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Search Engine Roundtable: Google Blames Website For Race Based AI Overview Response. “Normally, I wouldn’t cover political topics like this, but with Google trying to copyright its search results, including AI Overview responses, I thought it was appropriate. Google responded to complaints about a race-based AI Overview answer, blaming the websites it sourced, rather than taking credit for the […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Blames Website For Race Based AI Overview Response. “Normally, I wouldn’t cover political topics like this, but with Google trying to copyright its search results, including AI Overview responses, I thought it was appropriate. Google responded to complaints about a race-based AI Overview answer, blaming the websites it sourced, rather than taking credit for the […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Blames Website For Race Based AI Overview Response. “Normally, I wouldn’t cover political topics like this, but with Google trying to copyright its search results, including AI Overview responses, I thought it was appropriate. Google responded to complaints about a race-based AI Overview answer, blaming the websites it sourced, rather than taking credit for the […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Blames Website For Race Based AI Overview Response. “Normally, I wouldn’t cover political topics like this, but with Google trying to copyright its search results, including AI Overview responses, I thought it was appropriate. Google responded to complaints about a race-based AI Overview answer, blaming the websites it sourced, rather than taking credit for the […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Blames Website For Race Based AI Overview Response. “Normally, I wouldn’t cover political topics like this, but with Google trying to copyright its search results, including AI Overview responses, I thought it was appropriate. Google responded to complaints about a race-based AI Overview answer, blaming the websites it sourced, rather than taking credit for the […]

Engadget: Reddit’s CEO sure seems frustrated with Google’s AI overviews . “You can add Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to the growing list of publishers, platforms and others who are frustrated with the state of Google search and AI Overviews. ‘People don’t want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit,’ he wrote in a letter to shareholders ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings call.”

Engadget: Reddit’s CEO sure seems frustrated with Google’s AI overviews . “You can add Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to the growing list of publishers, platforms and others who are frustrated with the state of Google search and AI Overviews. ‘People don’t want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit,’ he wrote in a letter to shareholders ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings call.”

Engadget: Reddit’s CEO sure seems frustrated with Google’s AI overviews . “You can add Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to the growing list of publishers, platforms and others who are frustrated with the state of Google search and AI Overviews. ‘People don’t want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit,’ he wrote in a letter to shareholders ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings call.”

Engadget: Reddit’s CEO sure seems frustrated with Google’s AI overviews . “You can add Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to the growing list of publishers, platforms and others who are frustrated with the state of Google search and AI Overviews. ‘People don’t want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit,’ he wrote in a letter to shareholders ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings call.”

Engadget: Reddit’s CEO sure seems frustrated with Google’s AI overviews . “You can add Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to the growing list of publishers, platforms and others who are frustrated with the state of Google search and AI Overviews. ‘People don’t want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit,’ he wrote in a letter to shareholders ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings call.”

Search Engine Land: USA Today vs. Google AI Overviews: A World Cup battle for breaking news traffic. “USA Today Co. is using AI-assisted shell files to publish breaking sports coverage faster. The strategy is designed to capture search traffic before Google’s AI Overviews summarize the news. The publisher tested the approach during the 2026 Winter Olympics and is now using it for coverage of […]

Search Engine Land: USA Today vs. Google AI Overviews: A World Cup battle for breaking news traffic. “USA Today Co. is using AI-assisted shell files to publish breaking sports coverage faster. The strategy is designed to capture search traffic before Google’s AI Overviews summarize the news. The publisher tested the approach during the 2026 Winter Olympics and is now using it for coverage of […]

Search Engine Land: USA Today vs. Google AI Overviews: A World Cup battle for breaking news traffic. “USA Today Co. is using AI-assisted shell files to publish breaking sports coverage faster. The strategy is designed to capture search traffic before Google’s AI Overviews summarize the news. The publisher tested the approach during the 2026 Winter Olympics and is now using it for coverage of […]

Search Engine Land: USA Today vs. Google AI Overviews: A World Cup battle for breaking news traffic. “USA Today Co. is using AI-assisted shell files to publish breaking sports coverage faster. The strategy is designed to capture search traffic before Google’s AI Overviews summarize the news. The publisher tested the approach during the 2026 Winter Olympics and is now using it for coverage of […]

Search Engine Land: USA Today vs. Google AI Overviews: A World Cup battle for breaking news traffic. “USA Today Co. is using AI-assisted shell files to publish breaking sports coverage faster. The strategy is designed to capture search traffic before Google’s AI Overviews summarize the news. The publisher tested the approach during the 2026 Winter Olympics and is now using it for coverage of […]

