AI’s impact on search engines.) Instead of focusing solely on backlinks from high-traffic sites, businesses are encouraged to cultivate brand recognition and engagement. This can be accomplished through collaborations, partnerships, and active participation in relevant online conversations. As the algorithms evolve, so too must our strategies for building authority and credibility online. Utilizing social media…
AI may affect jobs, education, business productivity, public services, misinformation, privacy, inclusion, governance, and national development THE Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) will host the launch and presentation of Findings of the SALISES Public Artificial Intelligence (AI) Readiness Study (Jamaica): Opportunities, Gaps, and Priorities on Tuesday. The launch will bring…
There is a pattern playing out across Nigerian boardrooms with remarkable consistency. A business signs up for an AI tool like Microsoft Copilot, a chatbot, or a predictive analytics solution. A pilot is run. A few weeks pass. And then, almost nothing changes. Not because the technology failed. Not because the vendor oversold the product….
For decades, the insurance industry moved at its own deliberate pace – a world of actuarial tables, paper applications, and adjusters dispatched to inspect fender-benders in suburban driveways. The …
The world is experimenting with a transition from generative AI to agentic AI—one that could fundamentally reshape artificial intelligence. This shift marks an evolution from reactive, “armchair” systems that primarily generate content in response to human prompts to proactive, autonomous “co-worker” agents capable of multi-step reasoning, tool integration, persistent memory, planning, and independent goal execution with…
Microsoft continues to transform its Bing search engine as part of a broader strategy to integrate artificial intelligence into everyday online search. Over the past year, the company has introduced a series of major updates that significantly change how users interact with information on the internet. The changes reflect Microsoft’s ambition to move beyond the…
Core Internet infrastructure will require greater redundancy and more sophisticated congestion management technologies to handle AI-driven traffic surges.
This week, we covered the first core update of 2026, the February 2026 Discover core update. Meanwhile, there is an ongoing super-heated and volatile Google search rankings. Google has nothing to share about the recent unconfirmed ranking updates. Google said its search algorithms, spam detection, spam policies did not fundamentally change with AI Search. Google…
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NEWSLETTER INSIGHTS 21 January, 2026 | by Patrick Overall Interview with Jason Roos, CEO of Cirrus Retailers spent 2024 and 2025 buying AI tools. According to Jason Roos, CEO of contact centre platform Cirrus, they’ll spend 2026 working out why most of them didn’t work as expected. “The industry thought being ready meant switching the…
