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Last updated: 18 October 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google Wants AI Content Fact-Checked, Gemini UTM Tags – SEO Pulse
Google adds fact-checking to its AI content guidance, Gemini links show UTM tags, desktop CTR fell in Q2, and a judge dismisses two AI suits.
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Shopify Now Enrolls Your Store In Every New AI Shopping Channel
Shopify merchants: your agentic storefronts setting now shares products with Meta and unnamed startups. Leave it on, and watch what Shopify adds.
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OpenAI Founding Member: Make LLMs Write Like An Aircraft Manual
Andrej Karpathy suggests asking LLMs to explain topics in an aerospace writing standard, or to answer with diagrams, HTML pages, or custom explainer videos.
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Google Adds Fake Author Warning To Helpful Content Guidance
Google's people-first content guidance now warns site owners against fabricated author profiles, a form of deception its rater guidelines already described.
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How We Build An SEO Content Roadmap For The AI Search Era (Step-By-Step)
A step-by-step process for building an SEO content roadmap that accounts for AI Overviews, from keyword gaps to a prioritized, citation-ready plan.
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When A Search Query Becomes A Standing Instruction
Google's AI Mode monitoring and OpenAI's dots keep requests active, with different tasks, sources, controls, and questions about site visibility.
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Instagram adds Threads sharing sticker for Stories
The feature allows users to add previously liked or saved Threads posts to a Stories frame.
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Security researchers found that the artificial intelligence-powered app extracted information on users’ personal contacts, per reporting from Wired.
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How TikTok is helping app advertisers rethink attribution
For app marketers, performance measurement often comes with a familiar challenge: the numbers do not always match. An advertiser may review campaign performance in a…
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Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
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Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
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OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
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All the AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
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Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused
Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.
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Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
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Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages,…
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Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge…
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It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge…
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Blackstone’s Jas Khaira on building the next generation of AI giants
Blackstone's Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50% off a second.
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Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)
With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created…
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Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art
"There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of…
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Clay’s Kareem Amin on the rise of the GTM engineer
Clay Co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin joins the AI Stage to discuss the rise of GTM engineer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register for your ticket and get a second pass at…
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Today is the last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. From October 13–15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will arrive at…
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