Google’s pitch for AI Overviews is clean and compelling: we’re rewarding original, authoritative content while burying derivative slop. Great in theory. But here’s what’s actually happening: Google is trying to regulate content quality while...
The plateau of AI-generated content that researchers are celebrating this week isn’t good news. It’s a symptom of something far more damaging: we’ve entered an era where the internet itself can no longer be trusted, not because AI is getting better...
Let’s be honest about what Anthropic is doing with Haiku 4.5. They’re making money. They’re funneling developers toward Sonnet when tasks get complex. They’re investing in ecosystem lock-in because that’s how companies survive, scale, and...
Google continues to blur the line between search results and content. The company recently rolled out an AI powered update to its Discover feed that shows short previews of trending topics with links to expand. Google says these AI summaries are live in the U.S.,...
There is a new sheriff in conversational commerce. Walmart has announced a partnership with OpenAI that lets customers shop via ChatGPT. After you link your Walmart account, you will be able to browse items from household goods to groceries directly in the chatbot and...