
Google lets big creators claim Search profiles, but only if they are already huge
Google is turning Search into a personal branding layer for a limited class of creators and publishers, raising the stakes for attention, identity, and discovery.
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Google is turning Search into a personal branding layer for a limited class of creators and publishers, raising the stakes for attention, identity, and discovery.

A Fortune experiment shows how vendors selling wellness drugs and research-only peptides are routing payments through stablecoins to dodge banks, and why that matters to regulators, founders, and payments teams.

The internet-born creepypasta just crossed into studio-scale success, and the early payoff is clear for filmmakers betting online IP can travel.

Flourish's huge war chest and reported $2.5 billion valuation signal a big bet on neurons, not just more compute, reshaping how AI research could be funded and judged.

Toronto researchers showed a small open-weight model could autonomously find, exploit, and spread across a 33-host test network, even adapting to newly disclosed flaws at runtime.

The CMA says Google must add clearer links, give publishers an opt-out from AI search features, and publish compliance reports within nine months.

The Citron Research founder faces up to 25 years in prison for a scheme that weaponized retail sentiment for personal profit.

The new round gives AlphaSense a bigger war chest and a louder signal that enterprise AI search is still commanding serious capital.

Cheap, local data from homes and factories is giving China a scaling advantage in humanoid robots while the U.S. leans on research and outsourcing.

A new worm can autonomously spread through networks, raising alarms for cybersecurity teams and executives.

A landmark CMA ruling gives news organizations and creators the power to block their content from powering Google's AI Overviews.

The CMA says this new regulatory power shifts negotiation leverage, forcing Google to rethink its content deals.