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July 15, 2026: Apple opened its rebuilt Siri, which answers by searching the web, to the public in the iOS 27 beta

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Three stories, and the update that just put a web searching AI assistant into the hands of hundreds of millions of iPhone owners.

July 14, 2026: New small business survey – the split between companies winning with AI and companies stuck testing it comes down to leadership alignment and a written policy, not budget

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Today’s story is about a new survey that says the AI gap between small businesses isn’t about who can afford the tools anymore. It’s about who actually wrote a plan down.

July 13, 2026: A new Thryv survey finds 66 percent of US small businesses now use AI, up from 55 percent a year ago, but 70 percent say they need more training to use it effectively

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Google’s AI has been calling your business and quietly updating your listing based on the answers, and today, for the first time, you can actually see what it wrote down. ▶ LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE July 13, 2026: Google confirmed its Business Profi | RSS.com In this episode Sources Want your business to be the…

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July 12, 2026: UPDATE on the Fractl and Search Engine Land keyword study covered July 6: the 29 percent search decline is not evenly spread, and the vertical breakdown matters more than the headline

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Three stories today, one open rumor, and one thing you can do before lunch. After two years of arguing about whether Google’s AI answers steal your website’s clicks, somebody finally ran the experiment.

July 11, 2026: OpenAI is shutting down its ChatGPT Atlas browser on August 9 and folding its features into a new ChatGPT desktop app built around ChatGPT Work, a business focused AI agent powered by the new GPT-5.6 model

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OpenAI kills a browser to build something bigger, a PR study on who’s actually showing up in AI answers, and we close the loop on yesterday’s Google reviews bug.