This is part of the full AI Virtual Inn of Court September 2025 Member Meeting presentation.
“The ‘content’ of any medium is always another medium. The content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and print is the content of the telegraph.” – Marshall McLuhan 1964
Each new medium both contains and can emulate the mediums it replaces. The internet contains and emulates film, radio, television, publishing, and retail.
The content of AI will include… the Internet.
- February 28, 2025
- New Alexa powered by Claude
- Perplexity planning AI browser (Comet)
- March 7, 2025
- Apple may be preparing Gemini integration in Apple Intelligence
- Perplexity Launches Enterprise File Integration
- March 21, 2025
- Payment processing provider Stripe has created a template to allow companies to share transaction documentation with AI agents. Never leave the chat!
- April 18, 2025
- It’s rumored that OpenAI is creating a social media platform
- A company called Firecrawl has released a web scraper that can navigate complex websites and fill out forms.
- April 25, 2025
- Google announced that its AI-enhanced search now reaches 1.5 billion users per month.
- A study showed that these AI overviews reduce click-through rates by 34%.
- Andrej Karpathy, one of the most generous, smartest, kindest, and broad-visioned voices in AI (and I don’t say that lightly), co-founder of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, has said that our primary audience as product developers, publishers, and e-commerce website developers is no longer human. Instead, our primary audience is going to be web crawlers and agents that are looking on behalf of people who have asked them questions. WHAT IS A LISTING THEN?
- OpenAI has expressed interest in purchasing the Google Chrome browser, if given the chance.
- The Washington Post has partnered with OpenAI to include news within ChatGPT chats.
- Adobe has now incorporated Google and OpenAI’s models into its Firefly product.
- May 02, 2025
- OpenAI rolled out enhanced ChatGPT shopping.
- Mastercard and Visa also separately introduced AI agent integration into their payment systems to automate AI purchasing.
- May 9, 2025
- Both OpenAI and Google have integrated shopping capabilities into their AI features. Big change is coming for retailers (and affiliate models) this year.
- Anthropic has integrated web searching into both its chat model and the API. This is yet another shift in the publishing landscape and the internet itself, as models search the Internet and retrieve information without leaving the chat.
- Apple plans to add artificial intelligence search options to its web browser, Safari.
- LinkedIn added AI powered job searching which supposedly allows users to search for jobs using plain language descriptions. Zillow did this over a year ago with plain language home searches.
- May 23, 2025
- If agents weren’t enough, interfaces are officially beginning to be disrupted. OpenAI acquired Apple designer Jony Ive’s company for $6.5 billion. The rumor is they are going to build a device that has no graphical user interface.
- Google has launched an Internet agent that can manage up to 10 web-based tasks at the same time, including things like booking flights or making restaurant reservations. Even with a web interface like a browser, if the system takes a search query and goes out throughout the entire Internet to accommodate requests, that implies it might as well be a non-graphical interface. You just ask Google what you want and Chrome goes and does it.
- Google’s Internet agent can save tasks to repeat on a regular basis. For example, if you want to check real estate listings, instead of opening the apps, Google will check them every day for you and even schedule viewings of properties.
- AI search tool Perplexity reports that people are booking hotels directly through its AI search platform more and more every day. Hotel advertising is Google’s second-largest category.
- May 30, 2025
- A startup called the Browser Company announced that they were building a web browser that was chat interface-based as opposed to page-based. The press release bluntly said that web browsers will die.
- The CEO of Perplexity predicts that AI agents will decimate Google search volume and shift traditional cost per click budgets to AI integration.
- Perplexity released a new feature called Labs, which is a powerful search mode that handles complex projects like building dashboards or mini applications. Labs supports interactive tool use beyond basic web searching. For example, creating financial reports from more than one source, aggregating findings, and creating charts and visualizations.
- Microsoft announced a commitment to “The Agentic Web,” where AI programs team up and collaborate to go out on the Internet on our behalf so we no longer have to browse. – – – THIS IS HAPPENING.
- June 06, 2025
- Meta plans to fully automate their advertising tools by 2026 using artificial intelligence. Completely cutting out the creative process and middle persons.
- Opera released a browser called Neon that uses AI agents to automatically complete tasks like filling out forms or booking trips while users browse the web.
- H Company introduced web automation agents that are able to read, click, and type on websites with 92% accuracy.
- Firecrawl launched a hosted service that connects web scraping abilities directly to the large frontier models. (Savvy people will create tools to compete with you)
- June 14, 2025
- Google started to roll out data visualization features in their AI search results that automatically create interactive graphs for stock and mutual fund queries. These visualizations are built on the fly using Gemini’s reasoning capabilities to build whatever charts or graphs “Google thinks” best fits the data question. This is bigger than it might initially seem as user interfaces will suddenly just appear in front of us rather than being built in advance.
- Perplexity has launched an AI browser called Comet that appears to be gaining loyalty among power users. It integrates with browser history and can read emails and attempts to think ahead of people’s intentions… you just confirm as you go.
- July 18, 2025
- OpenAI launched “Agent” which combines web browsing, deep research, coding, and file manipulation. I’ve been using it for two weeks (I’m behind on my newsletter, so this is being written post-launch). It’s wild to watch Agent open a small window inside the chat, where it opens websites and navigates my emails, logs into LinkedIn, and creates spreadsheets and Google docs.
- Google is adding AI features into search and Chrome. There’s now an option to have AI call a business on your behalf (we predicted via Simple.ai this spring). That was faster than I expected.
- August 2, 2025
- Google’s AI overviews reached 2 billion monthly users (up from 1.5 in April)
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