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OpenAI is Testing An Ads Manager, As Its New Ads Business Fights Growing Pains OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads program has begun testing an Ads Manager with a small group of partners and is gathering feedback.

OpenAI has begun testing an Ads Manager with a small group of partners and is gathering feedback, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed to ADWEEK. The Ads Manager is a dashboard that lets marketers run, monitor, and optimize campaigns in real time.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 independently figured out it was being tested during a benchmark, identified the specific test, and cracked its encrypted answer key. According to Anthropic, this is the fi...

This is incredibly amazing

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

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Google Clarifies How It Picks Thumbnails For Search, Discover Google updated its Image SEO and Discover documentation to explain how schema markup and the og:image meta tag influence thumbnail selection.

Google Clarifies How It Picks Thumbnails For Search, Discover

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What AI Models for War Actually Look Like While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of AI, Smack Technologies is training models to plan battlefield operations.

What AI Models for War Actually Look Like

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Google patent hints it could replace your landing pages with AI versions This is only a patent, not something implemented in Google Search. Here’s how SEOs are reacting to the AI-generated landing pages patent.

Who wants this?

Google patent hints it could replace your landing pages with AI versions

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Google’s Liz Reid: Search and Gemini may converge, or diverge further Google’s search chief says the line between web discovery and AI assistants is still unsettled as agents and new behaviors reshape the web.

Google’s Liz Reid: Search and Gemini may converge, or diverge further

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Google AI Mode Cites Itself More Often, With More Organic Links Google's AI Mode self-citations tripled in nine months. SE Ranking data shows that more links now lead to organic search results, not business profiles.

Google AI Mode Cites Itself More Often, With More Organic Links

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¡Larga vida a Dunkin!

Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide "countdown" Gemini allegedly called man its "husband," said they could be together in death.

Jesus christ

Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide “countdown”

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Woah.

Within 24 hours of being publicly targeted by DoD, Claude shot from outside the top 100 to number one on the US and Canada App Store free charts.

What 13 months of data reveals about LLM traffic, growth, and conversions An analysis of LLM referral traffic shows low volume, rapid growth, shifting citations, and an 18% conversion rate.

What 13 months of data reveals about LLM traffic, growth, and conversions

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Prompting best practices Comprehensive guide to prompt engineering techniques for Claude's latest models, covering clarity, examples, XML structuring, thinking, and agentic systems.

Prompting best practices for Claude

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Why XML Tags Are so Fundamental to Claude

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Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.

Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space

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U.S. Military Has Used Long-Range Kamikaze Drones In Combat For The First Time America's clone of Iran's Shahed-136 had been used against Iran in an ironic vignette of modern drone warfare.

U.S. Military Has Used Long-Range Kamikaze Drones In Combat For The First Time

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I keep getting spam and phishing emails from @calendly-official.bsky.social .

Needless to say, this is quite annoying.

And their reporting process is garbage. Calendly offers an AI chatbot, and when it requests the email headers, the chat freezes after pasting the full email headers into the chat

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

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Anthropic says China’s AI tigers are copycats DeepSeek’s new model has American officials and firms on edge

Anthropic says China’s AI tigers are copycats

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Hacker Used Anthropic’s Claude to Steal Mexican Data Trove A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and vot...

Hacker Used Anthropic’s Claude to Steal Sensitive Mexican Data - Bloomberg

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✨ We’re making updates to give responsive search ads (RSA) in #GoogleAds more flexibility:

✅ What’s new:
Up to 2 of your provided headline assets may serve along with your sitelinks in the secondary link format when they’re predicted to improve performance*

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Gemini Can Now Book You an Uber or Order a DoorDash Meal on Your Phone. Here’s How It Works Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S26, Google’s Gemini can automate tasks in popular mobile apps. We got a live demo of the new feature in action.

Gemini Can Now Book You an Uber or Order a DoorDash Meal on Your Phone. Here’s How It Works

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The AI productivity boom is not here (yet) Artificial intelligence is improving fast. Its effect on output, not so much

The AI productivity boom is not here (yet)

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The war against PDFs is heating up Will the file type survive the AI revolution?

The war against PDFs is heating up

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Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI The campaigns involved more than 16 million exchanges with Claude.

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI

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“The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain,” — Academy Commandant (Willem Dafoe)

Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders Claude Code Security is one step towards our goal of more secure codebases and a higher security baseline across the industry.

Claude Code Security

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Why? What a shitty graphic.

Google Says Links Will Be More Visible In AI Overviews Google is adding hover link pop-ups on desktop in AI Overviews and AI Mode, plus more prominent link icons within responses across desktop and mobile.

This is a VERY welcome change.

Google Says Links Will Be More Visible In AI Overviews

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Google Search Console AI-powered configuration rolling out This is now live for all users, so check it out.

At the moment, in GSC this is such a useless feature. It literally just toggles certain buttons/ date ranges.... zero actual new insights are available.

Google Search Console AI-powered configuration rolling out

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