Four stories, and Google's own AI just proved it'll trust a stranger's blog post over your actual business.

In this episode:

• Google's local AI Overviews are citing a single self-promotional listicle instead of local businesses' own sites.

• Apple negotiates nine-figure publisher deals to power Siri AI with real-time news.

• Google Merchant Center will split YouTube affiliate sales out of "organic" traffic starting August 24.

• OpenAI's own data show the gap between AI "frontier" firms and typical firms nearly tripled since January.

Full transcript and every source: aiindustryreport.com

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