As AI-led search becomes a real driver of discovery, an old assumption is back with new urgency. If AI systems infer quality from user experience, and Core Web Vitals (CWV) are Google’s most visible ...

Generative AI didn’t just transform search results this past year; it upended how monetization works on the open web. So how have digital publishers been faring in this new era of content discovery?

AI Mode and AI Overviews cited the same URLs only 13.7% of the time. Responses averaged 86% semantic similarity despite low word overlap. AI Mode responses were longer and included more entities and ...

A bombshell was dropped on the AI industry when an August 2025 USENIX study found that AI browsers violate user privacy by collecting customer browsing data. Conducted by researchers at the University ...

AI Mode will preface its list of sources with an AI-generated snippet about why they’re relevant. AI Mode will preface its list of sources with an AI-generated snippet about why they’re relevant. is a ...

AI browsers are too risky for adoption today, Gartner said. CISOs need to block them until existing security concerns are reduced. Automation is useful, but convenience shouldn't replace security.

Do AI browsers represent the future of perusing the world wide web? The AI industry certainly wants you to believe that they do, just as it promised autonomous AI “agents” could automate tasks on your ...

Tim Metz is worried about the “Google Maps–ification” of his mind. Just as many people have come to rely on GPS apps to get around, the 44-year-old content marketer fears that he is becoming dependent ...

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Francesco Agnellini does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

IBM recently launched its Granite 4.0 Nano AI models that, like AI chatbots on iPhones, you can run locally in your web browser. The four new models, which range from 350 million to 1.5 billion ...