Google has announced a major update for its Chrome browser, integrating its Gemini artificial intelligence model to add a range of new features. According to an official company blog post, the changes are being rolled out to make browsing more productive and secure. Reporting by Wired notes that this move marks a significant step in …
The Chinese technology company Alibaba has released Qwen3-Omni, a new generative AI model that can process a combination of text, images, audio, and video. The model is notable for its “omni-modal” capabilities and its open-source license, positioning it as a direct competitor to proprietary models from U.S. tech companies like OpenAI and Google. According to …
For years, the goal was simple: get to the top of the Google results page. We wrote articles, built links, and optimized every element of our content to earn that precious number one spot. But what happens when the results page as we know it changes radically? What if, instead of a list of blue …
Large language models like ChatGPT sometimes generate false information (“hallucinations”) because their evaluation systems reward guessing over admitting uncertainty. In an official post, the company OpenAI reports that this incentive structure is a fundamental challenge for all current AI models. Hallucinations can occur even with seemingly simple questions. For example, a chatbot gave three different …
A coalition of major web publishers, including Reddit, Yahoo, and Quora, has launched a new system called Really Simple Licensing (RSL). The standard aims to make AI companies pay for using online content to train their artificial intelligence models. The RSL Standard builds on the existing `robots.txt` protocol, a file that gives instructions to web …
A widely misunderstood statistic from a new MIT report suggests corporate artificial intelligence projects are failing, but the study reveals the opposite. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that a “shadow AI economy” is thriving as employees successfully use personal AI tools for their work, outpacing official corporate initiatives. The study from MIT’s Project NANDA found …
Colleen Jones reports for Content Science Review that despite the hype around generative AI, most leaders struggle to achieve measurable business benefits. The primary reason is that AI, unlike previous technologies, is uniquely dependent on content for both its input and output. Jones identifies seven key barriers that prevent companies from succeeding with AI. A …
AI web crawlers are overwhelming websites and disrupting the economic foundation of online publishing, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. The cybersecurity company executive has launched a “pay-per-crawl” initiative to force AI companies to compensate content creators whose sites they harvest for training data. Prince argues that AI chatbots have fundamentally broken the traditional web …
The generative AI consumer app ecosystem is beginning to stabilize after years of rapid change, according to new data from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The firm’s fifth edition of its Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps ranking shows only 11 new entries on the web list, down from 17 newcomers in March 2025. Google …
Apple is building its own AI-powered web search system that will be integrated into Siri next year. The move represents a direct challenge to AI search competitors like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Perplexity AI, according to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman. The new system, internally called “World Knowledge Answers,” is planned for release in spring …