Google’s AI Mode could deal a devastating blow to the web’s business model. (Thomas Germain, BBC)

Metrics mutate: SEO rankings and clicks out, “embedding relevance” and “chunk retrieval” in as GenAI rewrites the rules of engagement. (Duane Forrester Decodes)

After killing the article, sure, why not kill the author next? This slightly unsettling essay argues that authors don’t matter that much in the first place. Rude. (David J. Gunkel, Noema)

Chatbot alert: International News Media Association launches AI-powered “Ask INMA”, tapping internal content for on-demand media insights.

Who to follow: 75 expert voices at the intersection of AI and journalism (Marcela Kunova and Jacob Granger, journalism.co.uk)

Google tests NotebookLM’s chatty AI podcast on Search.

This report doesn’t even mention “liquid content,” but it shows what kind of personalization and translation into context-dependent news usage is already possible today with AI. (Leo Necheles, Generative AI in the Newsroom)

Politico’s chatbot for pro users, the Policy Intelligence Assistant, is spitting out made-up stuff when asked, like about a non-existent “League of Left-Handed Plumbers,” according to Semafor.

Google Labs Portraits: Author Kim Scott is letting Google make a chatbot version of her to coach people.

Don’t over-control: A sci-fi author on worldbuilding and storytelling with LLMs. (Eliot Peper, Every)

“Googled ‘I am a pigeon what should I do next’ and the google ai made me an entire itinerary?? With survival tips??” (pipers.jpeg, Threads)

Claude is only allowed one short quote under 15 words from web sources, and may not quote song lyrics in ANY form. (Benj Edwards, Ars Technica)

SEO agency analyzes 75k AI Overviews, finds that one-fifth cited media as sources. 31 percent came from BBC, NYT, and CNN.

Takeaways and key points: The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News on generating AI summaries for news. (Sarah Scire, NiemanLab)

This research paper argues against “reasoning/thinking” hype: intermediate tokens often lack substance, despite appearances.