Category: business

Altman blames side products for letting Anthropic close the gap, and describes a model that escaped its eval sandbox, pausing frontier training.

OpenAI self-funded a $7B buyback at an unchanged $852B valuation days before its COO and CRO both resigned, part of a wider pattern of exits and dissolved sa...

Google's AI can call local businesses for quotes and email a comparison. In one sighting the top recommendation was a shop that ranked nowhere but answered.

Search Console can now connect Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X properties to show the queries, clicks, and top posts driving discovery on each platform.

TIME serves AI crawlers a markdown copy 23x smaller than the human page, with sponsored FAQ text injected and every bot fetch billed as an ad impression.

In AI search, a citation means AI used your page as a source; a mention names your brand in the answer. Mentions are the KPI that matters.

Adobe turned buy-once software into perpetual rent, then hit record revenue as its stock crashed. Generative AI removes the skill-scarcity moat its model rel...

FT documentary on India's two-sided AI economy: low-paid data annotation and robotics training labour, set against AI's existential threat to the IT services...

Google's published guidance says AI search rewards original first-party content and complete Google Business Profiles, not llms.txt or GEO hacks.

Google's Gemini generates a personal AI avatar from a short selfie video, reusable across Google Vids and Google Flow with scripted dialogue.

The Europe-is-falling-behind narrative rests on a GDP-measurement quirk. On purchasing power, Europe basically matches the US.

Google AI Mode usage report shows follow-up queries up over 40%, one in six queries non-text, and task-completion how-to content winning.

Google's Universal Cart is a persistent, Gemini-powered cart spanning Search, Gemini, YouTube and Gmail, with deal tracking and one-tap checkout.

Google's Ask YouTube turns on-platform search into a conversational AI that answers questions and deep-links straight to the relevant video moment.

A CNET clip from Google I/O teasing Universal Cart, a Gemini-powered hub where an AI agent assembles and checks out one cart across many merchants.

Sergey Brin's 70-20-10 rule at Google: 70% core, 20% adjacent, 10% unrelated. The unrelated 10% is the math driver for compounding growth.

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business, a Claude Cowork add-on with connectors to QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, and 15 prebuilt workflows.

Telling a client they don't need the more expensive option outperforms traditional persuasion with high-net-worth buyers and locks in loyalty.

Eugene Schwartz's Breakthrough Advertising is the foundational direct-response text, and feeding its frameworks to an LLM beats just reading it.

A 7-level maturity model for using Claude Code as a personal marketing engine. Tools change weekly, so taste, not tools, is the real bottleneck.