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PLUS: Is AI Killing Wikipedia’s Human Traffic?
James Roesser
October 22, 2025
Welcome back AI enthusiasts!
In today’s Daily Report:
🔍The AI-Powered Browser Challenging Google Chrome
🪦Is AI Killing Wikipedia’s Human Traffic?
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
OPENAI
🔍The AI-Powered Browser Challenging Google Chrome
Image Source: X (i.e., Formerly Twitter)/@OpenAI/“Bring ChatGPT with you across the web!”/Screenshot
OpenAI introduced “ChatGPT Atlas,” an AI-powered browser for macOS that seamlessly incorporates ChatGPT directly into how you explore the internet.
Key Details:
“ChatGPT Atlas” can come with you anywhere across the web, accessing all your open tabs to help you make faster decisions with less tab switching.
It also features browser memory, which enables ChatGPT to retain and recall relevant context from any website you visit whenever you need it.
This means you can ask questions like: “Identify the apartments I viewed within the past 30 days and create a detailed breakdown of rental price trends so I can negotiate my rent better.”
Why It’s Important:
For decades, the way we’ve used browsers has followed the same predictable pattern: search, click, skim, and repeat. It’s familiar, but it’s also due for an upgrade.
We’re experiencing a digital shift from asking, “What can I search for?” to “What can my browser do for me?” This evolutionary change signals a move away from manual navigation toward more intelligent delegation.
🚨Watch “ChatGPT Atlas” in action here.
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WIKIPEDIA
🪦Is AI Killing Wikipedia’s Human Traffic?
Image Source: Canva’s AI Image Generators/Magic Media
The Wikipedia Foundation recently observed a steady decline in human pageviews on Wikipedia over the past few months.
Key Details:
Every month, Wikipedia receives billions of pageviews from around the world. Around May 2025, they began observing unusually high levels of what appeared to be human traffic, mostly originating from Brazil. Turns out it was from crawler bots, which are designed to gather information from websites to train frontier AI models.
After reclassifying the human traffic to exclude these crawler bots, they noticed an 8% decrease in human pageviews on Wikipedia from March 2025 to August 2025 when compared to the same months in 2024.
The Pew Research Center examined 900 U.S. adults who performed 68,879 search queries, finding that Google’s “AI Overviews” caused nearly a 50% reduction in website clicks.
Why It’s Important:
Google shows AI-generated summaries above Google Search results approximately 60% of the time for search queries starting with “who,” “what,” “when,” “where,” or “why.” More importantly, only 1% of people click on the websites cited in these AI-generated summaries.
In June 2025, Anthropic’s crawl-to-referral ratio was 73,000:1. For every 73,000 web pages scraped by Anthropic’s crawler bots, only one person visited the website where the information originated. If AI firms keep scraping websites without referring to them, creators will lose their incentive to publish.
PROMPT ENGINEERING TIPS
⚙️From Decision Paralysis To Confident Choices!
That stuck feeling you experience when you’re consumed by options? It’s called decision paralysis: a mental gridlock often triggered by the pressure to make the “perfect” choice. Instead of deciding, you delay. You weigh every possible outcome, overanalyze every detail, and second-guess every instinct.
Ironically, the fear of making the wrong choice often leads to making no choice at all. But here’s the truth: not deciding is a decision. Making a less-than-perfect choice is better than making no choice at all because every decision moves you closer to clarity.
This simple prompt turns ChatGPT into your personal clarity coach:
Context: I’ve been struggling to make a decision about {Insert Specific Situation},
Clarity: constantly doubting my ability to make the “right” choice.
Guidance: Can you develop a simple, actionable, and sustainable step-by-step plan to help me make more confident, aligned choices, such as setting deadlines for decisions or prioritizing action over perfection?
I've been struggling to make a decision about {Insert Specific Situation}, constantly doubting my ability to make the "right" choice. Can you develop a simple, actionable, and sustainable step-by-step plan to help me make more confident, aligned choices, such as setting deadlines for decisions or prioritizing action over perfection?🛠TRENDING TOOLS
💻Synexa deploys AI with a single line of code.
🗄️Notis is your personal AI-powered employee.
🧐Transor translates PDFs and websites in seconds.
🐙Gencraft transforms a few words into stunning art.
👔Seekario helps you find, apply, and land your dream job.
🧰 Browse our Always Up-To-Date AI Toolkit.
🥪BRIEF BITES
Napster unveiled “Napster View,” a $99.00 holographic display that projects AI assistants above your Mac to help you stay focused and think creatively.
DeepSeek rolled out “DeepSeek-OCR,” which compresses text 10x more efficiently through visual representations while retaining 97% of the information.
Anthropic introduced “Claude Code on the web,” an AI-powered coding companion that understands entire codebases and reads, writes, and edits code.
Texas A&M University published LLMs Can Get “Brain Rot”!, which found that when language models are continuously exposed to junk web text, they lose reasoning skills and memory abilities.
💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
Serval raised a $47M Series A to deploy AI Agents to IT.
Cercli closed a $12M Series A to help you hire, manage, and pay your workforce.
OpenEvidence landed a $200M Series C to be the ChatGPT for medical professionals.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
📒FINAL NOTE
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