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Summary In today's episode, I walk through the latest developments in agentic AI assistants and break down the five levels of AI enablement along with the risks and opportunities they create. Here's what this means for you. You gain a practical framework for evaluating and safely deploying autonomous AI tools without sacrificing your data or…
How do we make better AI tools? This is the hottest topic right now in the field because model makers are saying they need to slow down the development of new models in the USA while it’s full steam ahead everywhere else in the world, particularly China. When it comes to making AI smarter, there’s…
Summary In today's episode, I explain how digital publishers can measure whether AI bot traffic is actually delivering commercial value. Here's what this means for you. You get a practical framework for separating real human results from inflated machine numbers, so you can make confident decisions about blocking, charging, or welcoming AI crawlers. You'll also…
Lexical? Semantic? Both! Two words that you should be thinking about as you use AI, in particular for larger projects where you have multiple documents, are lexical and semantic. These are the kinds of searches that AI, with the appropriate support tools, can use to dramatically reduce token usage AND generate better results. Lexical search…
Summary In today's episode, I tackle how to use AI for global marketing localization without losing cultural authenticity. Here's what this means for you. You gain a repeatable framework for turning grammatically correct but culturally flat translations into content that actually resonates with each local audience. You'll also learn these concepts: how to build cultural…
I am now more convinced than ever that AI visibility softare is bullshit. Inspired by Lily Ray, I grabbed all my very long query data out of Google Search Console via the API and started looking at it to see what kinds of AI chats were getting passed along as queries in GSC. First, a…
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