Katherine Blunt
Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Writer at Freelance
@WSJ reporter covering Google/Alphabet and more. Author of California Burning. Articles, book reviews: https://t.co/94UrJsEars @katherineblunt.bsky.social
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Katherine Blunt
June 18, 2025 12:00 pm ETWaymo is pushing to deploy driverless vehicles in prized but challenging New York City. The white, camera-laden cars will return to the city next month for the first time since 2021, when Waymo conducted preliminary mapping in part of Manhattan, to do more mapping as well as testing, the company said Wednesday. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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2 weeks ago |
jp.wsj.com | Isabella Simonetti |Katherine Blunt
人工知能（AI）がもたらす変革がオンラインニュースをのみ込もうとしている。 チャットボット（自動会話プログラム）がグーグル検索に取って代わりつつあることで、ユーザーはリンクをクリックする必要がなくなり、ニュースメディアが長年頼ってきた検索結果からサイトへの流入が大きく落ち込んでいる。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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2 weeks ago |
benton.org | Isabella Simonetti |Katherine Blunt
The AI armageddon is here for online news publishers. Chatbots are replacing Google searches, eliminating the need to click on blue links and tanking referrals to news sites. As a result, traffic that publishers relied on for years is plummeting. Google’s introduction of AI Overviews, which summarize search results at the top of the page, dented traffic to features like vacation guides and health tips, as well as to product review sites.
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2 weeks ago |
buff.ly | Isabella Simonetti |Katherine Blunt
对在线新闻出版商而言，人工智能(AI)引发的末日浩劫已经降临。聊天机器人正在取代谷歌搜索，用户不再需要点击蓝色链接，新闻网站的引荐流量也因此骤降。受此影响，出版商多年来赖以生存的流量正在急剧下降。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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2 weeks ago |
buff.ly | Katherine Blunt
谷歌(Google)周二向多个部门的美国员工提出了自愿离职补偿方案，这是该公司采取的众多成本削减措施之一，而削减成本的目的是要为规模数以十亿美元计的AI支出提供资金。相关方案提供给了搜索和广告部门，以及研究、工程和公司其他领域的员工。谷歌多年来一直在裁减员工，与此同时，该公司也投入了数百亿美元用于开发尖端的人工智能(AI)模型和系统。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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New today: Google is beginning a rollout of AI Mode to everyone in the U.S. to more directly compete with the wave of chatbots that threaten the old search model. It's a substantial change to search as competition heats up. More to come from I/O! https://t.co/lRIUo4HYpg
This Friday, I'm giving a lunch hour talk at Stanford GSB about wildfire challenges in California and beyond. Come join us, or register to watch online. https://t.co/k9ELuLrmUV
It remains to be seen whether power lines played a role in the fires in LA, but as the winds picked up this week, the utilities in the area took different approaches. SCE proactively cut power. LADWP did not. It doesn't have a plan for that. My latest: https://t.co/qtus7JIVWS
