Canva Code 2.0 Brings AI Website Building to Everyone Canva has launched Canva Code 2.0, an upgraded AI-powered tool that allows people to create interactive websites, apps, presentations, and digital experiences using plain-language prompts. The feature is now available to

Meta’s Muse Image Sparks Backlash Over AI Use of Public Instagram Photos Meta has launched Muse Image, a new AI image generator from Meta Superintelligence Labs, available for free through the Meta AI app, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp. The tool

Z.ai’s ZCode Push Turns AI Coding Into a Geopolitical Toolchain Fight Z.ai, the Beijing-based AI lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, has launched ZCode, a free desktop “Agentic Development Environment” built for its flagship GLM-5.2 model. The article frames ZCode

AISQ Progress Update #7 – AI Discovery Is Changing Everything, and GEO Academy Is Here to Help You Keep Up If you’ve been wondering whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews are changing how businesses get found online —

Android 17 Puts Gemini at the Center of Google’s Device Strategy Google has released the final version of Android 17, along with Wear OS 7, bringing a mix of AI-powered features, multitasking upgrades, security improvements, and smartwatch enhancements. The update

Google Says AI Search Optimization Is Still SEO Google’s guidance makes one thing very clear: website owners do not need to abandon SEO or chase a new category of “AI search hacks” to appear in generative AI features like AI

AISQ Progress Updates #6 – Free GEO Training, Smarter Marketing Systems, and a Clear Case for Doing Things Differently There’s a lot happening in the AISQ | Squirrly world right now, and this rundown is here to catch you up

Google Gives Site Owners a New Window Into AI Search Visibility Google is launching new Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console, giving website owners a dedicated way to see how their sites appear inside Google’s generative AI features.

Perplexity Wants Your Laptop to Think Like a Mini Data Center Perplexity is introducing a hybrid AI system that splits work between a user’s personal device and cloud servers. The system will be added to Personal Computer, Perplexity’s AI agent

DeepSWE Shakes Up AI Coding Benchmarks and Puts GPT-5.5 on Top Datacurve has released a new AI coding benchmark called DeepSWE, and its findings challenge the way the AI industry has been measuring coding ability. According to the article, popular

AISQ Progress Update #5 – Securing Your Foundation, Monetizing Smarter, and Getting Recommended by AI From the bedrock of website security, to smarter affiliate strategies, to getting your brand visible in the age of AI — this update covers ground

Google Search Is Getting AI Agents That Watch the Web for You Google is pushing Search beyond the old “type a query, get a list of links” model. At Google I/O 2026, the company revealed new agentic AI capabilities in

Your Brand Is Being Seen Inside AI Tools Far More Than Your Analytics Show How to estimate the real audience size when ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity mention you — and why most marketers are dramatically undervaluing this channel There’s a

Perceptron Mk1 Promises Frontier-Level Video AI at a Fraction of Big Lab Prices Summary Perceptron Inc. has launched Perceptron Mk1, a proprietary video analysis reasoning model designed to understand real-world video, live feeds, spatial relationships, object dynamics, and cause-and-effect events.

The Data Is In: AI Content Ranks, Converts, and Grows Traffic — Here’s How to Put It to Work for Your Business May 2026 | Research-backed by 15+ independent studies A lot of businesses are still sitting on the fence

OpenAI and AWS Bring Codex, GPT-5.5, and Managed Agents to Amazon Bedrock OpenAI and AWS are expanding their strategic partnership to help enterprises use OpenAI capabilities directly inside their AWS environments. The announcement introduces three limited-preview launches: OpenAI models on

Meta’s New AI Push: Employee Keystrokes and Clicks Become Training Data Meta is introducing a new internal tracking tool that will log how employees use company computers and apps, including keystrokes and mouse clicks, to help train its AI models.

Google Turns Repetitive AI Browser Tasks Into One-Click “Skills” in Chrome Google is expanding Google’s AI capabilities inside Google Chrome with a new feature called Skills, designed to help users save and reuse their favorite AI prompts across different web

AISQ Progress Update #2 – Smart SEO in Practice, New Awards Earned, and AI Crawler Protection Spring 2026 has been a busy season in the AISQ | Squirrly universe, and there’s a lot worth catching up on. From a dramatic

Z.ai’s Open-Source Model Pushes AI Into 8-Hour Autonomous Engineering Z.ai has introduced GLM-5.1, a new open-source large language model released under the MIT License, built for long-horizon autonomous engineering tasks that can run up to eight hours without human intervention.

