Insights
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OpenAI Just Let Brands Build Their Own AI Agents Inside ChatGPT. Small Businesses Can Get In Right Now for $500
Starting September 16, 2026, a ChatGPT user who clicks certain ads no longer lands on a landing page. They land in a live conversation with that brand’s own AI agent,…
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Lovable Just Hit a $13.3 Billion Valuation. Here’s What the No-Code AI Boom Actually Looks Like.
Lovable, a Stockholm startup that lets anyone build a working app by typing plain English sentences instead of code, raised $400 million in August at a $13.3 billion valuation. That…
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Google’s AI Overviews Cut Publisher Traffic by Up to 25%. Now It’s Quietly Testing Paying Some of It Back.
A study of 19 media companies by Digital Content Next found that Google referral traffic fell a median of 10% year over year after AI Overviews rolled out, with non-news…
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Perplexity Is Handing Publishers 80% of a $42.5 Million Pool. Here’s How to Actually Get In.
Perplexity now pays publishers every time a user visits their site through its Comet browser, every time their content gets cited in an AI answer, and every time its AI…
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AI Side Hustlers Are Earning Double What Everyone Else Makes. Here’s What That Data Actually Shows.
A new survey of over 1,000 side hustlers found that people using AI tools bring in a median of $500 a month from their side hustle, compared to $250 a…
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An AEO Startup Just Hit a $1.8 Billion Valuation. Here’s What Actually Gets You Cited by AI.
Profound, a two year old startup that helps brands track and improve how they show up in AI answers, raised a $180 million Series D on September 15 at a…
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ChatGPT’s Ad Business Just Hit $1 Billion. It Took Less Than 200 Days.
OpenAI confirmed in late August 2026 that ChatGPT’s ad business crossed a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in under 200 days after ads first launched. For comparison, the earlier…
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OpenAI Just Priced Voice AI at 5 Cents a Minute, and the Business Model Built on It Already Exists
OpenAI launched a new voice API on September 10 called GPT-Live-1, and buried in the announcement is a number that matters more than the tech demo: $0.05 per minute for…
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The AI Agent Economy Is Real: How People Are Actually Getting Paid to Build AI Agents in 2026
Agent-to-agent payments have already crossed $165 million in transaction volume on a single blockchain network this year, all routed through a payment protocol built specifically so AI agents can pay…
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Google’s AI Overviews Are Now Eating 61% of Your Blog’s Clicks. Here’s the Income Model That Survives It
Forty eight percent of Google searches now trigger an AI Overview. When one shows up, organic click through rate drops 61%, and the median publisher lost 10 to 14% of…