TL;DR: A new Search Engine Journal  report has revealed that AI assistants — including popular chatbots and voice tools — gave inaccurate or misleading responses in nearly half of tested news-related queries.  📰 The findings raise red flags about the reliability of AI as a news source. What Happened? Researchers tested hundreds of real-world news questions  using leading AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and others. Results showed that 45% of their answer