That prompted us to investigate AI Overviews for branded searches on a larger scale. We found that AI Overviews now appear for 83% of branded queries, potentially reducing clicks to brands’ own websites and giving third-party sources like Wikipedia, YouTube and LinkedIn a bigger say in how a brand appears in search results. AI Overviews … Read more
How to Get Out of Day-to-Day Work A leader I coach wants to spend less time running the business and more time leading. I sent him two emails. Hi Bob, (Not his real name.) Here are the key points we came up with for your next meeting. Focus on the way you want to show … Read more
Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the ride-hailing company of violating California law by misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, instead of employees. The company said in a regulatory filing that it believes the settlement will allow it to avoid the “costs and distraction of protracted litigation and enable management … Read more
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a “State of the Force” address on Wednesday to launch a new effort to study how war may be fought as tech advances rapidly. It’s being called Project Meridian. Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will co-lead the project. They’ll be joined by others … Read more
LeadershipNow 140: September 2026 Compilation Here is a selection of Posts from September 2026 that you will want to check out: See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Posted by Michael McKinney at 07:59 AM Permalink | Comments (0) | This … Read more
Differentiate Combine those two signals and you get a positioning idea: pitch Martinelli’s as the original mocktail. The brand existed before Prohibition, before Coca-Cola even. Ask an LLM what the original mocktail is, and it’ll tell you Shirley Temple. That’s wrong. The Shirley Temple was created in the 1930s. Martinelli’s predates it by decades. Execute … Read more
The buzzy AI startup Instinct has just revealed a new potential revenue stream: product recommendations. Unfortunately for the company, the rollout is already rubbing some users the wrong way. Overnight, the AI agent began pushing product suggestions to users as part of a new feature called Instinct Selections, an effort to curate personalized lists for … Read more
The U.S. government on Tuesday launched its very own AI chatbot — or do we have to call it an SI chatbot now? Regardless, the engineers who worked on the chatbot would undoubtedly know that, as a government-hosted, public-facing AI tool, the internet was going to red team the heck out of this thing. The … Read more
How to Become Scary Good The vampire at my doctor’s office loves Halloween. She has a full-length bloody Halloween poster on her door. She’s scary good at her job. She finds a vein, sucks my blood, and I don’t feel a thing. Halloween is more than a holiday for her. It’s a family reunion. Become … Read more
Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora told investors last week that it expects to have more than 30,000 self-driving trucks on the road generating $5 billion in annual revenue by the end of 2030 — an audacious plan considering it expects to end 2026 with just 200 driverless trucks and an $80 million revenue run rate. … Read more