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Imagine a kid who grows up reading history books where every page is stamped “WARNING: THIS BOOK IS LYING.” You’d expect them to come away skeptical, or at least uncertain. New research on so-called “negation neglect” finds that LLMs in a roughly analogous situation don’t behave that way. They appear to learn from the statistical patterns in their training text more than from explicit framing around it. Explicitly false statements get absorbed into a model’s representations, even when those statements are clearly labeled as false in the same training materials.

LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false Fine-tuning tests show "bias... toward confidently representing the claims as true."

The perfect video about Ai! This wins the internet today!

If AI Had to Pass Job Interviews If AI was a person, it would never pass the job interview.SOURCES:Starbucks fires AI: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/starbucks-scraps-...

A great conference that I had the privilege to attend!

ARDA Spring Conference 2026 CRTA had the privilege of attending the ARDA 2026 Spring Conference in Las Vegas. This serves as one of the primary timeshare industry events each year.

I just had an argument about this the other day with a client. Turns out I was right!

Google to no longer support FAQ rich results FAQ rich results will no longer show in search and the Search Console features will go away.

I'm a big fan of Cloudflare!

How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability When a critical Linux kernel privilege escalation was publicly disclosed, Cloudflare's security and engineering teams detected, investigated, and mitigated the threat across our global fleet, confirming zero customer impact and no malicious exploitation.

Some recent WordPress attacks have come through plugins that were acquired by new owners and turned into malware... here is a great resource to stay on top of this type of thing

WP Beacon Checksums for the WordPress community. Every plugin uploaded to WordPress.org receives a corresponding checksums file like this: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin-checksums/woocommerce/8.6.0.json. These checksums are used by tools like WP-CLI to verify that nothing has been tampered with. Many....

Disappearing Google Reviews... So one of the things scammy SEO companies are doing these days is creating phony reviews for their clients, or just setting them up wrong. Both are bad ideas...

Whitespark 4 likes, 1 comment. "Disappearing Reviews, New Business Name Policy, AI Visibility How-to|E28 The Whitespark Local Update"

Here's an interesting new project to keep an eye on!

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates.

Search now behaves more like a conversation than a lookup. In AI Mode, users ask follow-up questions and refine what they’re trying to solve. AI Overviews reason through an answer first, then determine which ads support that answer.

In Google Ads, the auction isn’t triggered by a keyword anymore – it’s triggered by inferred intent

Google Ads no longer runs on keywords. It runs on intent. If you’re still building Google Ads around keywords, you’re behind. Here's what that means for eligibility, structure, and PPC strategy.

Okay, 2026 is kicking off with a very busy month! First new website of the year is up for the Canadian Resort & Travel Association - CRTA, along with a new social campaign "Voices of Vacation Ownership!

Check it out here

The Canadian Resort & Travel Association - CRTA Canadian Resort & Travel Association (CRTA) is the industry trade association representing the resort development and vacation ownership industry in Canada.