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  • Perplexity’s Funding Round Is a Bet That Cited Answers Become the New Homepage

    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. Startup funding rounds are rarely interesting to people who work on reputation. Perplexity’s is an exception, because of what the investors are actually paying for. On January 4,…

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  • If Wikipedia Can’t Agree How to Use LLMs, Who Audits the Sentences AI Will Repeat?

    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. Wikipedia has a rule for almost everything: sourcing, neutrality, conflicts of interest, even how to name an article about a ship. So it may surprise people to learn…

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  • Gemini Won’t Replace Search Overnight, but It May Change Who Summarizes You First

    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 Google’s Gemini announcement that I keep coming back to is 40%, and it has nothing to do with benchmarks. What Google announced On December 6,…

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  • Bard’s “Google It” Button Admits the Hard Part: Answers Still Need Corroboration

    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 coverage of Google’s September Bard update led with Extensions, which let Bard pull information from Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights and hotels. The more…

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  • When ChatGPT Starts Citing Wikipedia, the “Neutral Sentence” Becomes Infrastructure

    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 reputation teams already treat Wikipedia as a high-stakes page. It ranks near the top for company and executive names, it supplies many of the facts Google shows…

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