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ChatGPT Referrals Surge, But News Sites Still Losing Search Traffic
Alicia Shapiro
July 03, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 16 minutes
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Behind the scenes this morning, I’ve been training ChatGPT and updating my custom GPT with new instructions to help improve AI discoverability—and (of course!) it took a bit longer than expected to get everything just right. Because of this, I was only able to get two news articles written today, but starting next week, we’ll be back to our regular schedule now that ChatGPT is all set up.
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Today’s Headlines:
ChatGPT Referrals Surge, But News Sites Still Losing Search Traffic - A new report reveals ChatGPT referrals to publishers are surging—but it’s not enough to offset the collapse in search traffic. Discover which outlets are gaining, who's falling behind, and why "zero-click news" may be the biggest threat journalism isn’t ready for. If you're in media or content strategy, it's a trend worth watching.
OpenAI to Rent 4.5 GW of Oracle Data Power for Stargate AI Buildout - OpenAI has signed a landmark deal to lease up to 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity from Oracle—one of the largest infrastructure agreements in AI history. Backed by the $500 billion Stargate initiative, the partnership signals a major bet on the future of generative AI—and a new chapter in the race to power it.
10 Questions to Kickstart AI Initiatives Conversation starters for everyone from IT pros to CEOs - Want to spark more productive AI conversations across your organization? This free guide from Dell and NVIDIA outlines 10 essential questions to help technical and nontechnical teams get aligned—and “right-size” your AI strategy based on real business needs.
Inference-Time Scaling and Collective Intelligence for Frontier AI - Can LLMs solve harder problems by mimicking collective intelligence? Sakana AI’s new AB‑MCTS algorithm does just that—guiding models to “collaborate” across diverse reasoning paths and refine answers in real time. It’s outperforming standard approaches on complex tasks like code generation and engineering design.
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