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Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/goog

Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on select publications’ Google News pages | TechCrunch
By adding AI-powered article overviews, Google says users will get more context before they click through to read an article.

Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/goog

Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on select publications’ Google News pages | TechCrunch
By adding AI-powered article overviews, Google says users will get more context before they click through to read an article.

Clickbait direkt von Google: Test mit KI-generierten Titeln im Discover-Feed
Googles Discover-Feed ist beliebt, um lesenswerte Artikel oder Neuigkeiten im Internet zu finden. In einem Experiment lässt Google die Titel KI-generieren.

*Corporate stupidity entry No. 120023:*
The intranet sends out eMail notifications for new articles. The eMail contains just a teaser text but a huge meaningless header picture. You have to click and authenticate to read the full content. Like it's a click-bait platform that lives off the advertising and data tracking and not the corporate Intranet.

I analyzed 40 million articles of this form to find out whether this approach is anything other than clickbait, and you'll never guess what I learned, read to the end to find out the secret to when this technique is effective

Google is conducting a small test for some Discover users, replacing original news headlines with short AI-generated ones that are sometimes misleading or inane (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intell…

Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
Google Discover, the company’s smartphone news feed, is experimenting with AI headlines. Many of them are very bad.

On Aug. 19, Phrack reported a slew of Korean government agencies had been successfully hacked.
https://phrack.org/issues/72/7_md#article
Today, the Korean government admitted it was true.

I used to use this "Mesh on demand" website to find articles relevant to a specific abstract - but it doesn't seem to work anymore, or maybe it's just me? Anyone else has been using it recently?
https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/MeSHonDemand
You just paste an abstract and click search, it take some tim…

Nothing's new Lock Glimpse feature on the Phone (3a) Lite shows a rotating selection of wallpapers that link to clickbait articles from a company called Vilykke (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/30/nothing-lock-screen-ads-sketchy/

Nothing’s bizarre new lock screen ‘ads’ want you to visit this sketchy clickbait farm [Gallery]
Nothing’s new “Lock Glimpse” feature delivers a rotating selection of wallpapers on the lock screen of the Phone (3a) Lite,...

ChatGPT Atlas will feature an agent mode to let ChatGPT take actions; clicking a search link will show a split-screen with the webpage and a ChatGPT transcript (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here
ChatGPT is the “beating heart of Atlas,” according to employees on the livestream.