Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is building its own artificial intelligence-powered search engine in order to reduce its dependence on answers from Google and Bing, The Information reported on Monday ...

People aren’t friending each other as much on Facebook these days. The iPhone might not feel necessary in a decade. And Google searches on one of the world’s most popular smartphones are declining.

Meta is reportedly working on an AI-powered search engine that will crawl the web for information, a move that could disrupt how advertising is sold online. Currently, Meta’s AI chatbot gets ...