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AI SEARCH AGENTS NEED TO ASK, NOT ASSUME
AI search agents don't fail at finding information—they fail at asking clarifying questions when queries are ambiguous. A new benchmark reveals that models repeatedly searching instead of requesting user clarification perform worse than random guessing.
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AI search agents rarely fail at multi-step research because of the search itself. Their real problem is not asking the u…