OpenAI is testing a new ad format in ChatGPT called Sponsored Agents, which "let people start a conversation with a business-sponsored agent after clicking an ad in ChatGPT," the company wrote. Google…
Google has begun attaching AI Overview labels to local knowledge panels built from Google Business Profile data, with a "Show more" button that expands into an AI Mode-style chat interface, according …
Google has begun rolling out a Collected Info tab in Google Business Profile dashboards, giving eligible business owners a way to review and delete information its automated assistant has gathered abo…
A developer building an AI social media tool called bleam has outlined its freemium model, offering free scheduling and paid content generation. The tool generates a month of social content from busin…
Google's product visibility tools—Google Business Profile Product Editor, Local Inventory, and Merchant Center—serve different inventory management needs. The Product Editor suits products without bar…
Perplexity AI uses a 16-head classifier to route every query to a fixed-threshold topic label, and web results can carry a written trust note ("credible" or "trusted") scoped per domain, according to …
Only 1.2% of nearly 350,000 business locations analyzed in SOCi's 2026 Local Visibility Index were recommended by ChatGPT, compared to a 35.9% appearance rate in Google's local 3-pack, revealing a 30-…
A new AI service lets local businesses install an automated receptionist that answers customer messages around the clock, using the open-source framework OpenClaw. The setup, sold for around $1,997, c…
LLMs decide which ecommerce brands to recommend based on entity recognition from training data, not real-time crawling. For Shopify stores, visibility requires consistent entity definition across plat…
Google has rolled out a Gemini Drop update across web, iOS, and Android, introducing Gemini Live for real-time camera-based image editing and Business Notebooks for integration with Google Business Pr…
The team at Notionmind Dev.to reports that AI tools like ChatGPT and Google AI Overview are replacing traditional search engines as the primary way customers discover businesses. To appear in AI-gener…