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What ChatGPT's two models and Rightmove's new app reveal about AI search in 2026

This week: how GPT-5.3 Instant and GPT-5.4 Thinking behave differently and what it means for your brand, why Rightmove's ChatGPT app launch raises a bigger question about discovery, and the news clips worth your time from Harry Clarkson-Bennett of The Telegraph.

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OpenAI rolls back shopping and Anthropic closes the revenue gap

ChatGPT's checkout dream is over for now, and OpenAI has a major rival breathing down its neck. Anthropic's revenue has doubled in two months and the AI arms race enters geopolitics.

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News in an AI search world: What The Telegraph's SEO Director really thinks about AI, zero-click search and the future of publishing

The way people discover news is changing faster than most publishers can adapt. In this edition of Franc Talking, I'm joined by Harry Clarkson-Bennett, SEO Director at The Telegraph, one of the best news SEOs in the business, on what AI search actually means for journalism, trust, and the future of a 170-year institution.

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No ads for Perplexity, OpenAI boosts revenue forecasts, and Google will introduce more links

This week in AI search: Perplexity has rejected ads to protect user trust, while OpenAI is scaling aggressively with higher revenue forecasts and rising costs. Meanwhile, Google is trying to address publisher concerns by promising more links as AI-driven, zero-click search continues to grow.

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ChatGPT ads out in the wild, Cloudflare announces markdown and AI video rocks Hollywood once again

This week in AI Search 👉 ChatGPT ads are beginning to surface, Cloudflare is reshaping how content is delivered to AI agents, and generative video is once again pushing into Hollywood.

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Yext's Christian J Ward on why AI is shifting from search to dialogue and what brands must do now to stay visible in the era of AI Search

From the death of surveillance marketing to GPT-6's memory revolution, Christian J Ward breaks down the three fragmentations reshaping AI search - and why your structured data strategy is now make or break.

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