DuckDuckGo’s No-AI Search Push, Alphabet’s $80 Billion AI Buildout, and Bias in Multimodal AI Judges | UpNext AI – June 2, 2026
Today on UpNext AI: DuckDuckGo leans into demand for AI-free search, Alphabet moves to raise $80 billion for AI infrastructure, and a new paper examines how multimodal AI judges can get distracted by the wrong cues.
Covered in this episode:
- DuckDuckGo launches Chrome and Firefox extensions to make its no-AI search experience easier to set as default, as TechCrunch reports traffic to that experience is rising.
- Alphabet says it plans to raise $80 billion to fund AI infrastructure and global compute, with demand reportedly exceeding available supply.
- Researchers propose a way to reduce…
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