Important AISQ Update and the Most Important Squirrly Limited Update We’ve reached our End Game in the beginning of April 2026. We’ve been working towards this since 2012. The full web presence engine. But to be honest, we’ve been working

Slack’s AI Glow-Up: Salesforce Unveils 30 New Features to Turn Chat Into Action Salesforce has announced a major AI-focused overhaul of Slack, introducing 30 new features rolling out over the coming months. The centerpiece of the update is a significantly

Why OpenAI Suddenly Killed Sora (And What It Means) OpenAI has announced it is shutting down Sora, its AI video generation app, social platform, and API access to its Sora 2 model family. The decision came abruptly, with no exact

[Learn from the Experts] The Truth About AEO/GEO How will you know if you can get cited by AI? Who ends up being shown in AI Search Engines: Perplexity AI, AI Overviews in Google (powered by Gemini), ChatGPT web searches

AI Shopping Gets a Human Check: World Launches Agent Verification Tool As AI-powered shopping agents become more common, a new problem is emerging: how do websites know a real human is behind those automated purchases? World, a startup co-founded by

Google Upgrades Gemini: AI Now Creates Docs, Sheets, and Slides from One Prompt Google has unveiled major upgrades to its Gemini AI within Google Workspace, enabling the assistant to automatically create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other files by pulling information

A Y Combinator-backed startup called 14.ai, founded by married duo Marie Schneegans and Michael Fester, is building an AI-native customer support agency designed to replace traditional support teams at startups. Instead of selling software, the company takes over the entire

[AGENCY LIFE] 3 Hero Section Patterns That Instantly Clarify Your Agency’s Value One of the hardest parts of building an agency website isn’t design. It’s deciding what to say first. You’re trying to: ALL of that has to happen… above the

Anthropic has released a new mobile feature for Claude Code called Remote Control, allowing users to issue commands and manage coding tasks from their iPhone or Android devices. Until now, Claude Code was limited to desktop apps, terminals, and IDEs.

THIS IS THE WORLD’S NEW MARKETING INFRASTRUCTURE. Modern marketing doesn’t break because people lack tools.It breaks because tools don’t work together. AISQ is not a collection of apps you log into.It is a control unit — a living marketing infrastructure

Anthropic is rolling out Claude Sonnet 4.6, calling it the most capable Sonnet model so far and describing it as a broad upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. A headline feature is a

ChatGPT Enters the Ad Era: What OpenAI’s New Test Means for Users OpenAI has begun testing ads inside ChatGPT, marking a major shift in how the popular AI chatbot is funded. The ads will appear only for users on the

Next Level Keyword Research: What Actually Happens When You Enter ONE Keyword. Orion AI Does the Heavy Work. Orion AI is built by Squirrly Limited (now trading as AISQ) and it uses an AEO/GEO baseline for finding keywords that it

Alibaba’s Qwen team has unveiled Qwen3-Coder-Next, an open-source, agent-first coding model designed to compete head-on with the world’s leading proprietary coding assistants. Built with an ultra-sparse architecture and released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, the model promises elite reasoning,

Contextual AI has launched Agent Composer, a new platform designed to help enterprises turn retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems into production-ready AI agents. Backed by investors like Bezos Expeditions and Bain Capital Ventures, the startup argues that enterprise AI hasn’t stalled

OpenAI is preparing to enter the hardware space with its first AI-powered ChatGPT device, expected to be unveiled in the second half of 2026. According to comments from a top OpenAI executive and reports from Axios, the device may take

Doctors and health tech experts agree that AI has a growing role in healthcare, but many are uneasy about using chatbots directly as medical advisors for patients. While tools like the newly announced ChatGPT Health aim to offer more privacy

Important News About the Affiliate Programs of AISQ for AISQ Meteor, Squirrly SEO, Education Cloud PLUS, Squirrly Social and More. In 2026, we’ve made it easier than ever for our thousands of partners around the world to choose an affiliate platform and

Why AI Feels Generic: Replit’s CEO Says “Taste” Is the Missing Ingredient In a candid discussion on the Beyond the Pilot podcast, Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, argues that much of today’s AI output feels bland, repetitive, and unreliable. He

Recap of Biggest 2025 Changes to Our Products As 2025 comes to an end, I want to say a sincere thank you for being part of the AISQ Community: whether you came from Squirrly SEO, Hide My WP Ghost, Education

Dating by the Soundtrack of Your Soul: How Vinylly Is Rewriting Modern Matchmaking Vinylly is a dating app built on a simple but powerful idea: music reveals who we really are. Instead of relying on bios and photos, the app

