Following Microsoft, DuckDuckGo is now tapping OpenAI's ChatGPT technology to streamline its search engine. DuckAssist is a free feature that can pop up when you make a query on the DuckDuckGo search engine. By tapping AI algorithms, DuckAssist can offer a concise answer to your query at the top of the search page, removing the need to scroll through search results and visit a third-party website to find the answer. The approach could kill off traditional search results, like Microsoft is starting to do with the ChatGPT-powered Bing. But for now, DuckAssist's scope has been confined to only citing content from encyclopedia sites Wikipedia and Brittanica.

Microsoft could soon get a return on its $1 billion investment in OpenAI, creator of the ChatGPT chatbot, which gives humanlike text answers to questions. Microsoft is preparing to launch a version of its Bing search engine that uses the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT to answer some ...