A new Reuters Institute report by Nic Newman, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Richard Fletcher surveyed audiences in nine countries, finding 51% now use AI chatbots weekly (49% in the US), a faster adoption curve than smartphones or the internet saw in the US. The report also found widespread 'incidental' exposure to AI, with 57% encountering AI-generated search summaries weekly and roughly a fifth seeing AI labels or summaries on news content, while AI agents remain largely unused, with 67% reporting no use in the past week.
niemanlab.org
· 2026-11-11
A published guide explains a workaround that lets users turn off Google's AI Overviews feature, which automatically generates AI summaries atop search results. The method reportedly restores a more traditional search experience that prioritizes links to original web sources rather than AI-generated summaries.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-24
Cloudflare launched a 'Disallow AI Training' control that lets website owners stay visible in search results while blocking the same crawler from using their content to train AI models. Apple, Google and Microsoft have agreed to honor the new setting, which addresses the problem of mixed-use crawlers that previously forced sites to accept both search indexing and AI training together or neither.
blog.cloudflare.com
· 2026-09-16
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