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Last updated: 07 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google, Microsoft & OpenAI Plan To Honor Shared AI Training Opt-Out
A shared robots.txt line could let sites opt out of AI training with several providers at once, but companies involved are handling it differently.
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Hackers Hijacked DebugBear’s DNS To Serve Malicious JavaScript
DebugBear told customers to remove its Core Web Vitals monitoring script. Site owners should also check exposed accounts and unauthorized changes.
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Spam Guide Update, Restaurant Controls & AI Mode Revenue – SEO Pulse
Google's spam guide adds indexing advice for pages made for sharing. Other updates cover restaurant ordering controls, report dates and AI Mode revenue.
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Shopify CEO Says AI Performance Review Answers ‘Didn’t Matter’
Shopify's performance reviews asked how staff used AI. Its CEO says the answers didn't matter, and the question can give a company a reputation.
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Big Brands Dominate AI Search But Leave Openings For Smaller Sites
New research identifies a potential weakness in big-brand visibility that smaller publishers may be able to exploit.
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Google Opens Connected Apps Preview For AI Mode & Gemini
Developers can apply to bring apps into AI Mode and the Gemini app, and Google's policy bars misleading descriptions meant to get an app picked.
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Amazon says more than 400M customers have used Alexa for Shopping in the last 12 months
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . During its fiscal third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, Amazon shed more light on how its…
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Media Buying Briefing: Overheard at Media Buying Summit: How AI is helping and hurting client relations and office work
Despite the headlong rush by virtually everyone in marketing and media to adopt AI tools and technology — from sophisticated agentic planning and measurement aids to…
Read on our siteX launches new bonus program for video creators
The reward-based effort offers cash incentives to participants for posting videos on the platform.
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Meta hires bipartisan political team
The company brought in multiple executives with ties to major players on both sides of the U.S. political fence, according to Axios.
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Instagram offers to pay creators for long-form content
Creators were offered as much as $500,000 to post videos to Meta’s new Features product, according to Business Insider.
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Google says AI chatbots are hurting its bottom line
The tech giant may be losing its stronghold on discovery as more users turn to tools such as ChatGPT and Claude for answers.
Read on our siteReddit looks to move toward a logged-in experience
The company’s U.S. weekly active count was down in the third quarter and search referral traffic saw a significant dropoff, although revenue rose more than 50%.
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OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’
Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?
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AI can make tech CEOs’ lives easier. What about everyone else?
On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf.
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Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn
At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept…
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Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
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4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale
On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a full day packed with meaningful networking opportunities, actionable insights, and connections that could…
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Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
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OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
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Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
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Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down
As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.
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Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
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Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says
Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding…
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