A recent study highlights significant issues with AI search engines handling news information. The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)'s digital news lab tested eight AI tools with real-time search capabilities, revealing alarming results: over 60% of news queries yielded inaccurate answers. The study found considerable variation in error rates across different AI platforms, with Grok3 exhibiting a 94% error rate and ChatGPT Search reaching 67%. Even paid versions, such as Perplexity,