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  • Llama 3.2 Adds Open Vision Models and Phone-Sized AI. Brand Summaries Can Leave the Cloud

    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 ways a company gets described online still involve a server somewhere. A search engine crawls a page, ranks it and shows a snippet. A chatbot…

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  • Wikidata Is Being Packaged for AI Retrieval. Entity Facts Just Got More Portable

    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. There is a common assumption in corporate communications that Wikipedia is the thing to watch and Wikidata is plumbing. The article is what people read. Wikidata is where…

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  • Boeing’s Strike Is Not Separate From Its Safety Search Record

    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. Inside Boeing, a labor dispute and a safety crisis are handled by different people. Labor relations negotiates with the union. Engineering and quality teams answer to regulators. Investor…

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  • OpenAI’s o1 Takes Longer to Answer. That Latency May Become a Trust Signal

    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 short history of chatbots, speed has been part of the pitch. Ask a question, get a fluent answer almost instantly. OpenAI’s new o1 models…

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  • Three Lessons From Nineteen Days of Google’s August Core Update

    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’s August 2024 core update is finished. A Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land that it completed on September 3, 19 days after it began on August 15.…

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  • When Your Founder Is Arrested Abroad, Platform Reputation Becomes a Dual Narrative

    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 Pavel Durov was detained at Le Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, Telegram’s reputation and its founder’s reputation became the same story within hours. For most…

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  • One Wikipedia Sentence, Three Owners, No Inspector?

    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 single sentence at the top of a Wikipedia article now has a remarkable number of jobs. It summarizes the article for readers. It often supplies the short…

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  • Google’s August Core Update Explicitly Courts Useful Small Sites. Reputation Is Still Substance

    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. Core update announcements from Google are usually short and nearly interchangeable. The August 2024 version, posted on Thursday by John Mueller, is short too. But it contains a…

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  • AI Overviews Reach Six More Countries. Local Language Is Now a Reputation Surface

    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’s announcement on August 15 has two halves, and most of the attention will go to the first. Google is adding a right-hand display of links to AI…

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  • Starbucks Hired a Famous Turnaround CEO. Search Still Indexes the Previous Chapter

    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. Starbucks shares rose about 24% on Tuesday, a record one-day percentage jump according to Reuters, after the company named Chipotle’s Brian Niccol as its next chairman and chief…

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