Gizmodo: You’ll Be Able to Search Apple Home-Connected Camera Footage Using AI This Fall. “Apple Home users might be familiar with the wall of notifications that the Home app sends on activity-heavy days. The company says that will change with the updates this fall. With the change, these notifications will be lumped together as one summary, similar to the way Apple Intelligence-compatible […]

Gizmodo: You’ll Be Able to Search Apple Home-Connected Camera Footage Using AI This Fall. “Apple Home users might be familiar with the wall of notifications that the Home app sends on activity-heavy days. The company says that will change with the updates this fall. With the change, these notifications will be lumped together as one summary, similar to the way Apple Intelligence-compatible […]

Gizmodo: You’ll Be Able to Search Apple Home-Connected Camera Footage Using AI This Fall. “Apple Home users might be familiar with the wall of notifications that the Home app sends on activity-heavy days. The company says that will change with the updates this fall. With the change, these notifications will be lumped together as one summary, similar to the way Apple Intelligence-compatible […]

Gizmodo: You’ll Be Able to Search Apple Home-Connected Camera Footage Using AI This Fall. “Apple Home users might be familiar with the wall of notifications that the Home app sends on activity-heavy days. The company says that will change with the updates this fall. With the change, these notifications will be lumped together as one summary, similar to the way Apple Intelligence-compatible […]

Gizmodo: You’ll Be Able to Search Apple Home-Connected Camera Footage Using AI This Fall. “Apple Home users might be familiar with the wall of notifications that the Home app sends on activity-heavy days. The company says that will change with the updates this fall. With the change, these notifications will be lumped together as one summary, similar to the way Apple Intelligence-compatible […]

Mashable: TikTok AI text summaries are rolling back after wild errors. “TikTok was offering AI-powered text summaries of videos, but that’s no longer happening. Business Insider reported that the feature, which went live recently, is being heavily scaled back due to its propensity for strange, inexplicable errors.”

Mashable: TikTok AI text summaries are rolling back after wild errors. “TikTok was offering AI-powered text summaries of videos, but that’s no longer happening. Business Insider reported that the feature, which went live recently, is being heavily scaled back due to its propensity for strange, inexplicable errors.”

Mashable: TikTok AI text summaries are rolling back after wild errors. “TikTok was offering AI-powered text summaries of videos, but that’s no longer happening. Business Insider reported that the feature, which went live recently, is being heavily scaled back due to its propensity for strange, inexplicable errors.”

Mashable: TikTok AI text summaries are rolling back after wild errors. “TikTok was offering AI-powered text summaries of videos, but that’s no longer happening. Business Insider reported that the feature, which went live recently, is being heavily scaled back due to its propensity for strange, inexplicable errors.”

Mashable: TikTok AI text summaries are rolling back after wild errors. “TikTok was offering AI-powered text summaries of videos, but that’s no longer happening. Business Insider reported that the feature, which went live recently, is being heavily scaled back due to its propensity for strange, inexplicable errors.”

Yale News: AI’s hidden bias: Chatbots can influence opinions without trying. “Prior research has shown that content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that has been prompted to be persuasive can indeed shift people’s opinions. But this study provides evidence that the same is also true of content that is not intended to change minds, such as the summaries that popular chatbots […]

Yale News: AI’s hidden bias: Chatbots can influence opinions without trying. “Prior research has shown that content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that has been prompted to be persuasive can indeed shift people’s opinions. But this study provides evidence that the same is also true of content that is not intended to change minds, such as the summaries that popular chatbots […]

Yale News: AI’s hidden bias: Chatbots can influence opinions without trying. “Prior research has shown that content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that has been prompted to be persuasive can indeed shift people’s opinions. But this study provides evidence that the same is also true of content that is not intended to change minds, such as the summaries that popular chatbots […]

Yale News: AI’s hidden bias: Chatbots can influence opinions without trying. “Prior research has shown that content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that has been prompted to be persuasive can indeed shift people’s opinions. But this study provides evidence that the same is also true of content that is not intended to change minds, such as the summaries that popular chatbots […]

Yale News: AI’s hidden bias: Chatbots can influence opinions without trying. “Prior research has shown that content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that has been prompted to be persuasive can indeed shift people’s opinions. But this study provides evidence that the same is also true of content that is not intended to change minds, such as the summaries that popular chatbots […]

Reuters: Google hit by European publishers’ complaint to EU over AI Overviews. “Alphabet unit Google was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by the European Publishers ​Council on Tuesday over its AI-generated summaries known as AI ‌Overviews, a move that could add weight to an ongoing EU investigation into the issue.”

