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November 13, 2026

Ask

• CHANGE: When a long document in Files was too big to include whole in an answer, Ask kept only its opening pages, so the part that answered the question was often cut off. Ask now keeps the opening plus the passages that best match the question, in the order they appear in the document.
• CHANGE: A question that quoted a file's title, such as "it's in Files, the one titled "2023 consensus"", was treated as a search-box query and matched nothing. Only a quoted phrase with a few keywords around it is now treated that way; a sentence that quotes a title is treated as a question.
• CHANGE: Ask's icon in the sidebar and page header was a paper airplane, the same icon used for sending a question and for sending messages, so it was easy to confuse with a Send button. Ask now has its own sparkles icon; the paper airplane is still used for sending. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41571
• CHANGE: When a question matched many files, every file got the same share of the space for the answer, so the one document that answered it could be cut short beside dozens of files that only mentioned the same words. Ask now picks the files that best answer the question, judging them by their folder, name and opening text rather than by how often they repeat the question's words, puts them first, and gives them up to half the space, enough for a long paper to go in whole.

October 30, 2026

Ask

• CHANGE: Searching a group's Files section was slow when the group had large documents, often adding several seconds before Ask could start answering. Ask now searches files much faster.
• CHANGE: Ask only read the first few pages of a long document, so when the answer was further into a long PDF, it said it couldn't find it. When there's room, Ask now reads more of long documents.

October 16, 2026

Ask

• BUGFIX: In Ask, after you thanked it and then asked a follow-up, the answer ended with "Nothing in this group's archive matched your search" even though it had answered from the earlier results. The thank-you turn stored no search results, and the follow-up reused that empty set. Follow-ups now reuse the results of the last answer that had any, and the no-results note is only added when a search actually ran. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/177
• BUGFIX: In Ask, a long request that contained a capitalized AND, such as "find all files whose titles include X AND whose content includes Y", was treated as search-engine syntax and sent to the search engine as a literal query, so every word had to match and nothing was found. Only short queries are now treated as search syntax; longer requests are read as questions. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/177
• CHANGE: When you ask Ask to look only in the Files section, it now considers up to 50 matching files instead of 10, so lists of files are less likely to be cut short. Punctuation typed inside quotes, like "pathology," is no longer treated as part of the quoted word. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/177
• CHANGE: Ask now reads the rest of the discussion around each message it finds, not just the message that matched your words, since the answer to a question is usually in the replies. It also ranks what it found before writing, so the most relevant messages are read first.
• CHANGE: Ask answers now cite their sources with numbered links, and every link is checked against the sources Ask actually read before the answer is shown, so a link can no longer point at something that wasn't there. Each answer ends with a Sources list naming the cited messages, wiki pages, and files, with their senders and dates.
• BUGFIX: A very large message or file among Ask's search results could stop every result after it from being read. Each document is now limited to a reasonable length, and one that doesn't fit no longer blocks the rest.
• BUGFIX: Ask answers that took longer than a minute to generate caused the connection to drop and reconnect as soon as the answer arrived.
• BUGFIX: After an Ask question failed, the Post to group button on later answers in the same session could post the wrong answer or fail until the page was reloaded.
• CHANGE: Follow-up questions in Ask make one call to decide whether a new search is needed and what to search for, instead of two, so they start faster.
• CHANGE: Ask questions are limited to 4,000 characters.
• INTERNAL: Ask answers are now cleaned the same way as other member content before being shown. The Ask conversation is sent to the answering model as separate turns rather than one transcript, and stored conversations keep only the newest answer's search results, so long chats no longer grow without bound. Each stage of answering (search, ranking, answer) now logs how long it took.

October 9, 2026

Ask

• CHANGE: In Ask, the question box stays in place while an answer is written, and screen readers are told when Ask is thinking, when the answer is ready, and if there's an error. The Copy and Post to Group buttons now have names.