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Claude 3.5 Sonnet Arrives Fast. The Reputation Question Is Still Whether It Shows Its Work
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. Model launches are scored on the chart: faster, cheaper, higher on the benchmarks. By those measures, Anthropic had a good week. For anyone who cares how companies get…
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Boeing’s CEO Faces the Senate. Search Already Filed the Older Safety Chapters
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 Senate hearing is staged as a moment. There is a witness table, a gallery, a clock. In search, it works differently. It is the newest page added…
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Wikimedia’s Ask Is Simple: If AI Trains on Wikipedia, Say So and Link Back
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 AI circles that Wikipedia is the easy case. The content is free, the license is open, so anyone building a model can…
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Apple Is Putting ChatGPT Inside Siri. Brands Will Live One Permission Prompt From an Answer Engine
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 commentary on Apple’s WWDC keynote has been about whether Apple is late to AI. For anyone who thinks about how companies and people get described,…
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Making Recall Opt-In Does Not Undo What Ambient Capture Revealed
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 headline today is that Microsoft backed down. Recall, the Copilot+ PC feature that takes regular snapshots of your screen so you can search everything you have seen,…
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When AI Overviews Summarize the News, Publishers Scramble for the Click That Used to Be Automatic
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 publishers worry about Google, they usually worry about rankings. Dropping from third to ninth hurts, but it is a familiar kind of pain. What has news executives…
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Google’s Own Postmortem Admits the Hard Part: Retrieval Still Chooses Fragile Sources
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. Corporate postmortems are usually written to close a story. Google’s post today on AI Overviews, titled “About last week,” mostly does that. It is also one of Google’s…
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What Communications Teams Should Do in the First Month of Default AI Overviews
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. Two weeks into default AI Overviews in the U.S., most of the conversation is about pizza and rocks. Fair enough. It has been entertaining. For a communications team,…
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Fixing AI Overviews After the Memes Is Not the Same as Restoring Trust in Search
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 standard reading of the last ten days is that Google has a bug problem. AI Overviews said silly things, the internet noticed, and Google is fixing them.…
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Scarlett Johansson, OpenAI and the Reputation Risk of Sounding Like Someone
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. Documents can settle a legal question. They rarely settle a reputational one. OpenAI is in that position at the end of a week that began with an apology.…