

Michele Spagnuolo allegedly traded under the handle ‘AlphaRaccoon’, netting $1.2m on Google’s Year-in-Search outcomes. It is the second federal criminal case tied to Polymarket. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Google information-security engineer based in Switzerland, with using internal Google search-trend data to bet $2.7m on […]
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A study of 75,000 brands by SEO platform Ahrefs has found that YouTube mentions are the strongest correlated signal for whether a brand appears in AI-generated search results, outperforming every other factor the researchers tested across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overviews. YouTube mentions, defined as any time a brand name appears in […]
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YouTube has announced that it will begin automatically detecting and labelling videos that contain significant photorealistic AI-generated content, using internal signals rather than relying on creators to disclose it themselves. The change marks a shift from the platform’s existing system, which has depended on voluntary creator disclosure since it launched in 2024. The automatic labels […]