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Last updated: 26 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
The Text-Only Version Of Your Website Strips Out The Wrong Layer
Strip the visual layer and a machine can still use a website. Strip the structure, as markdown does, and it can only read about it.
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AI Agents Won’t Fix Bad Audience Data, They’ll Amplify It
AI models are everywhere. The data you feed them isn't. Mallory Gray of Skydeo explains why audience signals, not mention counts, decide who buys.
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Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE
Google's new system for catching AI content spam has already been deployed. This is why it may be a part of Google's Spam Update.
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Google AI Overviews Have More Links, But Not All Reach The Web
Google's AI Overview links can lead to websites or AI Mode, and Search Console measures those interactions differently.
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DMexco ’26 Briefing: From scaling AI operations to teaching the next generation of ‘bold’ CMOs
The future of AI adoption and the role of CMO in that disruption and transformation were central hot topics discussed on the main stage across the two days of DMexco…
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YouTube invests in AI agents, live ‘gamification,’ and editing tools to keep creators close
YouTube is piling on AI agents, live “gamification,” and new testing tools as it looks to keep creators, and their ad dollars, firmly within its ecosystem. These tools…
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Marketers bemoan the culture of ‘good enough’ as standards fall amid the AI bubble
Related Insights The Business of AI Comscore data shows how AI discovery is splintering beyond ChatGPT Read More It’s Fall 2026, i.e., the peak of the annual ad industry…
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Future of Marketing Briefing: Imagining the ad business hiding inside Meta’s Muse
Meta built its $243 billion ads business on human attention. Agents could be next in line. The more popular Muse gets, the harder that prospect is to rule out. This is a…
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Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
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Meta opens early access program for new Muse features
Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.
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Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual…
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Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.
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Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout.
Read on our siteMeta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for…
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Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web
The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly.
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Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.
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Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off
Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agent's promotion across its own apps and beyond.
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Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for…
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For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts
The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers.
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Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO
Anthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take the Disrupt Stage to discuss closing the loop between AI and…
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Affected by layoffs? Don’t miss this $75 deal for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Expo+ Pass
Your next opportunity could be one conversation away. Get your Expo+ Pass for just $75. Limited to the first 100 qualifying people.
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Last 24 hours to save up to $200 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Reason 5 of 5 to attend: Momentum
Last 24 hours to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass. Leave the event further in your startup's trajectory than where you started. Don't miss your…
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Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI
The venture firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.
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