OpenAI Escalates Its ‘Code Red’ With Faster, Smarter Image Generation OpenAI has launched a new image generation model, GPT Image 1.5, as part of its ongoing push to reclaim AI leadership amid rising competition from Google. The update promises faster

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Context Is the New Moat: Why Marketing AI Fails Without Brand Intelligence This article argues that AI’s biggest limitation in marketing isn’t power, it’s context. While generative models can produce content quickly, they often miss the strategic nuances that define

AWS Lets Enterprises Build Custom Frontier AI with Nova Forge Amazon Web Services just made a major play in the AI race. At AWS re:Invent, CEO Matt Garman unveiled four upgraded Nova 2 models along with Nova Forge, a new

ChatGPT Enters the Shopping Arena With Personalized Product Research OpenAI has introduced a new “shopping research” experience inside ChatGPT, designed to help users discover, understand, and compare products in a far more detailed and personalized way. Rolling out to all

Microsoft Turns Windows Into the First “Agentic OS” Microsoft is reinventing Windows for a new era of autonomous AI agents, transforming the 40-year-old operating system into what executives are calling the world’s first “agentic OS.” Announced at Ignite 2025, Windows

OpenAI’s Sora vs Google’s Veo 3: The Battle for the AI Video Crown In a head-to-head test between OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3, tech reviewer Katelyn Chedraoui (CNET) found both AI video generators impressive but ultimately gave the

The Most Loved, Most Shared, Most Talked-About Indie Software Launches of the Season From July to September 2025, hundreds of indie founders and creators took the stage through AISQ /Radio.They didn’t just launch — they showed up. They shared their

Google’s AI Mode Now Books Concert Tickets and Spa Appointments Google is taking its AI-powered Search experience to the next level. The company announced new “agentic capabilities” for AI Mode, allowing users to book event tickets and beauty or wellness

AISQ /Radio Billboard: Top 5 Software Launches (week 4 October) Celebrating the Indie Founders Who Moved People, Not Budgets Every week, we track engagement across all the new product launches featured on AISQ /Radio’s YouTube Shorts — shares, likes, and

IBM Shrinks AI Power Into Your Browser with Granite 4.0 Nano Models IBM has unveiled a new family of open-source small language models (SLMs) called Granite 4.0 Nano, designed to run directly on consumer hardware — even inside a web

Every week, we track real engagement — likes, shares, and comments — on the latest product launches featured in AISQ /Radio’s YouTube Shorts. Why? Because unlike certain “launch platforms” that reward ad spend, we reward hustle. 📊 The founders who

OpenAI has officially launched ChatGPT Atlas, a new AI-powered web browser designed to make online browsing more conversational and intuitive. Available now for MacOS, with Windows, iOS, and Android versions on the way, Atlas brings ChatGPT’s intelligence directly into the

Every week, we track real engagement on AISQ /Radio’s YouTube Shorts — shares, comments, and the power of founder hustle. No ads. No paid boosts. Just pure momentum. ⚡ Founders Who Showed Up These creators didn’t wait for algorithms —

Salesforce has announced two major collaborations — one with OpenAI and another with Stripe — aimed at integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities into its ecosystem and revolutionizing online commerce. The partnership with OpenAI embeds Salesforce’s CRM directly into ChatGPT, giving users

Every week, we track real engagement on AISQ /Radio’s YouTube Shorts — shares and comments. No ads. No budgets. Just pure hustle. 📊 Founders who show up, rally their users, and bring their network earn the spotlight. 🎖️ Honorary Mentions

At its DevDay event in San Francisco, OpenAI unveiled AgentKit, a new suite designed to simplify how developers and enterprises build, manage, and deploy AI agents. The system aims to replace fragmented workflows and bring everything—agent creation, chat integration, and

OpenAI has unveiled Sora, a new AI-powered video app that lets users generate and share short AI videos — including ones spun from copyrighted content. The app introduces a TikTok-style stream for AI creations and raises immediate copyright concerns across

Artificial intelligence isn’t slowing down—in fact, 2026 is shaping up to be the year when AI truly reshapes daily life, industries, and even geopolitics. From autonomous agents running errands to AI-powered healthcare tools, the technology will become more embedded, more

Every week, we track real engagement on AISQ /Radio’s YouTube Shorts: shares and comments. Not ads. Not budgets. Just hustle. 📊 Founders who show up, rally their users, and bring their network with them earn the spotlight. 🎖️ Honorary Mentions

OpenAI is rolling out new safeguards for teenagers using ChatGPT following rising concerns about parasocial attachments to AI and a lawsuit involving a teen’s suicide. The company will now segment users by age, restrict certain types of conversations for under-18s,

