsuccessful 2024 launch of Apple Intelligence and an updated Siri.

Microsoft's internal strategy for its new AI assistant, Scout, aims to create user addiction before expanding its features. Scout, previously known as ClawPilot, has been in pilot testing since March as part of Project Lobster.

Kapa.ai indexes millions of images, including screenshots and diagrams, to enhance AI assistants that answer technical questions. Images are processed in a way that they are not sent to the model at query time, optimizing their utility in the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline.

Nginx logs reveal that "AI traffic" can indicate either provider-side fetching or referral traffic. The logs provide measurable data on whether AI assistants fetch live pages or rely on previously indexed information.