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Google's AI Mode increased citations to google.com by 8.4x between April 15 and June 30, making it the No. 2 cited domain in Profound's tracking, driven almost entirely by Google Business Profiles and…

A joint analysis by Siteline founder David Kaufman and an SEO expert found that AI agents retrieve pricing information from first-party B2B websites only 79% of the time, compared to 93% for integrati…

Apple received Chinese government approval to roll out Apple Intelligence in China, partnering with Alibaba and Baidu for the modified version. The Cyberspace Administration of China included Apple's …

Anthropic, in partnership with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, has launched a new AI enterprise services firm with a $1.5 billion investment. The unnamed entity aims to integrate An…

Rising cost-per-click (CPC) rates in paid search are increasingly driven by factors outside the auction itself, according to an analysis by Search Engine Land. The cross-industry average CPC has reach…

OpenAI's first hardware product will be a portable, screen-free smart speaker designed as an AI companion, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The device, built with former Apple design chief Jony I…

Anthropic, in collaboration with Blackstone, launched Ode, a new initiative to embed engineers within enterprises and accelerate AI adoption. The move signals a strategic shift toward AI implementatio…

A founder's hands-on test of six AI video generators found that no single tool wins for all marketing use cases, with OpenAI's Sora delivering the most cinematic output but lacking brand consistency, …

The SEO vs. PPC debate is finally over, argues Search Engine Land columnist Tom Demers, because AI has shifted buying decisions beyond the click, making the two channels complementary parts of the sam…

Google's Gemini AI can plan a summer vacation itinerary in minutes, as demonstrated by ZDNET contributor Elyse Betters Picaro, who used Gemini to build a starter doc for a family trip to Disney World.…

Gwen Shapira, founder of a Postgres company, argued that Apple's lag in AI stems from its historical weakness in data infrastructure, contrasting it with Google's decades of expertise in large-scale d…

A new category of wearable devices combining open-ear headphones with built-in cameras is emerging, with products like Auriview's X1 and Rollme's Aircam offering AI-powered computer vision and audio p…

Google released GNM Head, a high-fidelity statistical 3D model of the human head, as the first open-source component of its GNM Ecosystem. The model provides fine-grained, disentangled control over id…

Major book publishers Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow sued Google on July 10 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging the compan…

Vint Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP, used his farewell address at the Open Frontier conference to warn that AI agents need formal identity protocols before the internet becomes ungovernable, as he retired…

Google shipped Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash APIs on June 30, enabling developers to build a complete AI media pipeline from still image to animated video for $0.53 per asset. Nano Banana 2…

Two vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude for Chrome extension remain exploitable months after being reported, according to Manifold Security. The flaws allow a malicious browser extension to trigger …

Apple released the first public beta of iOS 27 on July 15, 2026, giving users access to Siri AI, a new voice assistant with deeper conversational abilities and app integration, but only on iPhone 17 P…

A solo operator built a $6,000/month ad copywriting business in 90 days using Claude, turning a 10-hour task into a 2-hour workflow. The model layers active retainers with passive income from digital …

Vint Cerf, a founding architect of the internet protocols, has joined Innovation Labs, a subsidiary of DNS registry company Identity Digital, as an advisor to develop an open standard for identifying …