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Muck Rack Complete Report – Snipped from Executive Summary • Citations affect responses: Simply enabling or disabling the ability for AI to search the web drastically modifies responses, indicating that the systems are truly basing their responses on the cited works. • Journalism and earned media are important drivers: More than 95% of links cited …
Business Insider – Its contractor left it wide open. “An internal spreadsheet obtained by Business Insider shows which websites Surge AI gig workers were told to mine — and which to avoid — while fine-tuning Anthropic’s AI to make it sound more “helpful, honest, and harmless.” The spreadsheet allows sources like Bloomberg, Harvard University, and …
Washington Post via MSN: “Let’s say that you’re worried about artificial intelligence turning us into mushy-brained monsters, draining resources from the planet, slurping all your data and human knowledge, preying on vulnerable minds, wiping out jobs, choking your favorite websites, lying to you, or not being useful. Too bad. AI is becoming increasingly unavoidable in …
Right from the http://Duck.ai prompt box, now you can control: *the tone of responses *the length of responses *how you want http://Duck.ai to act *what you want to be called *and more. Any customizations get applied to all future conversations until reset or modified. You can see all additional instructions applied with the toggle on …
The Verge: “Proton, the company behind the encrypted email service Proton Mail, has launched an AI assistant aimed at preserving user privacy. The new chatbot, called Lumo, can summarize documents, generate code, write emails, and more, while storing data locally on users’ devices. Proton says it will protect this information using “zero-access” encryption, which grants …
TechCrunch: “ChatGPT receives 2.5 billion prompts from global users every day, OpenAI told Axios. About 330 million of those are coming from users in the U.S. These numbers show just how ubiquitous OpenAI’s flagship product is becoming. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, does not release daily search data, but recently revealed that Google receives 5 trillion …
New York Magazine, no paywall – Reddit is one of the last thriving islands of the old web. Can it survive AI? It doesn’t really matter who you are, how you spend your time online, or what you imagine your relationship with the internet to be. However you scroll, wherever you browse, and whatever you …
“Last year, Google introduced “AI Overviews,” a feature that displays an artificial intelligence-generated result summary at the top of many Google search pages. This feature is available to millions of U.S. Google users. Online publishers recently have attributed declining web traffic to these summaries replacing traditional search results, claiming that many users are relying on …
Too Big to Prosecute?: Examining the AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion of Copyrighted Works for AI Training Senate Judiciary Committee – includes video and testimony transcripts, July 16, 2025. See also ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin’s opening statement – Key Quotes: “While AI can be an incredible tool that unlocks further creativity, writers, artists, musicians, and …
CNET: ChatGPT Glossary: 53 AI Terms Everyone Should Know – “AI is everywhere. From the massive popularity of ChatGPT to Google cramming AI summaries at the top of its search results, AI is completely taking over the internet. With AI, you can get instant answers to pretty much any question. It can feel like talking …
Harvard Business Review: “Artificial intelligence has become an invisible assistant, quietly shaping how we search, scroll, shop, and work. It drafts our emails, curates our feeds, and increasingly guides decisions in education, healthcare, and the workplace. As companies increasingly integrate AI into their products and services, a critical but often overlooked question emerges: Why do …
TechCrunch: “Privacy-focused browser DuckDuckGo is rolling out a new setting that lets users filter out AI images in search results. The company says it’s launching the feature in response to feedback from users who said AI images can get in the way of finding what they’re looking for. Users can access the new setting by …
