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Google and OpenAI are building dashboards for how businesses show up in AI answers
Google added a Generative AI performance report to Search Console this year. Now OpenAI is testing a dashboard inside ChatGPT that would count how often a…
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AI Is the Amplification of What You Already Are
Three years of teaching my AI how to draw
From notebooks and the iPad to SVG and HTML code, then Grok and Opus 5.5.
Number one is a thing of the past
It's thanks to context memory. Both classic search and AI are likely to never have the same number one again.
The Price of Our Buying Mistakes Is About to Change
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Data Leverage
Written with James J Ward. How data partnerships create growth no company builds alone. The thinking on this site started here, and the writing continues it.
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