Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, retired on July 1 after nearly 30 years at the company, citing the Voluntary Retirement Program. Canel led Bing's web crawling and indexing …
A Notion report surveying 6,118 AI decision-makers and users across 10 global markets found that 88% of organizations use AI only as an individual tool, while just 12% have integrated it into their sy…
Anthropic relaunched Claude Fable 5 on July 1 after fixing a vulnerability with a new safety classifier that blocks 99% of bypass attempts. The model is available globally with 50% weekly usage limits…
SeedProd released version 1.5.1 of WPVibe, an MCP server plugin that lets users safely connect any MCP-compatible AI to their WordPress site for content creation, SEO, and theme editing. The plugin en…
A new four-step test aims to catch AI errors before they influence business strategy, as ungoverned generative AI use could cost $10 billion in enterprise value losses, according to Forrester. The pro…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a mid-tier model that delivers near-Opus-level performance in coding and agentic tasks at lower cost. The model outperforms previous Sonnet versions and competitors…
Google's Chrome Auto-Browse, which acts on websites by filling forms and completing tasks, launched on Android in late June, while Apple's Siri AI, introduced at WWDC on June 8, only reads web content…
A Siteline report testing a Claude agent on 100 B2B software products found that access errors and hidden pricing caused the agent to rely on third-party sites for information, with 30% of runs encoun…
Over half of active ChatGPT users now predominantly use a language other than English, with Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic being the most common non-English languages, according to OpenAI consumer us…
Google launched a new visual treatment in AI Mode that places prominent links to recipe sites at the top of responses for relevant recipe queries, including images, creator names, ratings, and ingredi…
A user analyzed ChatGPT's network traffic to reveal how the AI selects sources, finding internal labels like 'result_source' with values such as 'serp', 'bright', and 'oxylabs', and six 'turn_use_case…
A survey reveals 61% of CMOs find local marketing overly complex, with 99% of senior marketers seeking an AI orchestration layer to manage multi-location visibility, listings, and reviews. Uberall pro…
A high click-through rate in 2026 does not necessarily indicate ad success, as modern AI-driven bid strategies and campaign architectures distort the metric. CTR has shifted from a primary success mea…
Multi-location brands face declining organic clicks as AI Overviews and other discovery platforms reshape search visibility, requiring a shift from traditional ranking strategies to becoming the busin…
Google VP Liz Reid argued that personalized search and preferred sources can help small publishers gain visibility, countering concerns that personalization makes them less accessible. Reid stated tha…
Google published a policy paper on June 25 defending its use of publicly available web data for AI training as fair use, arguing it is a transformative, non-expressive use. The company offers opt-out …
Companies are manufacturing Reddit threads to manipulate AI citations, exploiting the platform's heavy use by AI models for answers. This tactic, known as answer engine optimization, involves aged acc…
Kevin Indig argues that selling AI as a replacement for humans, a strategy he calls 'substitution positioning,' wins short-term attention but erodes long-term trust with buyers and employees. Data fro…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and SVP Nick Fox confirmed that Google Search is evolving into an agent manager, where information-seeking queries become agentic and tasks are completed within Search. Fox st…
Google's VP of Search, Liz Reid, stated that publishers must create content people actually want to read to maintain visibility in AI-driven search, emphasizing that traffic loss is partly due to shif…