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Reported notes on AI search, business identity, and verification. When we reference another publisher, we name them and link the original.
threatsday ceo phishing kits 5k dropbox
5 September 2026 — Thehackernews reports on “threatsday ceo phishing kits 5k dropbox.” A mention in an answer engine is not the same as a verified business ide
eu deforestation law force compliance even non eu coffee supply chains study 2026 09 02
4 September 2026 — Reuters reports on “eu deforestation law force compliance even non eu coffee supply chains study 2026 09 02.” A mention in an answer engine
Google AI Mode ads are a feed, not a verified name
3 September 2026 — Search Engine Journal describes ads inside Google AI Mode that are built from a Merchant Center feed. Paid placement is not a public identit
GBG Reach checks the address an AI agent is holding
3 September 2026 — Security Brief reports GBG launched Reach, a product that scores address data for AI agents. That is operational data for a bot. It is not a
Companies House is chasing unverified directors
3 September 2026 — ICAEW says Companies House is emailing unverified directors and persons of significant control. That government ID check is not a public fil
Dun & Bradstreet wires its commercial graph into Perplexity
3 September 2026 — HPCwire reports Dun & Bradstreet is feeding its commercial graph into Perplexity. A paid enterprise graph is not a public file a small firm
Forbes column: only a thin set of brands show up everywhere
2 September 2026 — A Quora column on Forbes tracked 1,200-plus brands across ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews. Only 36 held a top-100 mention on every
Trust in AI answers still starts with a resolvable company
1 September 2026 — MarTech’s trust column is being read as a visibility brief. The prior question is whether the model can tell two firms apart.
Pew: about one in ten pages now show signs of AI authorship
31 August 2026 — Search Engine Journal covers Pew research finding signs of AI authorship on a share of the live web, including pages dated after ChatGPT.
Forbes: AI is making business impersonation cheaper
28 August 2026 — Joe McKendrick in Forbes describes AI-assisted scams against businesses. Cheap fakes raise the value of a dated public identity.
Google and Yelp still feed local AI citations, BrightLocal finds
28 August 2026 — BrightLocal finds Google Business Profile and Yelp still supply a large share of the pages local AI answers lean on.