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Last updated: 08 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Anthropic Warns Hackers Are Stealing Claude Sessions To Hijack Accounts
Anthropic warns that infostealer malware is stealing Claude login sessions to drain account usage.
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Rank Math WordPress Plugin Accused Of Secretly Taking Admin Access
New allegations surfaced that the Rank Math WordPress plugin has introduced a functionality that silently gives the company administrator-level permissions over…
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Judge Questions Google AI, Spam Update Fallout – SEO Pulse
This week’s SEO Pulse covers Google’s AI publisher dispute, spam update fallout, the GEO debate, AI citation gaps, and ChatGPT’s Reddit behavior in search.
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Google is dynamically expanding AI Overviews for some queries
Google has confirmed that for some queries AI Overviews may dynamically expand to its full state, replacing the AI Overview snippet with a full detailed response. This…
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How To Add Google’s Preferred Sources Button To Your Website
Add Google's Preferred Sources button with the standard embed, a configurable WordPress widget, or a deeplink.
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Greg Finn on 20 years of PPC: From exact match to AI Mode
Watch this video on YouTube Cypress North co-founder Greg Finn has spent more than two decades watching search marketing evolve from a hands-on, highly granular…
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Google says better YouTube creative can more than double ROI
Google has published a new Creative guidance on YouTube help document, giving advertisers specific recommendations for designing ads that fit the platform — and sharing…
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Google announces October changes to Display & Video 360 API
Google is making three unversioned changes to the Display & Video 360 API and Structured Data Files in October, including removing some content exclusion options and…
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More leads or better leads? Optimize for what your business needs
There’s a familiar conversation in almost every marketing organization: “We need more leads.” Then, a few weeks later: “The leads we’re getting aren’t good enough.” So…
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AI Isn’t Killing Marketing Accountability, It’s Exposing Who Never Had It
When Meta's ad AI altered approved creative without warning, it exposed a deeper problem: marketing teams rarely define who owns AI mistakes after sign-off.
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Instagram growth continues to outpace Facebook in EU
Meta’s latest DSA reporting showed that while both platforms have significant reach, Facebook usage is trailing Instagram.
Read on our siteX offers free API credits for its Grok Bot
The app is giving users free X API credits so they can try out its latest artificial intelligence-powered tool to gain account performance insights.
Read on our sitePinterest sets date for annual marketing showcase
Pinterest will share the latest usage insights, trends and advertising updates at the virtual event.
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The platform may soon be awarding virtual gems to its most engaging posts, according to an image posted by an app researcher.
Read on our siteMeta updates login with Facebook
The company improved the process with a focus on streamlining returning logins and allowing eligible users to confirm credentials with a single tap.
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Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a…
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Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a ‘brazen campaign’ of intellectual property theft
This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.
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At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?
Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
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‘We’re not doing 30 bets a year’: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z
Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from…
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Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.
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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of…
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An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.
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Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.
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