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🤖 The Latest AI News You Can’t Miss

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

Perplexity launches Comet Plus
Perplexity
Perplexity launches Comet Plus, a $5 subscription for premium content from trusted publishers, using a model that pays partners by human visits, search citations, and agent actions. Pro and Max subscribers get Comet Plus included in their memberships.

DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced AI models to its subscription plan
Ivan Mehta
DuckDuckGo's $9.99/month subscription now includes access to advanced AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta's Llama Maverick via Duck.ai.

Apple’s rumored AI search tool for Siri could rely on Google
Emma Roth
Apple is working on an AI-powered search feature for Siri with the help of Google. The new feature, reportedly called “World Knowledge Answers”, will allow users to search for information and receive AI-generated summaries based on results from the web.

OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Projects to free users
Ian Carlos Campbel
OpenAI's Projects feature is now available to free ChatGPT users. The company has also expanded the file upload limits for projects: free users can now upload five files, Plus subscribers 25, and Pro subscribers 40.

Google: AI Mode Sees “Big Improvements” On STEM Queries
Matt G. Southern
Google says AI Mode now handles complex STEM questions better and surfaces key details sooner, timed for back-to-school.

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Does LLM Traffic Convert Better Than Organic? A New Data-Backed Study
Will Guevara
Will test if LLM traffic converts better than search in this study. “When looking at averages across all sites, organic traffic converted at 4.60% while LLM referrals converted at 4.87%”.

New Study: How Often Do AI Assistants Hallucinate Links? (16 Million URLs Studied)
Ryan Law, Xibeijia Guan
Ahrefs looked at the HTTP status of 16 million unique URLs cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, and Mistral to find that AI assistants send visitors to 404 pages 2.87x more often than Google Search.

Optimizing for AI Search Engines: A Meta-Analysis of 19 Research Studies
Organic Labs
This analysis of 19 studies and 6 case studies reveals how ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, and other AI search tools rank content, backed by 10,000+ LLM responses, branded citations, and millions of user sessions. “Comprehensive content shows a strong correlation (~94%) with visibility in LLM-generated results”.

The AI Visibility Index
Semrush 
To understand how AI models like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode respond to product-related queries, Semrush analyzed 2,500 prompts across five major industries. 

Do Better Google Rankings Translate to AI Mode Visibility?
Mitul Gandhi
Mitul analyzed the overlap between AI Mode citations and traditional organic listings for the exact same set of queries. “Only 20% of total AI Mode citations are from the top 20 web rankings”.

What AI Can’t Replace: Your SEO Talent Pipeline
Nick LeRoy
Client interaction on day one, public speaking, and data-backed everything. Nick shares five practical ways to level up your juniors and set them on a path toward long-term success.

How to Track, Measure, and Boost AI Referral Traffic
Carlos Silva
Carlos explains what AI referral traffic is, how to track it, and tactics to earn more visits from AI platforms.

The Future of Topical Authority: Teaching Large Language Models to Trust You
Yordan Dimitrov
Create structured, clear, and comprehensive content, demonstrate E-E-A-T, and utilise ‘LLM Seeding’ and off-page signals. Yordan goes through strategies for building LLM trust and visibility. 

🤖 AI Tools & Automations of the Week

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Brand AI Sentiment
DEJAN 
Google AI brand perception mining through synthetic reviews.

Pencilo - AI Writing Assistant
Pencilo
Pencilo is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps you write better with grammar checking, rephrasing, and translation capabilities.

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