The news: DuckDuckGo launched AI-generated answers within its search engine queries—similar to Google’s AI Overviews but with opt-out choices and more customization options for users.

• The privacy-focused search engine lets users decide how often they see the AI tool in their results: often, sometimes, on-demand, or never.
• DuckDuckGo’s AI chatbot, called Duck.ai, uses models from OpenAI, Mistral, Meta, and Anthropic but notably has agreements to ensure no user data is pulled for training.