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Last updated: 28 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
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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Your Brand Needs An AI Accountability Document, A School District Beat Big Tech To It
Turn AI guardrails into search assets with a school district's template for published policies, named reviewers, and clear data protections.
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Cloudflare Will Write Your Robots.txt, And It Has A Point
Bot Preference Sync sets AI crawler policy per category, not per crawler. Allow GPTBot and block Bytespider, and no setting describes what you do.
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The State Of Search In An AI World: What Marketing Leaders Need To Know Now
Is a traffic decline actually hurting your business? Our State of Search 2027 shows how to tell and where to invest next.
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Google’s AI Payment Pilot Vs. Cloudflare & Microsoft Models
Google, Cloudflare, and Microsoft are testing different models for paying publishers when AI systems access or use their content.
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Google Responds To Cross-Domain Canonical De-Indexing Report
Google's John Mueller explains how publishers can catch site problems before they become an indexing crisis.
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Walmart adds marketplace data, deeper AI features to Scintilla insights platform
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . Walmart’s first-party data platform for merchants and suppliers, Scintilla, is getting a big upgrade…
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How women athletes are betting on the creator playbook
In 2026, being a pro athlete increasingly means being a full-time creator too. For women athletes in particular, content isn’t a side hustle; it’s become a crucial part…
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Axios preps new Axios Direct feeds for AI models, agents as revenue tops 2026 goal
Axios reached its revenue goal for 2026. Now the news publisher is building a new revenue stream to keep up the pace in 2027 and beyond. This month Axios will take to…
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Who wins and loses from the remedies to Google’s ad tech monopoly
It’s been 17 months of speculation over who wins and loses from the attempt to fix Google’s monopoly over online advertising. The remedies are finally here so here’s…
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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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Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make…
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Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI…
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Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI…
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Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops
Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.
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Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
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Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer
Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf.
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Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
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Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI
Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code…
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The clock is ticking: Final 24 hours to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is today, September 18. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders on October…
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