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AgentKit Makes It Easier to Ship Agents That Speak in Your Brand’s Name
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 launched AgentKit on Monday, calling it “a complete set of tools for developers and enterprises to build, deploy, and optimize agents.” Most of the attention has gone…
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AI Mode Adds 35 Languages. Many Markets Can Now Get Two Answers About the Same 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. Google expanded AI Mode yesterday to more than 35 new languages and over 40 new countries and territories. That brings it to more than 200 countries and territories,…
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AI Mode Shops by Vibe. Retailer Listings Now Describe Your Brand Before You Do
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 AI Mode update on Tuesday is mostly being covered as a shopping feature. I think it is more useful as a case study in who writes the…
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Sora’s Feed Is Built for Remixing. Brands Will Show Up in Scenes Nobody Approved
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 Sora 2 yesterday, and the model is only half of the announcement. The other half is an iOS app, also called Sora, where people can create…
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A Deck Built in a Chat Gets Forwarded Without the Chat
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. Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 yesterday, and most of the launch post is about agents and code. By Anthropic’s measures it is state of the art on SWE-bench…
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The August Spam Update Brought Some Sites Back. Demotion Was Never Deletion
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 2025 spam update is finished. The Search Status Dashboard closed the entry with its usual line: “The rollout was complete as of September 22, 2025.” It…
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A Late-Summer Reputation Audit for Answers Formed on Devices, in Browsers and Behind Logins
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 this summer’s launches shared a property that does not show up in the announcements. More descriptions of companies are now produced in places the company cannot…
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If Wikipedia Starts Checking Who Is Human, Who Watches the Edits That Get Through?
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 Tuesday the Wikimedia Foundation said it is trying a new way to tell people from bots. In a Diff post, three Foundation staff wrote that Wikipedia “needs…
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Judge Mehta Kept Google’s Paid Defaults and Its Knowledge Graph. First Impressions Will Move Slowly
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. Judge Amit Mehta released his remedies opinion in United States v. Google yesterday, 230 pages that follow last year’s ruling that “Google is a monopolist.” The structural remedies…
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AI Mode Did Not Make Spam Policy Obsolete. It Raised the Stakes of What Gets Indexed
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 started rolling out its August 2025 spam update yesterday. The Search Status Dashboard entry is the usual single line: the update “applies globally and to all languages”…