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Gemini 4 Hydrogen Is Now the Default Model in Google AI Mode
Google calls it the biggest model upgrade to Search yet, and it landed two days into the November core update, so your AI citation data now has two dates to log.
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ChatGPT Is Building Mention and Click Charts for Businesses
It's the first sign of a Search Console for ChatGPT, but it won't tell you which prompts named you.
Google Briefly Keeps Important URLs Indexed After 4xx Errors
VLC's site kept its place in Google while serving an 'I'm a teapot' error, but lost its snippet and favicon, and most sites shouldn't count on the same cover.
Apparel and Electronics Lead Ads in Google's AI Answers
A vendor count of holiday ads in Google's AI answers and ChatGPT shows where the ads are landing, and which ChatGPT categories lean on research prompts.
Anthropic Signs Its First News Licensing Deal, With the AP
Claude showed live AP election results on election night, after years of Anthropic saying scraping was fair use.
FTC Alleges Amazon Secretly Raised Ad Prices Up to 250%
The unsealed complaint ties Amazon's soft reserve prices to revenue targets, while Amazon says no advertiser ever paid more than their bid.
Airbnb Sets the First Half of 2027 for Its AI Travel Agent
Instead of a chat window, the agent composes maps, photos and calendars on the fly, and it handles refunds and rebooking inside Airbnb.
Perplexity Launches Teammates, Always-On Agents for Work
Each one keeps its own thread, browser and memory, takes jobs in Slack, and comes with the $200-a-month Max plan.
Dropbox to Buy Tigris for $350M and Sell Storage for AI Apps
Dropbox wants developers' images, video and model files, not just your team's folders, and it's buying a storage startup to get there faster.
