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AI search engines force businesses to rethink their marketing strategies

Businesses are struggling to maintain visibility as artificial intelligence transforms how people search for information online. Traditional search engine optimization tactics are becoming obsolete as AI-powered search tools like Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity, and ChatGPT increasingly provide answers without directing users to company websites. Forbes writer Rashi Shrivastava reports that search traffic has declined significantly …

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AI companies scrape vastly more content than they send traffic back to publishers

Publishers face an existential crisis as artificial intelligence companies extract their content without providing fair compensation, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned at an event in Cannes. Christine Wang reported for Axios. Prince revealed striking statistics about the imbalance between content scraping and traffic referrals. Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it …

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Opinion: AI efficiency gains cannot replace breakthrough innovation

Artificial intelligence tools excel at automating routine tasks but fail to deliver the scientific breakthroughs needed for sustained economic growth, according to Carl Benedikt Frey from Oxford University. Writing in the Financial Times, Frey argues that despite decades of technological advancement, labor productivity growth has declined from 2 percent annually in the 1990s to 0.8 …

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Anthropic reveals how its multi-agent research system achieves 90% better performance

Anthropic has published detailed insights into how it built Claude’s research capabilities, revealing that its multi-agent system outperforms single-agent approaches by 90.2%. The post was written by Jeremy Hadfield, Barry Zhang, Kenneth Lien, Florian Scholz, Jeremy Fox, and Daniel Ford from Anthropic. The research feature allows Claude to search across the web, Google Workspace, and …

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Opinion: AI could cause first major disaster through automated agents

Sean Goedecke predicts that AI language models will eventually cause a mass-casualty disaster, drawing parallels to early transportation accidents. The author notes that railways took 17 years to produce their first major disaster, while aviation took 11 years. ChatGPT launched in November 2022, making the timeline significant. He identifies AI agents as the most likely …

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Major news outlets embrace AI summaries to help busy readers

Three prominent news organizations are successfully using artificial intelligence to generate article summaries for their readers. The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News have implemented AI-powered summary features to serve busy audiences seeking quick information digests. Sarah Scire reports on these developments for the journalism industry publication Nieman Lab. Yahoo News introduced “Key Takeaways” …

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Opinion: AI agents will reshape the internet for machine-first interactions

The internet faces a fundamental transformation as artificial intelligence agents evolve from passive assistants to active decision-makers, according to technology expert Justin Westcott from Edelman. Writing for VentureBeat, Westcott argues that the current web design built for human users will become obsolete as AI agents take over routine digital tasks. Today’s AI systems like ChatGPT, …

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Google’s AI tools slash news website traffic by more than half

News publishers are experiencing dramatic traffic declines as Google’s artificial intelligence features replace traditional search results. Major outlets report losing more than half their search-driven visitors over the past three years. Isabella Simonetti and Katherine Blunt report in The Wall Street Journal that Google’s AI Overviews and new AI Mode are fundamentally changing how users …

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Opinion: AI will create more jobs than it destroys

Predictions that artificial intelligence will eliminate 20 to 50 percent of jobs lack evidence and contradict historical patterns, writes Rand Fishkin from SparkToro. The entrepreneur examined hundreds of studies spanning centuries of technological change and found no support for mass job displacement claims. Fishkin’s research reveals that previous technologies created more employment opportunities than they …

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