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AI · The Trellner 50
The Trellner 50
The sites Perplexity cited most often when recommending software, from 7,534 citations across 380 software categories.
AI · Opinion
Outside researchers found 80,000 attack payloads OpenAI never published
The best account of how 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face came from outsiders reading link shorteners.
AI · Research
Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by people.
AI · Research
Wikipedia supplied 7.8% of ChatGPT's citations as human pageviews fell
A volunteer-maintained encyclopedia supplies a large share of what machines say about organisations while its human readership falls and its relationships with AI firms become commercial.
AI · Research
Anthropic's bots crawled 70,900 pages per referral they sent, Cloudflare found
AI systems retrieve pages at a scale thousands of times greater than the visitors they return, which separates the value of published material from the traffic it produces.
AI · Research
G2 survey: 51% of software buyers start research with AI over Google
Surveys of B2B software buyers show the opening move of a purchase has shifted from a search engine to an assistant, onto a surface a vendor cannot inspect.
AI · Research
Across 75,000 brands, web mentions tracked AI visibility more closely than backlinks
In large brand samples, being described in third-party text tracks AI visibility more closely than link accumulation does, though the published coefficients disagree across platforms and dates.
AI · Research
Top 25 domains took 23.8% of AI answer citations in one audit
Citations in machine answers are distributed far more unequally than the field of available sources, so a small set of intermediaries decides how a market is described.
AI · Research
Machines place a company in a market using four kinds of signal
The signals by which a machine decides what an organization is, and how that decision fixes its position in a market category.
AI · Research
An AI assistant picks the brands it cites in four stages
The four stages at which an assistant decides which brands appear in an answer, and what each stage rewards.