In a recent AGI House interview, Sergey Brin described Gemini as a system whose capabilities are not just evolving but integrating world knowledge across languages and modalities. He said the software that AI runs on has also evolved beyond what it was originally designed for, and while Brin can envision Gemini achieving AGI, he also
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No major news stories surfaced during the month of May to keep audiences engaged across the major cable news networks. This resulted in a downward trend in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo for all three outlets during primetime and total day. Despite posting lower month-to-month numbers, Fox News remained the most-watched cable network
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If I could award a game 10/10 for sheer art and confidence in a style, Necrophosis: Full Consciousness would be that game. Made by artist and founder of Dragonis Games, Ares Dragonis, this eerie, atmospheric horror game is heavily influenced by Zdzisław Beksiński and H.R. Giger, as well as the Cthulhu mythos, but has all
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Google has published new guidance that canonicalizes itself as the single source of objective truth for SEO practices, including for AI SEO. The new guidance, published on Google Search Central, is Google’s strongest assertion of itself as the official source of information SEO best practices and SEO tools. The effect of the new guidance is
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Marketers have more data than ever, but a new report from Bitly suggests they still struggle to answer a basic question: What’s actually working? According to Bitly’s “The Marketing Visibility Report,” the average marketing team now uses six different tools to measure performance. Yet only 18% of marketers say they have a clear view of
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A series of sketches from my notebooks, all done with oil pastels. This practice allows for exploring traditional techniques and new artistic languages beyond the usual ones used in the field.
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Most summers, a reading list for SEO professionals is about thinking more broadly, stepping back from the day-to-day, and coming back in September with fresh perspective. This summer, it’s about keeping up. Because the gap between what you knew going into June and what you need to know by Labor Day is wider than it’s
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Liftoff Mobile’s initial public offering this week, which raised $437 million, representing a stock flotation price of $23 per share, was the latest test of the public market’s appetite for ad tech. The debut of the Blackstone-backed mobile app outfit — it was the result of the private equity firm’s 2019 purchase of Vungle, and
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Some parents never stop being parents. Whereas some see their children grow up and fly the coop for independence, work, further education or family, some may never come back. For a startling amount of Appalachian grandparents, the only kid they see step back through the door is a much smaller, younger, softer child in need
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Google updated its guidance for businesses interested in SEO to make it concise and easier to read. There is also a new mention of AEO/GEO services, caution about the use of third-party SEO tools, and, for the first time ever, Google is encouraging businesses to contact the United States government Federal Trade Commission if they
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It’s been 30 years since the U.S. last hosted the World Cup. In that time, the Hispanic population has nearly tripled, and nearly 45 million people in America speak the Spanish language at home. That makes the U.S. the second largest Spanish-speaking population in the world, after Mexico. The face of the country has changed,
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Lego has announced its biggest set ever, at 12,060 pieces. The model is a replica of Gaudí’s impressive La Sagrada Familia. You get to build it as it was actually constructed too, beginning with the Apse with Crypt, the Nativity façade – the only part Gaudí completed before he died – and the Passion façade.
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Some websites can now opt out of Google’s AI search features without losing their place in standard search results. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority imposed a conduct requirement this week, and Google began testing its own Search Console toggle the same day. The real question is whether there’s enough information to make a decision.
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The growing martech delivery gap comes from an ecosystem that treats platform fluency as proof of transformation capability. While certification matters, it doesn’t prove that an internal team or an external partner can redesign workflows, resolve governance issues, manage stakeholder complexity, or deliver sustained operational value from a platform. Martech transformation typically hits a snag
Read MoreThis series explores wind-shaped desert dunes, revealing sculptural forms, fine textures and shifting patterns created by light, shadow and constantly moving sand.
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The agent visiting your website knows the person who sent it. That is the shift underneath Google’s Gemini Deep Research Max, launched on April 21, 2026, as a public preview on the paid Gemini API tier. Deep Research Max itself is a narrow rollout. The pattern it ships is a preview of what the agentic
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Late last month, Google plugged its Gemini Omni model into YouTube Shorts’ existing Remix tool, turning it into a way to heavily rework or transform creators’ videos. Billed as a way to “easily step into the trends and conversations on YouTube,” the update has instead raised fresh questions across the creator economy about who controls
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“I’m obsessed with my collection of Japanese magazines, specifically Graphic Design (グラフィックデザイン) from the 1950s-70s. Every time I page through them, something different surfaces – a layout, a detail, a colour choice I’d flipped past a hundred times before. It’s always connected to whatever I’m interested in or working on at the time. I also
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Ann Handley posted something on LinkedIn last week that stopped me mid-scroll. She’s a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and one of the most respected voices in marketing, and she wrote: “AI literacy is not prompt literacy. It’s judgment literacy.“ Her post went on to ask a question that nobody in the AI training industry
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For the past few days, CNN’s chief international correspondent, Clarissa Ward, has been reporting from Bunia, the capital of the Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of the latest Ebola outbreak. Ward and her CNN crew, who have been the only TV news organization in the region, visited an Ebola “red
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