Reuters: Google hit by European publishers’ complaint to EU over AI Overviews. “Alphabet unit Google was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by the European Publishers ​Council on Tuesday over its AI-generated summaries known as AI ‌Overviews, a move that could add weight to an ongoing EU investigation into the issue.”

Reuters: Google hit by European publishers’ complaint to EU over AI Overviews. “Alphabet unit Google was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by the European Publishers ​Council on Tuesday over its AI-generated summaries known as AI ‌Overviews, a move that could add weight to an ongoing EU investigation into the issue.”

Reuters: Google hit by European publishers’ complaint to EU over AI Overviews. “Alphabet unit Google was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by the European Publishers ​Council on Tuesday over its AI-generated summaries known as AI ‌Overviews, a move that could add weight to an ongoing EU investigation into the issue.”

Reuters: Google hit by European publishers’ complaint to EU over AI Overviews. “Alphabet unit Google was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by the European Publishers ​Council on Tuesday over its AI-generated summaries known as AI ‌Overviews, a move that could add weight to an ongoing EU investigation into the issue.”

Ars Technica: Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers. “On the question of whether the ChatGPT summaries “could feasibly blend into the rest of your summary lineups, the average summary rated a score of just 2.26 on a scale of 1 (‘no, not at all’) to 5 (‘absolutely’). On the question of whether the summaries were “compelling,” the LLM summaries averaged just […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/23/ars-technica-science-journalists-find-chatgpt-is-bad-at-summarizing-scientific-papers/

Ars Technica: Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers. “On the question of whether the ChatGPT summaries “could feasibly blend into the rest of your summary lineups, the average summary rated a score of just 2.26 on a scale of 1 (‘no, not at all’) to 5 (‘absolutely’). On the question of whether the summaries were “compelling,” the LLM summaries averaged just […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/23/ars-technica-science-journalists-find-chatgpt-is-bad-at-summarizing-scientific-papers/

Ars Technica: Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers. “On the question of whether the ChatGPT summaries “could feasibly blend into the rest of your summary lineups, the average summary rated a score of just 2.26 on a scale of 1 (‘no, not at all’) to 5 (‘absolutely’). On the question of whether the summaries were “compelling,” the LLM summaries averaged just […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/23/ars-technica-science-journalists-find-chatgpt-is-bad-at-summarizing-scientific-papers/

TechCrunch: NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature now supports 80 languages. “Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overviews, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/26/techcrunch-notebooklms-video-overviews-feature-now-supports-80-languages/

TechCrunch: NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature now supports 80 languages. “Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overviews, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/26/techcrunch-notebooklms-video-overviews-feature-now-supports-80-languages/

Engadget: AI summaries can downplay medical issues for female patients, UK research finds . “A new study surveyed real case notes from 617 adult social care workers in the UK and found that when large language models summarized the notes, they were more likely to omit language such as ‘disabled,’ ‘unable’ or ‘complex’ when the patient was tagged as female, which could lead to women receiving […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/engadget-ai-summaries-can-downplay-medical-issues-for-female-patients-uk-research-finds/

Engadget: AI summaries can downplay medical issues for female patients, UK research finds . “A new study surveyed real case notes from 617 adult social care workers in the UK and found that when large language models summarized the notes, they were more likely to omit language such as ‘disabled,’ ‘unable’ or ‘complex’ when the patient was tagged as female, which could lead to women receiving […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/engadget-ai-summaries-can-downplay-medical-issues-for-female-patients-uk-research-finds/

Engadget: AI summaries can downplay medical issues for female patients, UK research finds . “A new study surveyed real case notes from 617 adult social care workers in the UK and found that when large language models summarized the notes, they were more likely to omit language such as ‘disabled,’ ‘unable’ or ‘complex’ when the patient was tagged as female, which could lead to women receiving […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/engadget-ai-summaries-can-downplay-medical-issues-for-female-patients-uk-research-finds/

Engadget: AI summaries can downplay medical issues for female patients, UK research finds . “A new study surveyed real case notes from 617 adult social care workers in the UK and found that when large language models summarized the notes, they were more likely to omit language such as ‘disabled,’ ‘unable’ or ‘complex’ when the patient was tagged as female, which could lead to women receiving […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/engadget-ai-summaries-can-downplay-medical-issues-for-female-patients-uk-research-finds/

