News Roundup: From billion dollar investments to no AI search
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1. Users Are Voting Against AI Search What's actually going on? DuckDuckGo's ‘No AI’ search page tripled in traffic after Google's I/O overhaul replaced traditional results with AI-generated experiences and the numbers have held. Why exactly does that matter to you? Not everyone wants AI by default. When you remove the opt-out or make it hard to find, users leave. That's a product decision with real consequences, not just a backlash moment. What we, at CometChat, think about this: The lesson isn't that AI is unwanted - it's that control matters.