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Last updated: 28 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
More People Expect AI To Cut Jobs Than Add Them, Pew Finds
Pew's 37-country survey finds more people expect AI to reduce jobs than add them, a view more common in high-income countries than middle-income ones.
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Google Updates Mediapartners-Google Crawler Guidance: Less About AdSense
Google expanded their Mediapartners-Google guidance to make it about more than just AdSense.
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I Made My Website Charge AI Agents A Penny Per Page, Then I Watched Claude Pay It
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Googlebot won't pay your price yet. Charge now and you lose citations. Here's what to decide before the dashboard toggle arrives.
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AI Citation Test Finds Source Order Matters Less Than It Looks
A controlled AI citation test found source order mattered less than raw data suggested, while structured rewrites shifted how citation credit was distributed.
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Reddit AI Search Picks Already-Popular Comments, Audit Finds
An audit of Reddit AI search found formal, highly upvoted comments were selected more often, while experiential language appeared less often.
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Future of Marketing Briefing: Creators are learning to pitch AEO, not just audiences
For better or worse, creators could soon sound like AEO consultants. Give it a year, maybe less, and a pitch might spend as much time proving a video shows up when…
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The state of subscriber engagement in the AI era: Publishers’ first-party relationship strategies
This State of the Industry report, sponsored by Braze, explores how publishers are adapting their subscription, engagement and revenue strategies as AI reshapes how…
Read on our siteFacebook Pages get charged for link posts
After Meta One for Business launched its subscription packages, some managers say their accounts are being limited to two link posts per month.
Read on our siteReddit offers insights from its Health Summit event
New data shows the extent to which users turn to each other for medical advice and diagnoses.
Read on our siteMeta shares holiday 2026 planning guides
The company offered a range of resources for brands and marketers, including an artificial intelligence overview and an SMB playbook covering in-app gift research.
Read on our siteReddit SMB guide offers holiday planning tips
The handbook examines discovery behavior and includes an overview of the app’s most-searched product categories.
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Pinterest announces visual search ads and an AI restyle feature
At its Pinterest Presents event, the company unveiled new promotional options, artificial intelligence room redecorating and the second season of its CTV show.
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Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
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Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. "They will not always agree, and…
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PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.
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The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America's skies.
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The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than…
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OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting…
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Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
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UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from…
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Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K. government.
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Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
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Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI
Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets users visualize furniture, decor, lighting, and more in photos of their own rooms — potentially helping…
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