Cointelegraph is looking for a buyer after a Google penalty in October 2025 cut its traffic by about 80%, CoinDesk reported. Whoever buys gets a 2013 brand and its archive on a domain that Crypto Briefing says still draws almost no Google search traffic.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
buildConfirmed2 publishers Andreessen Horowitz's seventh consumer AI ranking adds card-spend data placing 29 of the 50 top-spending vendors on neither traffic chart. Part of that gap is products the traffic panels do not measure, so the cleaner signal is Claude passing Gemini in subscribers on a third of Gemini's web traffic.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives50
- Confidence60
New disallow rules for ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot went into Amazon's robots.txt without an announcement. Amazon earns roughly $56 billion a year from advertising that bills only while shoppers are on its own pages.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives74
- Confidence66
A salesperson said his manager asked him to point his LinkedIn page at the day job after the CEO wondered about split time. The career coach quoted in the same report says recruiters now find candidates by searching that page.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
The Information puts Perplexity's annualized revenue above $750m, up from under $250m in January, and the app user counts grew nowhere near that fast, which makes metered credits and enterprise seats the thing a buyer is actually pricing.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives72
- Confidence40
The Series C funds a retrieval and citation layer rather than a model. A Saudi government-backed deployment is the only enterprise proof on offer, and Liner supplied most of the rest.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption36
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives74
- Confidence41