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On October 1, Google told site owners to fact-check AI content by hand and called fake author profiles deception. We think invented personas are what Google catches next. Here's a 10-minute check of your blog's bylines.
TechCred's October 2026 round closes at 3 p.m. Oct. 30. The new rules reimburse up to $1,000 per employee credential for hands-on tech skills, and concept-only AI courses won't qualify. Here's who's eligible, which AI credentials are on the list and a 10-minute check.
Leverage means an outsized result from what you put in. Find the gap worth closing, size the fix against it, and stop when the payoff runs out. AI changes the price of acting on that judgment- not which improvements matter.
A1 Garage Door Service is reportedly selling to KKR for about $2 billion, roughly 20 times earnings, in a trade where small shops sell for 2 to 6 times. The difference is an office that runs on AI.
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI began rolling out in ChatGPT's everyday Chat tab on Oct 7, 2026, so a cost question can come back as a comparison or a working estimator. A generated calculator still needs local prices, and we expect it to name the businesses that publish them in plain text.
AI assistants are about to start filing quote and booking requests. Amazon blocked Meta's Muse, but a local business shouldn't. What's coming, and how to let agents in safely.
Google's AI now introduces most businesses before their own websites do. We searched 20 Cincinnati-area business names and 17 got an AI Overview. Where this goes next, and what to fix now.
A person reads your website. An assistant tries to get something done on it. Three levels decide how well a site handles that second visitor: readable, quotable, usable.
Your weekly roundup from The Forge: the articles we published over the past week on web, apps, and AI, with a short introduction and a link to each story. If we haven’t published anything new, we’ll skip that week.
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