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  • What to Do When ChatGPT Deep Research Writes a Report That Mentions Your Company

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. A chatbot answer is something you read and move on from. A report is something you save, paste into a deck and forward to your boss. That difference…

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  • Cheaper Reasoning Models Will Multiply Mid-Tier Answer Engines That Can Still Cite You Wrong

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. OpenAI released o3-mini today, describing it as the most cost-efficient model in its reasoning series. It is available in ChatGPT and in the API, it replaces o1-mini in…

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  • Wikidata Change Streams Are Not a Trivia Feed. They Are Live Entity Plumbing

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. Most people who work on corporate reputation know Wikipedia. Far fewer know Wikidata, and those who do often file it away as a back room: a big database…

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  • DeepSeek Hit No. 1 and Chip Stocks Sold Off. Markets Moved Faster Than Reputation Systems

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. On Monday, a free chatbot app from a Chinese startup that most investors could not have named a month ago became the most downloaded free app in Apple’s…

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  • Three Things OpenAI’s Operator Clarifies About Agents Acting as Customers

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. Yesterday OpenAI released Operator, “an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you.” It runs its own browser, sees pages through screenshots, and acts…

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  • DeepSeek-R1 Shows Open Reasoners Can Match Closed Ones. Brands Face More Answer Surfaces

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. On Monday, the Chinese AI company DeepSeek released DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model it describes as performing “on par with OpenAI-o1” on math, code and reasoning tasks. It published…

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  • Stargate Prices Compute. It Does Not Price Whether the Public Trusts the Answers

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. The number in the headline is $500 billion. The number in the first paragraph is $100 billion. OpenAI’s announcement today says the Stargate Project “is a new company…

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  • A Forced Sale-or-Ban Does Not Delete What Search Already Knows About TikTok

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. This morning the Supreme Court upheld the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act in TikTok Inc. v. Garland. The unsigned opinion opens with the operative fact:…

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  • If Community Notes Replace Fact-Check Labels, Where Do Brands File a Correction?

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. A week after Meta said it would end its U.S. third-party fact-checking program and move to Community Notes, most of the reaction has come from the people losing…

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  • Ending Fact-Check Partnerships Does Not End Brand Disputes. It Moves Them

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. Meta’s announcement yesterday that it will end its third-party fact-checking program in the United States is being read mostly as a speech story. For companies, I think the…

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