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Articles from TheAEOWire tagged "ChatGPT".
A new preprint finds limited overlap between sources shown by chatbot interfaces and their APIs. AEO reports need to state precisely what they observe.
Read more: A September AI shopping audit exposes the gap between API tracking and consumer answersThe rollout adds seven markets as OpenAI's ad business reaches a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate less than 200 days after its US launch.
Read more: OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, passing 60 countriesWhat published research says about how AI answer engines choose sources, where AI referral traffic is heading, how the engines differ, and what still cannot be measured.
Read more: The State of AI Visibility in 2026Health leads on AI answer coverage, marketplaces and IT on referral traffic. But published studies disagree sharply on the size of those leads, and the reasons are methodological.
Read more: Which industries get cited most in AI answers? What the public data showsRetrieval, query fan-out, freshness and authority: what the platforms document, what independent studies have measured, and what is still hypothesis.
Read more: How AI answer engines choose which sources to cite: what the evidence saysReddit's dominance of AI citations follows two paid data-licensing deals, one with Google worth $60 million a year and one with OpenAI, that feed its content directly into the models people ask questions.
Read more: Why Reddit shows up so often in AI answersA dozen published studies compare how AI engines cite the web. They agree the engines diverge and disagree on almost everything else. The methods explain most of the gap.
Read more: ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity cite the web differently: a review of the published comparisons
