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What changed at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI, what it means for your business, and a link to the original source for every claim.
Latest edition
ChatGPT is growing again, and your buyers are using more than one chatbot
ChatGPT just had its best month in nearly a year, but most chatbot users no longer stick to one. Here is what the data says about how people search and shop now, and what AEO means for your business.
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- An OpenAI agent wanders, ChatGPT takes logins, Wikipedia loses 8%
- Claude opens a school, Apple locks the Mac, Gemini tightens the belt
- ChatGPT opens a fitting room, Muse hits 5 million, Grok gets a job
- ChatGPT Ads wants your CRM, Google ships Argon, Claude goes to the bank
- OpenAI launches dots, Sol matches Sonnet's price, Claude naps
- Claude speeds up, OpenAI benches Astra, Muse meets Shopify
AI Tool Reviews
New AI tools, tried for real.
The app everyone is talking about this week, tested with real work: what it is great at, and where it still needs a human.
Is Pangram's AI detector accurate? It flagged my own writing 100% AIThe verdict: A detector should be a signal, not proof.Read the review · 7 min
Gemini Notebook passed my pricing test.The verdict: Great for a document you would rather not read. Ask it direct questions, click the citations, and keep an eye on its adjectives.Read the review · 4 min
Meta Muse is very fast. I still would not leave it alone.The verdict: Great when it is running. It is the quickest agent I have used, and I still want a human close enough to read the logs.Read the review · 10 min
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