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Mistral's model comes to Firefox Smart Window
Mozilla is adding Mistral Small 4 to Smart Window, Firefox's AI browsing mode, and opening the beta in France with French support.
Read News · Search 1 min readCloudflare now blocks AI bots on ad pages by default
Since September 15, training and agent bots are blocked by default on the ad pages of many sites that use Cloudflare.
Read News · Search 1 min readGemini in Chrome on Android starts handling bookings for users
Google opened Gemini in Chrome to all US Android users on August 18. Auto Browse, on paid plans, handles tasks for them.
Read News · Search 1 min readThe Gemini app passes 1 billion monthly users
The app generates more than 150 million images a day, and Google's open model Gemma has passed a billion downloads.
Read News · Search 1 min readAI-driven orders on Shopify tripled in a year
Shopify's revenue grew 34% in the second quarter. Orders from AI channels tripled, and classic search did not decline.
Read Data · Search & AI 5 min readAI is not sending you clicks — but it is reading you
Every AI chatbot combined still sends under 1% of web traffic. Reading that as "not worth it" gets the story exactly backwards.
Read Data · Search & AI 4 min readDo AI-referred visitors convert better?
Fewer but better, they say. The data says it depends: yes in research-heavy categories, no in impulse ones.
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