AI Lets Users Decide What Appears in Their Feeds Facebook is introducing a major change to how users control the content they see. With new AI-powered customization tools, people can now communicate directly with Facebook’s recommendation algorithms using natural language,

Claude Moves Directly Into Google Docs, Sheets and Slides Anthropic is expanding Claude from a conversational AI into an AI work layer embedded directly inside Google Workspace. Starting in public beta across all paid Claude plans, users can now access

OpenAI’s New “Dots” Aim to Become Always-On AI Coworkers That Work for You 24/7 OpenAI has introduced dots, a new type of always-on AI agent designed to work continuously on a user’s behalf. Unlike a traditional chatbot that primarily responds

OpenAI Expands GPT-6 With Sol and Luna, and Cuts API Prices in Half OpenAI is expanding the GPT-6 model family with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, two models designed to bring advances introduced with GPT-6 Astra to faster and more

AISQ Progress Update #10–Fall G2 Awards, Ghost Doctor, and a New Connector for AI Assistants Fall is bringing a lot of good news our way this time around: fresh G2 recognition for two of our tools, a major WP Ghost

OpenArt Arena Says There Is No Single “Best” AI Model OpenArt has launched OpenArt Arena, a public benchmark designed to help creators and enterprises choose AI image and video models according to the specific work they need to complete. Instead

Meta’s Muse Wants to Run Your Digital Life, but Can It Earn Your Trust? Meta has introduced Muse, a personal AI agent designed to carry out everyday tasks rather than simply answer questions. Available initially in the U.S., Muse can

OpenAI Brings Epic Health Records and Official Medical Data Directly Into ChatGPT OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT for Healthcare with two major capabilities aimed at bringing more of the information healthcare teams use into a single governed workspace: a new integration

14 Days Journey to GEO – Day 5 We’ll be trying to look at the solution today for the big gap in online visibility and the loss of traffic and clients for many businesses all over the world. We all

14 Days Journey to GEO – Day 4 Welcome to Day 4 of your Journey to GEO. Quick recap: Days 1, 2 and 3 have focused on showing you the shift that happened. In my blog post about Why I

OpenAI Finally Builds a Teen-Specific ChatGPT OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version of ChatGPT designed with additional safety protections and education-focused features for younger users. The launch comes years after teenagers began using ChatGPT and follows lawsuits and

Anthropic Will Watermark Claude’s AI-Generated Text Under New EU Rules Anthropic says it will begin watermarking text generated by its AI models, including Claude, as part of its effort to comply with new European regulations. The company says models released

Meta Enters the AI Coding War With Muse Code Meta has made its most aggressive move yet into AI-assisted software development with the beta launch of Muse Code, a terminal-based coding agent, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused version of

AI Is Rewriting the Web: Deep Pages Feed the Machines, but Homepages Win the Humans Artificial intelligence is not simply reducing website traffic. It is fundamentally changing how information is discovered, consumed, and acted upon. Traditional search engines sent users

Synthesia’s Next Act: AI Avatars That Coach, Challenge, and Measure Performance Synthesia is expanding beyond AI-generated training videos with Roleplay Sessions, a new enterprise product that lets employees practice real-world conversations with interactive AI avatars. Instead of simply presenting information,

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 —

Boost AI Indexing and AI Search Engine Discovery The purpose is to become the brand AI recommends. It all starts with having your pages indexed and displayed in Bing (more important than Google search right now, because ChatGPT and Perplexity

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

14 Days Journey to GEO – Day 1 Thanks for opening Day 1 and taking a very important step in the future of your online marketing activities. I posted the screenshot above for you, so you can see that small

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

You’re Invited! Steal our Agency Workflows and Build Profitable Retainers New webinar. Register now to see how we save 10+ hours a week.  Creating workflows that actually scale is one of the hardest parts of running an agency. Especially when you’re trying

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