Every week, we track the real engagement on the indie tools featured in AISQ /Radio’s YouTube Shorts — comments and shares. ❌ Not ads. ❌ Not budgets. ✅ Pure hustle. 💥 This week’s Top 5 proved it — they didn’t

The rise of AI agents—digital assistants capable of making complex decisions, including purchases—is set to transform marketing in a fundamental way. Traditional metrics like clicks, impressions, bounce rates, and even social engagement are losing relevance because agents don’t shop, browse,

Every week we track engagement on the indie tools we feature in AISQ /Radio’s YouTube Shorts — likes, comments, and shares. Not ads. Not budgets. We reward hustle. 💥 This week’s Top 5 proved it — they grabbed attention and

OpenAI is rolling out new parental controls for ChatGPT in the coming month, giving parents the ability to link accounts with their teenagers, set age-appropriate rules, and receive alerts if their child shows signs of “acute distress.” The move follows

🎧 AISQ /Radio Billboard – Week 4 Results (25-31 Aug) We track indie launches that do more than ship — they spark conversations. Billboard rankings = shares + comments + likes.Not ads. Not hype. Just authentic presence. 💥 This week’s

Anthropic has launched a research preview of its Claude for Chrome extension, giving select users the ability to interact with its AI agent directly in the browser. The tool can maintain context from the user’s browsing session, assist in tasks,

🎧 AISQ /Radio Billboard – Week 3 (18 -24 Aug) Each week, we chart the indie launches that made noise, sparked engagement, and rallied communities. At AISQ /Radio, the scoreboard is built on authentic actions: shares, likes, and comments. Not

Chinese startup DeepSeek has upended the AI landscape with the quiet release of DeepSeek V3.1, a massive 685-billion parameter open-source model that rivals leading systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. Unlike its U.S. counterparts, which keep their most advanced models locked

🎧 AISQ /Radio Billboard – Week 2 Results Are In (11-17 Aug) Every week, we spotlight indie launches that didn’t just ship — they sparked conversation. At AISQ /Radio, we track real engagement: shares, likes, and comments from the Shorts

OpenAI’s GPT-5 was supposed to simplify the ChatGPT experience with an intelligent “model router” that automatically picked the best AI for each query. Instead, the company has brought back — and even expanded — the model picker. Users now have

🎧 AISQ /Radio Billboard – Week 4 Results ( August 4 – August 10) Every week, we spotlight the indie launches that didn’t just ship — they sparked conversation. At AISQ /Radio, we track real engagement: shares, likes, and comments

OpenAI has released two new open-weight language models — marking the company’s first open model release since GPT-2 in 2019. These models are optimized for advanced reasoning tasks like coding, math, and health queries — and can even run on

Every week, we spotlight the indie launches that didn’t just ship — they sparked conversation. At AISQ /Radio, we track real engagement: shares, likes, and comments from the Shorts we feature. No ad spend. No hype machines. Just authentic momentum.

Week of July 14–23, 2025 (we call it: Week 3) 🎧 AISQ /Radio Billboard – Week 3 Results Are In Every week, we spotlight the indie launches that didn’t just ship — they sparked conversation. At AISQ /Radio, we track

OpenAI has launched Study Mode for ChatGPT, a groundbreaking new feature designed to transform how students learn with AI. Rather than simply spitting out answers, Study Mode engages users with Socratic questioning and step-by-step guidance, acting more like a thoughtful

Amazon is diving deeper into AI wearables with its acquisition of Bee, a startup known for its voice-recording bracelet and Apple Watch app. The deal, which hasn’t officially closed yet, was first revealed via a LinkedIn post by Bee co-founder

Don’t doubt it. We’re living through the biggest shift in business since the invention of the internet. But while the world debates what AI might do someday—and what jobs it could replace next… A rising wave of forward-thinking creators and business owners

OpenEvidence, an AI-powered platform founded by Daniel Nadler, has raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation to help doctors manage the overwhelming flood of medical research. The software scans millions of peer-reviewed studies and delivers precise, citation-backed results to

American Airlines is turning to artificial intelligence not just to modernize travel — but to make it feel a little more human. In its latest tech overhaul, the airline is using AI to predict if passengers might miss their connecting

Google is officially rolling out AI Mode, a new feature that transforms the traditional search engine into a more conversational, chatbot-style experience. Announced at Google I/O 2025 and now available for all U.S. users over 13, AI Mode builds on

Google is rolling out an experimental “Audio Overviews” feature inside Search that reads AI-generated summaries of certain queries aloud. Powered by the company’s latest Gemini models and housed in Google’s Labs program, the tool offers a podcast-style playback experience—with links