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Last updated: 07 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
DeepSeek Opens Its In-House Search Engine To Developers
A Chinese AI lab opened its search engine to developers. Each result carries a page-level authority tier, and DeepSeek says it filters GEO manipulation.
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It Knew Every Word
A model can recite your brand’s description and still fail the buyer’s question. Research on training data shows why “knowing” is the hard part.
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AI Search Tools Cited A Made-Up Concept Within A Week, Paper Finds
Researchers posted about a made-up concept on sites AI search tools cite. Four English-web tools cited it within a week. Other topics mostly didn't land.
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The New Rules Of Journalist Outreach, Based On Millions Of Emails
Get journalist outreach pitches seen and understood with relevant targeting, authenticated domains, concrete subject lines, and clear openings that shape AI inbox…
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OpenAI’s API Only Partly Matched ChatGPT’s Citations, Paper Finds
A paper tested whether Google results and OpenAI's API can stand in for ChatGPT's citations. They matched cited sites more often than the exact pages.
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Google’s Indexing API Docs No Longer Explain How To Get Approval
Google removed the Indexing API approval form and steps from its docs. Default quotas are listed, but the pages don't say how to request more.
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Recent mistakes highlight the risks of AI
A series of problems at Meta and X exposed some of the vulnerabilities in artificial intelligence systems.
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How Amazon turned its Thursday Night Football into a two-pronged pitch to capture ad dollars
As the NFL season and holiday shopping season both kick off, U.S. advertisers are devoting more budget to Amazon’s ad inventory. For the e-commerce giant, Thursday Night…
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The Verge switches up its audience team to prepare for Google Zero
The Verge is rethinking what it means to grow an audience in the post-search era. After years of prioritizing SEO, content distribution, virality and referral traffic,…
Read on our siteTarget bets on buzzy TikTok brands like Mellow Sleep to revamp its home category
This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Target is tapping young brands to revamp its homeware this year as part of the retailer’s multi-year…
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Media Buying Briefing: How are the 2nd tier holdcos separating themselves from the Big Three?
New strata lines are forming across the top layers of the agency world, as the Big Three (Publicis, Omnicom and WPP) cement their status as top dogs in size, scale and…
Read on our siteGoogle introduces shopping updates ahead of the holidays
The platform made its Universal Cart feature available to all U.S. users and published a guide on the best times to make purchases in major product categories.
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The company shared info on some of the more common business use cases for its Muse tools based on examples it has seen so far.
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U.S.-based users in the experiment group may be given artificial intelligence-generated responses to their search queries in the app.
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The personalized, scannable displays can be added to users’ digital wallets and used to facilitate offline connections.
Read on our siteMeta updates Terms of Service amid concerns around data scraping
The company changed the wording of its agreement after some language in the previous provisions exposed potential legal loopholes.
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People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
Fed up with ads, tracking, and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
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Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private…
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Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The…
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Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
The company offered some broad-strokes ideas for how this money might actually be used, such as “large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to…
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Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character AI’s workforce
The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another…
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Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
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Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings
The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.
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Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says
Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any…
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