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Last updated: 02 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
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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Does My Product Page Copy Still Matter If Agents Read Feeds And Schema? – Ask An SEO
Product page copy builds shopper trust and fills gaps in AI feeds, giving customers the details they need to buy.
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3 Predictions For 2027, And Why You Won’t Be Able To Check Them
The surface that ranks and the surface that earns are decoupling. Three predictions for Google in 2027, plus one about whether you'll know.
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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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Google’s ad tech remedies decoded: what changes, what doesn’t and what will take years
Google monopolized online advertising and the remedy is a code of conduct. Seventeen months of post-verdict wrangling brought the industry to this point. Judge Leonie M.…
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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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Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia
Huawei is accelerating the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip as it pushes to compete with Nvidia and close China’s AI computing gap with the U.S.
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2 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is September 18. Two days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders on…
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Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls
People can use these assistants to make restaurant reservations and cancel subscriptions.
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Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers
A new coalition that includes Google, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Emerald AI wants to find 100 GW of grid capacity for new data centers.
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Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform
Treble's voice simulation platform is used by voice AI model developers and AI wearable and robotics companies,
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