Author: Awais

How content is structured in an article or blog post might not seem controversial. But, apparently, Google doesn’t want you to create bite-sized chunks of content simply to please LLMs. Called “chunking,” this technique helps get your content noticed by AI models and reflects how readers actually engage with online content. Chunking may make content more retrievable or citable in AI search, but ultimately, it improves the flow of content and makes concepts easier for people to understand. Let’s talk about how chunking works and when to use it. What is chunking? Chunking is the practice of organizing text into…

The creator of NanoClaw, an open source AI agent platform with over 18,000 GitHub stars, says Google is ranking a fake website above his project’s real site. In tests conducted on March 5, an impostor site ranked at the top of Google for the project’s own name. The real website, nanoclaw.dev, did not appear in the first several pages of results. What’s Happening Gavriel Cohen, a software engineer and former Wix developer, posted a thread on X describing the problem. Cohen launched NanoClaw in early February as a security-focused alternative to OpenClaw, the viral open source AI agent platform. The…

[Submitted on 29 Sep 2025 (v1), last revised 3 Mar 2026 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Uni-NTFM: A Unified Foundation Model for EEG Signal Representation Learning, by Zhisheng Chen and 9 other authors View PDF Abstract:Current foundation models for electroencephalography (EEG) rely on architectures adapted from computer vision or natural language processing, typically treating neural signals as pixel grids or token sequences. This approach overlooks that the neural activity is activated by diverse sparse coding across a complex geometric topological cortex. Inspired by biological neural mechanisms, we propose the Unified Neural Topological Foundation Model (Uni-NTFM),…

When you’re in the throes of a product launch, new ideas come flying in from every direction, and each one could use a visual—a product concept, a quick mockup for a new feature—to rally the team around. Generating those visuals in an AI tool like Gemini speeds things up, and because your prompt can bake in brand guidelines like color palette and style, every image can come out consistent. But writing that prompt from scratch every time and manually copying the results into the right Slack channel slows you back down.In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Zapier…

Fintech in AI search plays by much stricter rules. Because it’s a Your Money or Your Life category, products must clear higher verification thresholds before AI mentions you: Is your product legitimate? Are your fees and protections explicit? Do other trusted sources back up your claims? To find these answers, AI draws from your website and the wider web — including sources you don’t control. That risks misrepresentation of your brand. What matters, then, is whether those sources tell an accurate story. In this article, I’ll explain how to influence that narrative. Because the real goal is for your fintech…

Has OpenAI’s increasing independence from Microsoft and, by extension, Bing, become an overly dependent relationship with Google? Our study comparing shopping query fan-outs (QFOs) in ChatGPT from both Google and Bing carousels appears to have provided at least a partial answer to that question. Let’s take a look at how this study was conceived and what we found. In November 2025, a few researchers in the AI research space, including myself, detected a mysterious field in ChatGPT’s source code: id_to_token_map. But what that field revealed when decoded was even more intriguing. This field is what’s called base64 encoded, but when…

At Google Search Central Live in Zurich last December, Clara Soteras spoke about how brands and ecommerce sites can use Discover as a strategy. Discover is a dominant source of traffic for news publishers, and currently, is a potential channel that has resisted the encroachment of AI. So, I was interested to see how Discover might hold opportunities beyond the newsroom. However, in Zurich, John Mueller repeated his advice that Google Discover traffic is for free, and someday it can be zero. Much like the reality of Google traffic diminishing for many brands. So, I sat down with Clara on…

arXiv:2603.04277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous aerial robots operating in GPS-denied or communication-degraded environments frequently lose access to camera metadata and telemetry, leaving onboard perception systems unable to recover the absolute metric scale of the scene. As LLM/VLM-based planners are increasingly adopted as high-level agents for embodied systems, their ability to reason about physical dimensions becomes safety-critical — yet our experiments show that five state-of-the-art VLMs suffer from spatial scale hallucinations, with median area estimation errors exceeding 50%. We propose VANGUARD, a lightweight, deterministic Geometric Perception Skill designed as a callable tool that any LLM-based agent can invoke to recover…

Taking inspiration from the Northern Indian dish gobi tikka, this yogurt-based marinade tenderizes and gives deep, bold flavor to roasted cauliflower. Flavored with fresh garlic, ginger, and warm spices like garam masala and Kashmiri chile powder, the yogurt coats every nook and cranny of the vegetables, helping each floret develop beautiful caramelization.Cook the cauliflower at a moderately high temperature so that it adequately softens while developing color. A quick blast under the broiler adds extra char, while a finishing squeeze of lime brightens the heady spice.Tips for making tandoori-style cauliflowerWhat is “tandoori-style”?Tandoori dishes are traditionally cooked in a tandoor, a…

For a word that determines so much of how social media and the creator economy operate, engagement can be pretty hard to pin down. So, we looked at the data.This report documents how engagement works across social media in 2026. Not how we wish it worked or not how platforms market it — but what the data shows.To understand what’s actually happening across feeds right now, we dug into tens of millions of posts published through Buffer — looking at engagement baselines, reply behavior, posting frequency, and how different formats perform across platforms.The short version: If you’re spending more energy…