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AI Overviews Reach More Than 100 Countries. Language Choice Becomes Reputation Geography
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. When Google announced last week that AI Overviews would roll out in more than 100 countries and territories, the headline number was users: more than 1 billion a…
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ChatGPT Search Is Live. The First Screen Is No Longer Only Google’s Job
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. In July, SearchGPT was a prototype with a waitlist. Today it is a button inside ChatGPT, an app many people already keep open all day. That move from…
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Apple Intelligence Ships Without ChatGPT First. Privacy Is the Reputation Product
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. Apple’s first set of Apple Intelligence features arrived on Monday with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1. What did not arrive is just as telling. The…
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Claude Can Move a Cursor Now. Brands Will Appear on Desktops They Do Not Control
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. For most of the history of online reputation, the thing to manage was a page. A news article, a review, a search result, a Wikipedia entry. You could…
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Three Things the Dow Jones Suit Against Perplexity Clarifies About Cited 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. On Monday, Dow Jones and the New York Post, both owned by News Corp, sued Perplexity in federal court in New York. They allege a “massive amount of…
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When the Wayback Machine Goes Dark, \”Forever Online\” Stops Being a Plan
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 internet never forgets” is one of the most repeated lines in reputation work. Last week offered a more accurate version. The internet forgets, at least temporarily, whenever…
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The DOJ’s Google Remedies Framework Is Really About Who Controls the Default
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 of the coverage of the Justice Department’s filing on Tuesday night went straight to the word “breakup.” That is understandable. The government says it is considering “behavioral…
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What Communications Teams Should Do When AI Overviews Put Links Inside the Answer
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. Google made two changes to AI Overviews on Thursday that are easy to read as separate stories. One is about publishers. The other is about advertisers. For communications…
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OpenAI’s $157 Billion Round Prices the Answer Layer. Public Trust Remains Unpriced
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. Valuations are a compressed form of storytelling. They take a long list of assumptions about users, revenue, competition and execution and turn them into a single number. On…
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After California Vetoes SB 1047, Who Owns the Phrase \”Responsible AI\”?
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 Sunday, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047, the bill that would have required developers of the largest AI models to put safeguards and policies in place…