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Last updated: 03 November 2026, 05:30 IST

Search & Digital Marketing

Search Engine JournalSep 18, 2026

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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Search Engine JournalSep 18, 2026

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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Search Engine JournalSep 18, 2026

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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Search Engine JournalSep 17, 2026

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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Search Engine JournalSep 17, 2026

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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Search Engine JournalSep 17, 2026

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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AI & Automation

TechCrunch AISep 18, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 18, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 18, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 18, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 18, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 18, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 18, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 18, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 17, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 17, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 17, 2026

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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TechCrunch AISep 17, 2026

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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