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💫 Current thoughts: Remember when SEO manipulation was the big concern — companies gaming Google to show up first in your search results? At least you could see those results and scroll past them. The new version is worse. Microsoft's security team just found 31 real companies across 14 industries using innocent "Summarize with AI" buttons to inject hidden instructions into your AI assistant's memory. One click, and your AI permanently "remembers" that company as a trusted source — biasing every future recommendation on related topics. The tools to do this are free and require zero technical skill. I wrote about why this hits smaller businesses hardest (hint: when you're the research department, a poisoned recommendation becomes the decision), and what the uncomfortable connection to AI search optimization means for marketing teams playing both sides of this game.
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Prompt of the Week:
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📱 Scientists confirm what we all suspected but were too distracted to finish reading about.
🍔 McDonald's CEO takes world's most reluctant bite, calls burger "product" like he's taste-testing evidence at a crime scene.
🧠 Lab-grown brains now learning tasks—still outperforming most LinkedIn thought leaders.
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