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Nobel winner Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO
News

Nobel winner Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO

Demis Hassabis is not retiring, being pushed sideways into an honorary role, or leaving Alphabet. He is exiting the operational command structure of Google DeepMind entirely and moving into a newly created position: Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet.
6 min read 2 months ago
AI search cites 4 sources per answer, 37% absent from Google
Marketing

AI search cites 4 sources per answer, 37% absent from Google

Traditional search engines crawl the web, index pages, and hand users a ranked list of links. LLM-based search engines work differently: an AI agent takes a query, breaks it into sub-queries, retrieves a small set of documents, and synthesises a natural-language answer with in-text citations.
7 min read 2 months ago
Australia raises tech levy to 2.5% and adds LinkedIn to scope
Media

Australia raises tech levy to 2.5% and adds LinkedIn to scope

If you want to know where a platform's real money comes from, look at advertising. The Albanese Government has now done exactly that.
7 min read 2 months ago
Google bans fake and undisclosed paid reviews from search
Marketing

Google bans fake and undisclosed paid reviews from search

Documentation updates rarely make headlines, but they can rewrite the rules for thousands of businesses overnight.
7 min read 2 months ago
Google now shows businesses how social posts rank in Search
Marketing

Google now shows businesses how social posts rank in Search

Google has opened Search Console platform properties to everyone, letting businesses track how their Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube posts perform across Search, Discover and News.
7 min read 2 months ago
Google's new format tells AI which sources to trust
Marketing

Google's new format tells AI which sources to trust

The Open Knowledge Format represents organisational knowledge as a directory of UTF-8 markdown files with YAML frontmatter.
7 min read 2 months ago
ChatGPT nears a billion weekly users, seven months late
Marketing

ChatGPT nears a billion weekly users, seven months late

Nine hundred million weekly users is not a failure by any ordinary measure. When your own company announced seven months ago that one billion was just around the corner, though, the gap becomes the story.
7 min read 2 months ago
Best AI SEO agencies in Australia for 2026
Marketing

Best AI SEO agencies in Australia for 2026

Google says no special AI markup is required. So what is an AI SEO agency actually selling? Seven Australian agencies assessed on crawl and index hygiene, structured data accuracy, entity clarity and content architecture.
12 min read 2 months ago
Nvidia launches AI security group without OpenAI
Technology

Nvidia launches AI security group without OpenAI

Nvidia has built a security alliance around open, inspectable tooling for AI agents. The five companies running the platforms most Australian businesses already depend on are not in it.
5 min read 2 months ago

Google now answers 43% of US searches before anyone clicks

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Two in three US Google searches now end without a click

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Updating your address on Google can hide your business for weeks

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Google's AI ad writer cut revenue in real-world tests

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Google now labels AI-made ads whether you like it or not

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Google Ads locks out passwords for new tools from 5 August

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Google punishes bad content, not AI content, study finds

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Anthropic blocked crawlers and its pages hit Google anyway

6 min read2 months ago
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White House locks in voluntary AI release rules with big tech

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Local businesses rank on Google Maps but vanish from AI answers

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Google Search Console AI reports expand as clicks data stays hidden

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Seven in ten retailers fail AI shopping agent data test

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Google kills 130,000 AI spam channels and rewrites pay rules

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Publishers weigh blocking Google as search referrals collapse

7 min read2 months ago
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Google shuts the ads dashboard local service businesses rely on

6 min read2 months ago
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EU fines Google €890m in first Digital Markets Act penalty

7 min read2 months ago
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Court rejects copyright case against Google-scraping firm SerpApi

7 min read2 months ago
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Google builds AI image generation into search results at 25

5 min read2 months ago
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Alphabet search growth slows as AI spending turns cash flow negative

7 min read2 months ago
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Gemini 3.5 Pro stalls as coding targets missed and researchers defect

6 min read3 months ago
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Anthropic revenue hits $47bn a year as it hires Monzo's founder

6 min read3 months ago
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