Vol. XVI · No. 281Thursday 8 October 2026World Edition

The NewsRupt

AI search

How answer engines retrieve, select and cite — and what can honestly be measured about it.

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How do AI systems choose which sources to cite?AI answer systems generally run a search, retrieve a set of candidate pages, select passages that appear to answer the question, and generate an answer citing the pages the passages came from. Selection therefore favours…