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Online reviews now shape AI search rankings, not just consumer trust

AI-driven search tools such as Google's AI Overviews and conversational assistants like ChatGPT are increasingly pulling data from customer reviews to decide which businesses to recommend. This means the volume, recency and quality of a business's reviews are being read and weighted by algorithms, not just prospective customers. A thin or neglected review profile can make a business effectively invisible to these AI systems.

SpaceX plans $100 billion Starbase spaceport on Louisiana's Gulf Coast

SpaceX intends to build a new 125,000-acre spaceport called Starbase Louisiana at Pecan Island, featuring five launch complexes, propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping and an airport. Construction is slated to begin in 2027 with a first launch targeted for 2029, and the site could eventually support thousands of missions annually.

vLLM tool-parser bug let AI-generated text trigger code execution

Researchers documented that vLLM's XML-based tool parser for Qwen3 Coder (CVE-2025-9141) fed model-generated arguments directly into Python's eval() function, meaning a language model's own output tokens could execute arbitrary code on the machine running it. A Gemini-based review flagged the change as a critical risk before it was merged, but the lead vLLM maintainer force-merged it anyway.