Generative AI

OpenAI is testing ads in ChatGPT for free and Go tiers in the U.S. Ads appear below responses, labeled as sponsored. Paid tiers remain ad-free.

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Google Search Advocate John Mueller is pushing back on the idea of serving Markdown files to LLM crawlers.

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SparkToro research finds AI tools produce different brand recommendation lists more than 99% of the time when given the same prompt.

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Chrome’s new AI features enable it to go shopping, plan trips, edit images in a browser window, and answer questions from a new side panel.

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Google says it’s exploring new controls that would let websites opt out of AI search features specifically, as the UK CMA opened a regulatory consultation.

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Yahoo Scout offers a clean and uncluttered classic search experience with the power of natural language AI.

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Google is making Gemini 3 the default model for AI Overviews and adding a direct path to ask follow-up questions in AI Mode.

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