One of the most talked about new cars over the past year has been the two-door electric pickup truck from Slate Auto, a partially Bezos-backed startup that seemingly came out of nowhere. When the Slate was first revealed in April 2025, we lived in a world where the federal EV tax credit still existed, and Slate said the "blank Slate" truck would start at less than $27,500 before that incentive was factored in, so hypothetically the truck would be "under $20,000" with that applied.
As AI search reshapes how customers discover and evaluate brands, tools like Profound are gaining attention for helping marketers measure visibility within AI-generated answers. But, as budgets tighten, new AI visibility features emerge, and integration demands increase, many teams are actively seeking alternatives to Profound AI.
A major new tool for X-ray research has entered service at BESSY II. Developed through a collaboration between HZB, MPI-CEC (Mühlheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany), and NIST (Boulder CO, USA), the instrument is the first and only TES spectrometer operating at a synchrotron facility in Europe.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (FL) speaks on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 17, 2024.
(L/R) Congressional candidates Brad Lander and Claire Valdez, US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani raise their joined hands during the "Our Team, Our Year" Get Out The Vote (GOTV) rally at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, on June 18, 2026.
Talk to any real car enthusiast, and they'll probably agree that vans rule. That's true whether we're talking about minivans, cargo vans, kei vans, funky MPVs or anything in-between. Passenger vans are still rather popular in the U.S., but they've become mostly boring family vehicles with a "soccer parent" stigma. For years, us enthusiasts have been lamenting our country's lack of futuristic high-end vans, watching from afar as China and Europe have seen scores of cool new vans get introduced. But now, for the first time, we're getting a luxury van in the U.S., and it's coming from Mercedes-Benz.
Knowing how to rank in search engines and how to rank in AI search results are two different games now.
As of early 2026, BrightEdge found AI Overviews appear in roughly 48% of tracked Google searches, and prevalence climbs as high as 100% for healthcare and treatment queries. ChatGPT handles over a billion queries per week, while Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini are routing millions of searches every day without a single click.
In 2007, when this website was still in its infancy, I shared a recipe for a layered strawberry chiffon shortcake. I’d never made a chiffon cake before, but I brought it to a friend’s rooftop birthday BBQ, correctly assuming that no one would be unhappy with a towering, featherweight cake sandwiched with whipped cream and fresh strawberries, however inexpertly made.
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