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DuckDuckGo’s No-AI Search Push, Alphabet’s $80 Billion AI Buildout, and Bias in Multimodal AI Judges | UpNext AI – June 2, 2026
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- Jun 2, 2026
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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 perceptual judgment bias in multimodal LLM-as-a-judge systems when images and text conflict. - GlobalData says autonomous AI agents are exposing the limits of traditional GUI-driven software workflows. - Google details how it used Gemini and other AI tools to help produce Google I/O 2026. - Nvidia used GTC Taipei to introduce new physical-AI offerings for robots, autonomous vehicles, and video systems. - Reporting highlighted by Simon Willison says attackers were able to use Meta’s AI support flow in an Instagram account takeover scenario. Sources: - https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/duckduckgo-makes-its-no-ai-search-engine-easier-to-access-as-its-traffic-booms/ - https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/alphabet-plans-to-raise-80-billion-to-pay-for-ai-buildout/ - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02578v1 - https://fudzilla.com/116615-2 - https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/io-2026-google-ai/ - https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-bets-big-on-physical-ai-at-gtc-taipei-with-a-new-world-model-driving-brain-and-open-humanoid-robot/ - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/1/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai/#atom-everything