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Anthropic agreed to a proposed $1.5B settlement over pirated books used to train Claude. If approved, eligible titles would receive about $3,000 each.
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Google’s Help Center now lists Gemini App limits for prompts, images, Deep Research, video generation, and context windows.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google initially said that AI Mode will become the default search experience soon…

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Google seems to be using the reviews on your Google Business Profile listings to give responses in its AI Overviews. If you search for your favorite doctor reviews, you may see Google cite reviews listed in the reviews section of your Google Business Profile.

Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that he would personally go with a traditional TLD (i.e., .com) even if it means having to put a hyphen in the domain name. This is instead of picking a TLD that may be considered lower quality or cheap.