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🤖 The Latest AI News You Can’t Miss

Let’s go through the hottest AI news stories of the week.

DeepSeek-R1: The Open-Source AI Challenging ChatGPT
Matt G. Southern
DeepSeek-R1 is a free, open-source alternative to ChatGPT, featuring advanced reasoning capabilities that mimic human thinking.

* Related: OpenAI has evidence that its models helped train China’s DeepSeek by Jess Weatherbed

Alibaba announces Qwen 2.5-Max to fight DeepSeek — what to know
Amanda Caswell
Days after DeepSeek took the internet by storm, Chinese tech company Alibaba announced Qwen 2.5-Max: “Alibaba's Qwen 2.5 is built upon the “mix of experts” architecture and aims to not only match but surpass the capabilities of DeepSeek's offerings.”

OpenAI launches new o3-mini reasoning model with a free ChatGPT version
Tom Warren
o3-mini should outperform o1 and provide faster, more accurate answers.

Google AI Overviews Found In 74% Of Problem-Solving Queries
Matt G. Southern
Google's AI Overviews appear in 30% of searches and nearly three-quarters of problem-solving queries, according to a new study.

Yahoo testing new AI Search features
Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search is testing AI Chat features and AI generated answers within the search results.

Google Launches AI Phone Assistant To Call Businesses For You
Matt G. Southern
Google launches AI-powered "Ask For Me" to make business calls, starting with auto repairs and nail salons

🤖 Useful AI Guides & Resources for Marketers

It’s time to take your marketing to the next level with these AI resources.

AI optimization: How to optimize your content for AI search and agents
Jed White
Allow AI crawlers in robots.txt and firewall rules, return content fast, with key info high up, use semantic markup, metadata, and schemas, create an llms.txt file, and more!

New Data Suggests AI Prefers High DA Publishers
Vince Nero
A new study by researchers at Ziff Davis shows that LLMs may prioritize data from authoritative, high Domain Authority publishers.

How marketing leaders are adjusting Google, AI search strategies
Danny Goodwin
A majority of marketing leaders are diversifying and adjusting their strategies due to AI search, the fragmentation of search, and a potential Google breakup, according to a new survey from enterprise SEO platform Botify.

How Do AI Content Detectors Work? Answers From a Data Scientist
Ryan Law, Yong Keong Yap
All AI content detectors work in the same basic way: they look for patterns or abnormalities in text that appear slightly different from those in human-written text. Ryan explains the three common approaches.

AI Content Creation: My Process for High-Quality, SEO-Friendly Articles
Despina Gavoyannis
This AI content creation process from Despina will help you to get AI to generate usable content (not fluff), add human insights to make content feel authentic and ensure everything is SEO-friendly and engaging.

Actionable AI For Marketers - An online course
Britney Muller
Develop actionable AI skills to elevate your Marketing or SEO career, streamline your processes, and gain a competitive edge.

🤖 AI Tools & Automations of the Week

Which are the newest AI tools and automations you can’t miss?

LLM Explorer
Charly Wargnier
Discover and compare over 190 Large Language Models (and counting) effortlessly with LLM Explorer!

Writesonic - AI Marketing Agent
Writesonic
An AI marketing agent that connects to your essential tools (Ahrefs, Google Ads, HubSpot), analyzes competitors, creates winning content, and builds custom workflows that drive real results - faster than ChatGPT, smarter than basic AI chat.

Creatify - Create Engaging AI Video Ads
Creatify
Effortlessly craft short video ads with Creatify. Customize unlimited variations in minutes — harness the power of AI for your video advertising.

AI Traffic Report
Kyle Rushton McGregor
How much traffic is your site really getting from AI apps? Kyle Rushton McGregor has created a useful Looker Studio so you can easily monitor it using Google Analytics Data.

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🤖 AI Marketers Poll of the Week

Let’s find out how marketers are using AI tools. A poll at a time.

🤖 The AI Meme of the Week

For your marketing lols.

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Aleyda Solis
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