Google NotebookLM Just Got a Lot More Powerful
Google NotebookLM Just Got a Lot More Powerful Google NotebookLM launched as a research and note-taking tool. Useful, but limited. The 2026 update changes the proposition significantly. It is now closer to a personal knowledge database: a single place where you can consolidate documents, web pages, YouTube videos and research papers, query all of it […]
CNN Sues Perplexity: What the AI Copyright Battle Means for Your Content
CNN Sues Perplexity: What the AI Copyright Battle Means for Your Content On 28 May 2026, CNN filed a lawsuit against Perplexity in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges that Perplexity unlawfully scraped, copied and distributed more than 17,000 CNN stories, videos, images and other content to […]
More Traffic Isn’t Always the Answer: How Service Businesses Convert Better Online
The Maths That Makes the Case The arithmetic of conversion improvement is more compelling than most business owners realise. Consider a business spending £4,000 a month on Google Ads and converting website visitors to enquiries at 3%. Doubling the volume of traffic to generate more leads costs another £4,000 a month. Doubling the conversion rate […]
Nearly a Trillion Dollars: What Anthropic’s Latest Funding Round Tells Us About AI Search
Nearly a Trillion Dollars: What Anthropic’s Latest Funding Round Tells Us About AI Search On 28 May 2026, Anthropic announced it had raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the company at $965 billion. That puts it within touching distance of a trillion-dollar valuation and, for the first time, ahead of OpenAI, […]
The EU AI Act Clock Is Ticking: What the August 2026 Deadline Actually Means
The EU AI Act Clock Is Ticking: What the August 2026 Deadline Actually Means The EU AI Act has been in force since August 2024, but most of its substantive obligations land on a single date: 2 August 2026. In less than ten weeks, the world’s most comprehensive AI regulation becomes fully operational for the […]
Why AI Search Visibility Is the New Competitive Advantage
Why AI Search Visibility Is the New Competitive Advantage When Andreessen Horowitz publishes a market analysis, the business world takes notice. The Silicon Valley firm has backed some of the most consequential technology companies of the past two decades, and its investment theses tend to arrive ahead of mainstream adoption. Its recent piece on what […]
AI Transparency Rules Are Coming: What UK Businesses Need to Know
AI Transparency Rules Are Coming: What UK Businesses Need to Know Regulation of artificial intelligence has moved from discussion to deadline. In August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act takes effect, introducing mandatory transparency obligations on businesses that use AI to interact with customers, generate content, or produce synthetic media. For organisations operating […]
Google Confirms: AI Search Optimisation Is Still SEO
Google Confirms: AI Search Optimisation Is Still SEO Google has published its most direct guidance to date on how businesses should approach optimisation for AI-powered search features, and the headline finding is one that will cut through a lot of noise: there is no separate discipline required. The new documentation, published on Google’s developer site […]
When AI Can Fake a Face, How Do You Know It’s Really a Human?
When AI Can Fake a Face, How Do You Know It’s Really a Human? Passwords were never designed to prove who you are. They were designed to prove that someone knows a string of characters. For most of the history of the web, that was close enough. It is no longer close enough. AI-generated faces […]
People Are Using AI More. They Trust It Less. Here Is What That Means for Your Business.
New consumer research reveals a widening gap between AI adoption and AI confidence. Usage is at an all time high. Excitement is falling. For any business relying on AI search to drive discovery, the implications are significant. 73% of consumers now use generative AI regularly, up from 45% in early 2024. In the same period, […]