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...
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...
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...
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...
When the “AI consultant” aced the test, the real story was human status anxiety The SAP experiment that made headlines this week is not really about an overhyped AI consultant. It is about how professionals protect their status, even when the work in front of them is...
