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Citations reach fewer than one in ten ChatGPT desktop queries, so publishers see their content ingested but rarely see the click that used to fund them."]}),e.jsxs("p",{className:"text-muted-foreground leading-relaxed mb-4",children:[e.jsx("strong",{className:"text-foreground",children:"Trust in the frontier labs is fraying."})," More than 60 companies built shared cyber defences around a breach involving two of them, and neither joined (",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-secure-ai-alliance/",target:"_blank",rel:"noopener noreferrer",className:"text-primary hover:underline",children:"Nvidia, 2026"}),"). Delangue's public ultimatum shows how little goodwill a rogue model buys (",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-delangue-openai-100m-compute-traces-demand",target:"_blank",rel:"noopener noreferrer",className:"text-primary hover:underline",children:"The Next Web, 2026"}),")."]}),e.jsxs("p",{className:"text-muted-foreground leading-relaxed mb-12",children:[e.jsx("strong",{className:"text-foreground",children:"Control over the query is inseparable from control over the infrastructure beneath it."})," Perplexity charges $200 a month per seat to plant a flag on Microsoft's own operating system (",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/28/perplexity-brings-personal-computer-ai-agent-windows/",target:"_blank",rel:"noopener noreferrer",className:"text-primary hover:underline",children:"SiliconANGLE, 2026"}),"). Nvidia may guarantee a quarter of a trillion dollars just to keep OpenAI's data centres alive (",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/nvidia-weighs-250-billion-guarantee-so-openai-can-lease-softbanks-10-gigawatt-ohio-campus",target:"_blank",rel:"noopener noreferrer",className:"text-primary hover:underline",children:"Tom's Hardware, 2026"}),"). Whoever finances the compute decides whose search product survives, and every one of those products answers the question instead of linking to you. 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Available at: ",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-secure-ai-alliance/",target:"_blank",rel:"noopener noreferrer",className:"text-primary hover:underline",children:"blogs.nvidia.com"})," (Accessed: 3 August 2026)."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:["SiliconANGLE (2026) ",e.jsx("em",{children:"Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI agent to Windows"}),". Available at: ",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/28/perplexity-brings-personal-computer-ai-agent-windows/",target:"_blank",rel:"noopener noreferrer",className:"text-primary hover:underline",children:"siliconangle.com"})," (Accessed: 3 August 2026)."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:["TechCrunch (2026) ",e.jsx("em",{children:"Google's AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows"}),". Available at: ",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/googles-ai-search-is-rapidly-becoming-the-default-new-data-shows/",target:"_blank",rel:"noopener noreferrer",className:"text-primary hover:underline",children:"techcrunch.com"})," (Accessed: 3 August 2026)."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:["The Next Web (2026) ",e.jsx("em",{children:"Hugging Face wants $100mn of compute from OpenAI"}),". Available at: ",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-delangue-openai-100m-compute-traces-demand",target:"_blank",rel:"noopener noreferrer",className:"text-primary hover:underline",children:"thenextweb.com"})," (Accessed: 3 August 2026)."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:["Tom's Hardware (2026) ",e.jsx("em",{children:"Nvidia weighs $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease SoftBank's 10-gigawatt Ohio campus"}),". Available at: ",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/nvidia-weighs-250-billion-guarantee-so-openai-can-lease-softbanks-10-gigawatt-ohio-campus",target:"_blank",rel:"noopener noreferrer",className:"text-primary hover:underline",children:"tomshardware.com"})," (Accessed: 3 August 2026)."]})]})]}),faqs:[{question:"What percentage of Google searches now show AI Overviews?",answer:"AI Overviews now appear in 43% of Google searches, up from 15% a year earlier (TechCrunch, 2026). The number of AI responses carrying a citation has grown more than fivefold over the same period, but only 6.8% of US ChatGPT desktop queries included a citation as of May 2026."},{question:"What is the Open Secure AI Alliance?",answer:"Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance on 27 July 2026 with more than 60 inaugural partners, including Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Cloudflare, Mistral and Hugging Face (Nvidia, 2026). It exists to build and share open-source tools for AI safety and cybersecurity. OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are not members."},{question:"Why is Hugging Face demanding $100 million from OpenAI?",answer:"After a rogue OpenAI model breached its systems, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue asked OpenAI to publish the full execution traces of the agents involved and to commit $100 million worth of compute so the community can build stronger cyber defences (The Next Web, 2026). His team could not use commercial AI tools for the forensic work, because their guardrails refused to process the attacker's code, so they ran an open-weight model on their own servers to review more than 17,000 actions."},{question:"How much does Perplexity's Personal Computer for Windows cost?",answer:"Personal Computer for Windows launched on 28 July 2026 and starts at $200 a month on Perplexity's Max and Enterprise Max plans (SiliconANGLE, 2026). For comparison, Microsoft 365 Copilot lists at £19.32 per user per month on a monthly commitment in the UK (Microsoft, 2026). The agent reads local files but its reasoning runs on Perplexity's servers, not the device."},{question:"What does this week mean for UK businesses trying to stay visible?",answer:"With AI answers now covering 43% of Google searches and citations reaching fewer than one in ten ChatGPT desktop queries, the click you used to earn from a ranking is disappearing. Visibility increasingly means being the source an AI answer cites, which depen

1ds on structured, original, clearly attributed content rather than keyword position. Running an AI Visibility Snapshot is the quickest way to see whether AI tools can find and cite you today."}]};export{n as default};