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Last updated: 21 October 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google AI Payment Pilot, Search Profiles At 10,000 – SEO Pulse
Google is testing payments for content contributing to AI answers, Mueller says AI position data is hard to report, and Cloudflare splits training from search.
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Google Discover Test Adds Topic Overviews, Starting With Videos
Google is testing a "Dive deeper" button in Discover, starting with videos.
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Checking A Page Is Part Of A Retrieval Pipeline For AI
No GSC for ChatGPT? Paste a distinctive snippet into a chatbot and ask for exact matches. If your URL comes back, retrieval isn't your problem.
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Google Adds Local Businesses To EEA Search Result Units
Google updated its Search documentation to add local business queries to the two result units rolled out in the EEA for directories and direct providers.
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Meta expands Muse agent connections, launches Muse for Mac
Meta is looking to broaden the use cases for its personal artificial intelligence tool.
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The move signals the platform’s evolving approach to artificial intelligence tools and reflects a growing community backlash against AI slop.
Read on our siteYouTube executives share strategies on channel pivoting
Creator Liaison Rene Ritchie and Global Content Strategy Lead Kyle Monahan offer tips on how creators and brands can shift focus while retaining audiences.
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The refreshed playbooks feature overviews on best ad practices and a look at tapping into on-platform events.
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Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts
Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.
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Trump says it’s time to rebrand AI with a new name — and he’s also creating an AI Force
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
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Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
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Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the…
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AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
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Prices go up in 7 days — get your Disrupt ticket now
Current ticket pricing ends September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket.
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Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
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India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
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Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
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A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
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Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
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AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation
“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.
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Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell…
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A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
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Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.
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