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People who use AI text-to-image generator like ChatGPT or Google Gemini often encounter a maddening problem: the image looks…
After months of bombarding mathematicians with a relentless stream of AI-generated results, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he…
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Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can…
I might finally buy an iPhone now that Apple has been taken down a peg.
We are all still arguing about whether our chats get used for training, but that's the small comfortable version of the question…
Epoch AI researchers say the widely available AI model GLM 5.3 turned public security fixes into working exploits before updates…
AI summary A weekly search recap reported two bouts of Google ranking volatility and said AI Overviews now appear on more than 80% of Google queries. A small study put the click-through rate for AI Overviews and AI Mode at 0.9%. Google is expanding AI Mode ads to more countries, testing sponsored products mixed with organic ones, and said AI Mode ads currently earn less than traditional search ads. In earnings, Google's ad revenue rose 10.5% with total revenue up 25%, while Bing ad revenue grew 12% and overall revenue 19%.
AI summary Cyrus Shepard blocked a site from appearing in Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode using the generative AI opt-out controls, then compared traffic data. He estimated that impressions in those AI features produced a click-through rate of roughly 0.9%, and they made up about 8% of the site's total impressions. While the site was excluded, clicks on its regular organic results also fell, which Shepard described as a possible "Search SERP Halo Effect". He acknowledged the case study was small, and AI Overviews kept appearing on the results pages throughout the test.
Microsoft is now showing ads within the Bing AI Overviews powered by Copilot. I don't think I've seen ads within the AI responses…
AI summary Google and Bing have each added a Halloween-themed surprise to their search results for the holiday. Searching for Halloween on Google prompts users to pick a costume with help from AI Mode. On Bing, a ghost drifts across the results page and bursts into candy when tapped.
AI summary In an interview on the Odys Podcast, Google's Gary Illyes said AI is behind the growing problem of rogue crawlers posing as Googlebot, as firms hunt for content to train their models. He noted that faking a crawler's user-agent takes about 30 seconds, and his honeypots caught such requests arriving from IP addresses with no link to Google. Illyes advised site owners to check IP ranges and reverse DNS, and called robots.txt a suggestion, not a security tool. He also discussed Web Bot Auth, which relies on cryptographically signed requests, and an early idea for crawler reputation scores.
AI summary Google appears to have dropped the utm_source=gemini tag it began adding to cited links in Gemini responses in early September, with the tags disappearing around September 28. Natzir shared a chart showing the tagged traffic rising over three weeks before vanishing abruptly. Desktop Gemini still sends gemini.google.com referrer data, and those visits held steady, while the iOS app sends no referrer, so its traffic shows as Direct in GA4. Google's John Mueller said on Reddit he had noticed the tags roughly a month earlier.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, was midway through defending her record during the final debate of the midterms when an…
Row-Bot works toward a goal across several turns, without being prompted each time. The goal is to prepare a small shop's autumn…
I rarely write my own code these days. I’m building cool applications but I barely remember how the real magic works. I’m…
I would expect products to evolve at somewhat same pace. Claude feels like it is evolving into a more capable thinking and…
AI summary Brodie Clark reported on X and LinkedIn that Google appears to have restored the num=100 URL parameter, which shows 100 results on one page, at least partially. He said he spotted it in a URL after clicking a knowledge panel result and saw 99 organic listings. Google had removed the option in September 2025 as part of efforts to stop crawlers from scraping its results, and attempts to reproduce the behavior across several browsers failed. Clark also said SERP Lens data shows /goto links getting around earlier workarounds.
OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating…
Although AI lets us do much more, I feel considerably more tired than before. We need to keep track of many things happening in…
Its just such a ridiculous idea to charge someone to teach them how to use a tool that can explain itself.
OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to…
The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally…
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