France flags lock-in risk as OpenAI, Google, Anthropic hold 84% of AI agents
The competition watchdog tested ChatGPT and Gemini shopping answers and found sharply different sources cited, raising portability questions for merchants.
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Google Finance still runs fake earnings 19 days after spam update
IDACORP ticker page carries a July 12 dars.gov.et byline, a stock never previously flagged. The injection outpaced the fix. How many tickers carry it today?
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Chrome auto browse lets AI agents book travel and fill forms alone
US AI Pro and Ultra subscribers today get auto browse, an agent that books travel and fills forms without supervision, raising fresh attribution questions.
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Azerion study finds AI ad voices fool 37% of listeners into thinking human
The 3,000-person UK study found regional AI accents lifted brand recommendation to 33% versus 10% for human voice, a gap most advertisers cannot ignore now.
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Next Net and Sundial pair four media brands with NVIDIA for AI content pay
SAIL lets AI systems retrieve ESSENCE, Refinery29, AFROPUNK and Beautycon content under paid, attributed terms, not scraping. Financial terms are undisclosed.
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OpenAI blocks ChatGPT ad audiences under 25,000 matched users
Files fail without valid UTF-8 encoding, and processing takes 20 to 30 minutes before an audience becomes usable, OpenAI documentation for ChatGPT Ads shows.
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ChatGPT calls convert to leads at 49%, beating every channel, Invoca finds
Conversion on those calls sits at 40%, roughly average, since one model alone drives measurable volume in the 70 million calls reviewed. Will rivals catch up?
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Google shifts AI ad labeling liability entirely to advertisers
Neither the automatic setting nor a custom label guarantees legal compliance, Google states, leaving advertisers alone to confirm every ad meets local law.
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OpenAI kills Atlas as search erosion data hits publishers
OpenAI folds its Atlas browser into ChatGPT Work the same week a Bocconi study finds wider ChatGPT Search access cuts traditional search queries by 9.4 percent.
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OpenAI kills Atlas browser, folds it into new ChatGPT Work agent
More than 5 million people already run Codex weekly, and OpenAI is now retiring its standalone Atlas browser as the new ChatGPT Work absorbs its browsing role.
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Wider ChatGPT Search access cuts traditional search 9.4%, study finds
A 45,386-household clickstream panel found ChatGPT clicks out on 5.2% of sessions, Google 31.1%. Wider access cut traditional search 17% within twenty weeks.
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Waze gains Gemini voice search and cuts driver alerts in less chatty mode
Seven countries gain motorcycle mode as less chatty mode cuts voice alerts for music fans. Four Gemini tools launch today with no adoption figures disclosed.