Engadget: AI summaries can downplay medical issues for female patients, UK research finds . “A new study surveyed real case notes from 617 adult social care workers in the UK and found that when large language models summarized the notes, they were more likely to omit language such as ‘disabled,’ ‘unable’ or ‘complex’ when the patient was tagged as female, which could lead to women receiving […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/engadget-ai-summaries-can-downplay-medical-issues-for-female-patients-uk-research-finds/

Engadget: Wikipedia cancels plan to test AI summaries after editors skewer the idea. “Wikipedia is backing off a plan to test AI article summaries. Earlier this month, the platform announced plans to trial the feature for about 10 percent of mobile web visitors. To say they weren’t well-received by editors would be an understatement. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) then changed plans and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/engadget-wikipedia-cancels-plan-to-test-ai-summaries-after-editors-skewer-the-idea/

Engadget: Wikipedia cancels plan to test AI summaries after editors skewer the idea. “Wikipedia is backing off a plan to test AI article summaries. Earlier this month, the platform announced plans to trial the feature for about 10 percent of mobile web visitors. To say they weren’t well-received by editors would be an understatement. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) then changed plans and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/engadget-wikipedia-cancels-plan-to-test-ai-summaries-after-editors-skewer-the-idea/

MakeUseOf: I Instantly Know if a YouTube Video Deserves My Time, Thanks to This Tool. “Let’s cut to the chase: TLDR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) is a Chrome extension that turns any web page or YouTube video into a pithy, bullet-style digest. Click the blue-and-white lightning icon, and a concise summary pops up in a sidebar. It doesn’t dump the full transcript on you, nor does it spoon-feed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/makeuseof-i-instantly-know-if-a-youtube-video-deserves-my-time-thanks-to-this-tool/

MakeUseOf: I Instantly Know if a YouTube Video Deserves My Time, Thanks to This Tool. “Let’s cut to the chase: TLDR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) is a Chrome extension that turns any web page or YouTube video into a pithy, bullet-style digest. Click the blue-and-white lightning icon, and a concise summary pops up in a sidebar. It doesn’t dump the full transcript on you, nor does it spoon-feed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/makeuseof-i-instantly-know-if-a-youtube-video-deserves-my-time-thanks-to-this-tool/

BBC: Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. “Louise Littlejohn, 66, received a voicemail message on Wednesday from a Lookers Land Rover garage in Motherwell inviting her to an event. An artificial intelligence (AI) powered service offered by Apple turned it into a text message which – to her surprise – asked if she been ‘able to have sex’ before calling her a ‘piece of ****’.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/bbc-grandmother-gets-x-rated-message-after-apple-ai-fail/

BBC: Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. “Louise Littlejohn, 66, received a voicemail message on Wednesday from a Lookers Land Rover garage in Motherwell inviting her to an event. An artificial intelligence (AI) powered service offered by Apple turned it into a text message which – to her surprise – asked if she been ‘able to have sex’ before calling her a ‘piece of ****’.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/bbc-grandmother-gets-x-rated-message-after-apple-ai-fail/

BBC: Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. “Louise Littlejohn, 66, received a voicemail message on Wednesday from a Lookers Land Rover garage in Motherwell inviting her to an event. An artificial intelligence (AI) powered service offered by Apple turned it into a text message which – to her surprise – asked if she been ‘able to have sex’ before calling her a ‘piece of ****’.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/bbc-grandmother-gets-x-rated-message-after-apple-ai-fail/

BBC: Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. “Louise Littlejohn, 66, received a voicemail message on Wednesday from a Lookers Land Rover garage in Motherwell inviting her to an event. An artificial intelligence (AI) powered service offered by Apple turned it into a text message which – to her surprise – asked if she been ‘able to have sex’ before calling her a ‘piece of ****’.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/bbc-grandmother-gets-x-rated-message-after-apple-ai-fail/

Columbia Journalism Review: We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.. “Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/columbia-journalism-review-we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news/

Columbia Journalism Review: We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.. “Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/columbia-journalism-review-we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news/

Columbia Journalism Review: We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.. “Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/columbia-journalism-review-we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news/

Columbia Journalism Review: We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.. “Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/columbia-journalism-review-we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news/

Columbia Journalism Review: We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.. “Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/columbia-journalism-review-we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news/

BBC: AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds. “Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC. The BBC gave OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/12/bbc-ai-chatbots-unable-to-accurately-summarise-news-bbc-finds/

BBC: AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds. “Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC. The BBC gave OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/12/bbc-ai-chatbots-unable-to-accurately-summarise-news-bbc-finds/