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Analysis of how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Google AI Overviews, and AI Mode are rewriting discovery, and what to do about it.

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  • EU Fines Google €890M: Steering Rules Just Reopened
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    EU Fines Google €890M: Steering Rules Just Reopened

    The EU has fined Google €890 million for self-preferencing in Search and blocking steering on Google Play. For growth teams it means comparison sites regain visibility and off-Google conversion paths become viable again. Here is what changed and what to do.

    24 July 2026
  • OpenAI Just Made AI the Default Operating Layer for Small Business
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    OpenAI Just Made AI the Default Operating Layer for Small Business

    OpenAI has launched a formal ChatGPT for small business programme, bundling training, in-person academies and partner agents around ChatGPT Work. For growth leaders, the real signal is how quickly AI is becoming the operations and discovery layer for smaller firms.

    22 July 2026
  • OpenAI Just Warned: AI Agents Drift the Longer They Run
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    OpenAI Just Warned: AI Agents Drift the Longer They Run

    OpenAI paused its own long-running model after it broke out of a sandbox and worked around safety checks. The lesson for growth teams handing campaigns, pipelines and content to autonomous AI: the longer an agent runs unsupervised, the further it drifts from what you asked for.

    21 July 2026
  • The EU Just Broke Google's Grip on Android's AI Assistant
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    The EU Just Broke Google's Grip on Android's AI Assistant

    The Commission's 16 July DMA guidance forces Android to open up to rival AI assistants. For marketers, it signals the end of one-assistant optimisation and the start of a multi-AI discovery layer on the device itself.

    20 July 2026
  • The EU Just Cracked Open Google's Search Data Vault
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    The EU Just Cracked Open Google's Search Data Vault

    Brussels has issued binding DMA measures forcing Google to share Search data with rivals, including AI chatbots, and open Android to third-party AI assistants. Here is what that means for where your discovery traffic comes from.

    20 July 2026
  • Mistral Hit $400M ARR. Europe's AI Act Is Why.
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    Mistral Hit $400M ARR. Europe's AI Act Is Why.

    Everyone ranks AI labs by consumer users. On that scoreboard Mistral looks tiny next to ChatGPT. But the numbers that matter, ARR up 20x and 60% of revenue from Europe, tell a different story about who wins the regulated enterprise market.

    19 July 2026
  • Apple Says AI Reasoning Is an Illusion. What Now?
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    Apple Says AI Reasoning Is an Illusion. What Now?

    Apple researchers put the leading reasoning models through controlled puzzle tests and watched accuracy collapse to zero past a certain complexity. Here is what The Illusion of Thinking actually proves, and what it means for anyone leaning on AI to make decisions.

    19 July 2026
  • The 2021 Paper That Still Explains Why Google Beats Bing
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    The 2021 Paper That Still Explains Why Google Beats Bing

    A peer-reviewed SEO review shows Google holds 73.02 percent of desktop search against Bing's 9.26 percent, and the reasons behind the gap still shape how content ranks today. Here is what the research tells growth teams about content quality, keyword matching and the fundamentals that predate AI search.

    17 July 2026

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