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Three sites made 215,000 pages targeting AI, and Perplexity cited them

No.17 · Friday, September 4, 2026 · Today in AI

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1. 01Three sites made 215,000 pages targeting AI, and Perplexity cited themA study of 380 software categories found that six in ten citations pointed to obscure sites — and three of those sites were built purely to target AI
2. 02Anthropic Open-Sources Commerce Agent BlueprintAnthropic has published shopping and merchant agents, along with four example verticals — retail, travel, telecom, and entertainment — as full code on GitHub. But the part of the code that got the most attention wasn't revenue generation. It was the mechanism that keeps the model from ever touching money.
3. 03ATV Big Air Tour turns 3-day inventory work into 3 hours with ChatGPT WorkA two-person founding team handed everything from event-listing checks to inventory management and AI search visibility over to ChatGPT Work
4. 04AI-designed proteins split prediction from lab resultsOf 1,320 mini-protein binders Claude designed, 354 actually bound — hitting 14 of 15 targets. One target that stumped human competitors, who managed only a 3.7% hit rate, yielded 40% for Claude. But picking winners before synthesis is still the hard part.
5. 05Google opens cyber defense AI to governments and enterprises through Fairwind ProgramGemini 3.8 Flash Cyber paired with CodeMender gives roughly 650 partners automated vulnerability fixes
6. 06Inworld AI launches Realtime TTS-2, reigniting the race for the top speech synthesis spotInworld AI says it has reclaimed the top spot on Artificial Analysis's leaderboard, which Cartesia took just two weeks earlier
7. 07AI models talk faster without words, thanks to a Fields Medalist's bridgeWhen we connect two models, we've always had one write text for the other to read.
8. 08Pangram's AI Detection Scores Rattle Publishing, but Trust Questions MountAI scores from a 24-person startup got a major publisher to cancel a book deal, and now a research collaborator's ties to the company are drawing scrutiny too