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nilay patel

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Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
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Google Zero in the NYT - thanks @kateconger.com ;) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed nytimes.com
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  • Human traffic to finance, publishing and retail sites fell nearly 40 percent between June 2025 and April 2026, per Cloudflare data cited by the Times.
  • Google's AI Mode keeps users inside Google in roughly 75 percent of sessions, with queries running about three times as long as before.
  • The Verge's Nilay Patel says 'Google Zero' has arrived for publishers; Google's Liz Reid counters that AI Search still sends billions of clicks weekly.
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I don't know about Gemini but AI yes. In fact the papers are getting good enough to be a problem www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review | The Verge theverge.com
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  • AI-generated academic papers now regularly pass journal peer review, evading both human reviewers and automated AI-detection tools.
  • Scientists identify mandatory data-sharing and reproducibility checks as the only remaining procedural safeguards capable of catching AI-fabricated research.
  • The crisis extends beyond arXiv's hallucinated-citation problem to affect broad peer-reviewed publishing across multiple scientific disciplines.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 3 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 3 from the directory shared this · 86d ago
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this new episode of the vergecast about how google’s push into ai summaries has broken a tenuous social contract with publishers is REALLY good it’s such an obvious example of google’s hubris that they assumed siphoning traffic and ruining their own ad business wouldn’t have a…

You can't ignore Google Zero anymore | The Vergecast youtu.be View on Bluesky →
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