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  1. NLWeb + AutoRAG: Grounded AI Search with Publisher Control

    Microsoft and Cloudflare’s push to make websites “AI‑search friendly” is more than a product announcement — it’s an attempt to rewire how content is discovered, attributed, and monetized on the web by combining Microsoft’s NLWeb protocol with Cloudflare’s managed AutoRAG pipeline. The idea is...
  2. Bing Copilot Search: Floating Box and Keyword Prompts Reshape Discovery

    Microsoft quietly expanded the Bing interface this summer by adding keyword suggestions adjacent to a floating Copilot search box, a small-looking tweak with outsized implications for how users discover, refine, and are nudged toward conversational search—an experiment first surfaced by industry...
  3. NLWeb and AutoRAG: Turning Web Pages into AI Conversational Endpoints

    Microsoft and Cloudflare have quietly handed website owners a practical toolset to turn ordinary pages into AI‑friendly, conversational endpoints — a move that could accelerate the shift from traditional, keyword‑based search toward answer engines and materially reshape how traffic, attribution...
  4. Vivaldi's Stand Against AI in Browsers: Privacy, Human Agency, Publisher Visibility

    Jon von Tetzchner’s renewed vow to keep generative AI out of Vivaldi’s browser has turned what might have been a niche product decision into a full‑scale manifesto about the future of the web — and a direct challenge to Google and Microsoft’s push to bake AI into the browsing experience...
  5. Perplexity Comet Plus: A Revenue-Sharing Model for AI News

    Perplexity’s latest play changes the calculus of how AI services can — and might — compensate the news ecosystem: the company’s Comet Plus subscription promises to funnel a substantial share of revenue back to publishers whose work is surfaced by its AI assistant and browser, while also arriving...
  6. Microsoft Xbox Cloud Gaming Considers a Lower-Cost Cloud-Only Tier

    Microsoft’s Xbox cloud ambitions appear to be entering a new phase: executives are publicly acknowledging that many subscribers use Xbox Cloud Gaming primarily for streaming, and Microsoft is actively exploring a lower-cost, cloud-only entry point that would decouple xCloud access from the full...
  7. Google Gemini: A Multi-Channel US AI Monetization Playbook

    Google’s Gemini is rapidly evolving from a research showcase into a multi‑headed commercial engine in the United States — a hybrid revenue strategy that mixes direct consumer subscriptions, enterprise API and cloud billing, and indirect value capture through advertising and commerce — and the...
  8. Transforming Bing: AI-Powered Search with Enhanced Publisher Features

    Ladies and gentlemen of WindowsForum.com, it's the dawn of a new era for search engine AI as Microsoft once again shakes up the search experience with its Bing platform. This time, Bing's search interface—powered by the trusty AI Copilot—has undergone a significant makeover to create a more...
  9. Windows 7 Retail threatens to ban Steam

    Steam, The world's biggest digital distribution platform for games is under attack as MCV reports, they understand that key retailers will drop titles that integrate the popular Steam service as fears mount that the service has a ‘monopoly’ on the download market. Insiders say Steam, run by...