The Media Buyer Is Becoming an AI Agent: What Meta’s New AI Connectors Mean for Every Advertiser
Quick Summary On April 29, 2026, Meta launched AI Connectors in open beta, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT direct, read-and-write access to Meta ad accounts through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Advertisers can now manage campaigns, analyze performance, run catalog diagnostics, and troubleshoot ad signals using plain English — with no developer credentials […]
Anthropic is Paying Space X $45 Billion to Run Claude
Quick Summary A SpaceX securities filing revealed on May 20, 2026 that Anthropic has agreed to pay SpaceX nearly $45 billion over three years for computing power to run its Claude AI models. The payments work out to roughly $1.25 billion a month through May 2029, and the compute comes from SpaceX’s Colossus data centers […]
Google Just Rebuilt Search Around AI: What It Means for AEO
Quick Summary At Google I/O on May 19, 2026, Google announced the biggest upgrade to its Search box in over 25 years, reimagined around AI. AI Mode now runs on a new default model, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and a set of always-on information agents can monitor topics in the background. For AEO, the key point […]
OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Just Joined Anthropic. Why This Is the Biggest Talent Move of 2026
Quick Summary Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s founding members and former Tesla AI director, joined Anthropic on May 19, 2026. He started this week on Anthropic’s pre-training team under Nick Joseph and will help launch a new team focused on using Claude itself to accelerate pre-training research. This is the second OpenAI co-founder to defect […]
Claude Is Staying Ad-Free While ChatGPT Hits an All-Time Referral Low
Quick Summary Anthropic just reaffirmed Claude will stay ad-free permanently, while Statcounter data shows ChatGPT’s AI chatbot referral share dropped to 76.85% in April 2026, its lowest ever recorded. ChatGPT held over 84% just a year ago. Combined with OpenAI rolling out ads in ChatGPT Free and Go tiers, AEO strategies built around ChatGPT alone […]
How to Get Your Law Firm Recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI in 2026
Quick Summary Getting your law firm recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI requires building authority signals AI can verify independently of your website. The four most cited legal platforms in ChatGPT responses are Super Lawyers, Avvo, Martindale-Hubbell, and FindLaw, which means directory completeness matters more than Google rankings alone. Legal is the highest-growth YMYL […]
Google’s First Official AEO Guide Is Here & It’s Worth the Read
Quick Summary On May 15, 2026, Google published its first official guide on optimizing for generative AI features in Search. The headline: AEO and GEO are still SEO from Google’s perspective. The guide also lists five popular tactics site owners can stop worrying about, including llms.txt files and content chunking. Key Takeaways Google’s position: AEO […]
How to Get Your Plumbing, HVAC, or Electrical Business Recommended by ChatGPT and Google AI in 2026
The Short Version 45% of consumers now use AI to find local home services, up from 6% a year ago. But ChatGPT only recommends 1.2% of all local business locations. Plumbers, HVAC companies, electricians, and contractors who win those recommendations have a fully completed Google Business Profile, consistent listings across Yelp, Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Thumbtack, […]
67% of Homebuyers Now Find Their Real Estate Agent on AI. Here’s Why It’s Not You.
Summary 67% of homebuyers now use AI as their primary tool to research real estate agents, but 91% of US agents are completely invisible inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Real estate has the lowest AI search visibility of any major industry in the country at 0.14%, because most agent websites are property search widgets with […]
Why AI Isn’t Recommending Your Business (The 7 Reasons and How to Fix Each One)
Summary If AI isn’t recommending your business, the cause is almost always one of seven fixable problems: blocked AI crawlers in your robots.txt, content that buries the answer instead of leading with it, inconsistent brand information across the web, no third-party mentions or reviews, missing or broken structured data, stale content that hasn’t been updated, […]