Microsoft unveiled \'Web IQ\', a search engine designed specifically for AI agents, at its Build 2026 conference. Unlike traditional search engines that rank results for people, Web IQ provides results in a compressed format that AI agents can quickly process while using fewer tokens. Microsoft executive Jordi Ribas said it was redesigned from scratch using Bing technology built over 20 years. Microsoft said it returns results in 165 milliseconds or less in 95 percent of cases and has been used in Copilot and OpenAI\'s ChatGPT.

AWS has overhauled the architecture of OpenSearch Serverless, a managed search and vector engine, to account for the spread of AI agents. Tia White, AWS head of OpenSearch, said 97 percent of OpenSearch Serverless was rebuilt from scratch because the previous serverless architecture could not handle irregular AI agent usage patterns. AWS separated storage and compute, introduced a new in-house storage structure and said autoscaling is now 20 times faster, delivering up to 60 percent cost savings.