Matt Gibbs

Today we released the May 2026 core update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: status.search.google.com/incidents/wdAX…

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What are the chances that GTA 6 might get delayed again?

GTA Forums admin Spider-Vice now says a senior European distribution contact confirmed Best Buy got it wrong and no GTA 6 pre-orders are scheduled. Take-Two and Rockstar still haven't said a word despite the stock moving considerably on the leak.

@GTABOOM_ New York City is kind of the opposite of Miami tho?

There's an interesting Reddit leak going around claiming Trailer 3's music is "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" by The Rolling Stones. The opening lyrics literally go "the police in New York City chased a boy right through the park." The poster (who claims they're not even a GTA fan) has solid karma and music industry ties so it doesn't feel like a clout chase. Still unverified obviously, but the song choice would absolutely fit GTA 6's tone if true.

@glenngabe Man, going through school or college with AI must be a 100% different experience now

"Gemini can distill your hard work into study guides or flashcards..." -> You can digitize your paper notes with Gemini and create study guides blog.google/innovation-and…

@glenngabe Can't wait for this.

Direct control of Codex from mobile? -> OpenAI set to add remote Codex control to ChatGPT mobile app "A more grounded clue surfaced when users briefly spotted a new screen inside the ChatGPT mobile app showing an option to connect with Codex, with copy explaining that users would soon be able to control Codex directly from ChatGPT. The flow appears to mirror what Anthropic offers through Claude Code Dispatch, where developers can monitor and steer agentic coding sessions running on a desktop machine straight from their phone." testingcatalog.com/openai-set-to-…

@lilyraynyc @joehall With all the vibe coding and people moving from Wordpress to their own stack probably a bigger problem than most realise

That’s quite the shout @joehall 👏🏽 Link to Joe’s post here: ashla.ai/p/burger-king-…

@lilyraynyc Anything genuinely interesting tho?

All of my inboxes: we vibe coded something! Now please come use it and share it/leave a review kthxbye

@glenngabe They used to tell us the same "black box" shit before AI

From yesterday, Google's Director of Software Engineering in Search about the importance of being able to debug systems: "The reason it's not so easy to apply AI everywhere (in Search) is because the models function like a black box. You don't always understand what's happening underneath. It's a complex set of neural networks. The linear models are the easiest ones to understand and debug..."

GTA 6 is projected to do $7.6B in its first 60 days. Avatar 2 made $2.3B across its entire theatrical run. Endgame did $2.8B. The Eras Tour grossed $2.2B over 18 months. One game is set to outdo three of the biggest entertainment events of the decade combined.

@GTABOOM_ Wild how they just let this bad press run rife for so many days

The PlayStation DRM panic is resolved. Sony confirmed: one online check after purchase, then your game works offline forever. Not a recurring 30-day requirement. The temporary timer was about closing a refund-exploit piracy loophole. GTA 6 physical discs are unaffected. Source: Sony's statement to Game File

@lilyraynyc 25 mins? Try 25 seconds

Google recently reminded everyone that "non-commodity content" is what wins in search, meaning content with a unique perspective, real E-E-A-T, and genuine lived experience. (BTW, this is an extension of what Google has been promoting in its quality guidelines for years.) I made a half-joke the next day that many marketers' first thought would be: "How can I automate non-commodity content with AI?" Real talk: the entire point of non-commodity content is that it requires what AI alone can't deliver: real human experience, real expertise, real mistakes, real product testing, real opinions, real emotions, etc. These are the kinds of insights that only come from actually living through something, and the valuable "human" stuff that other humans actually want to read. Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines made a change a couple of years back to emphasize the amount of "effort" that goes into building a page. While content creation and scaling have become dramatically easier with AI, I don't see Google's fundamental approach changing much. If anything, this leveling of the technological playing field raises the bar for what truly helpful, original content looks like. If a piece of content can be built with a few button clicks and a 25-minute Claude session, there isn't a lot of effort or originality behind it, even with the best possible workflows and a polished-looking deliverable. Take product review sites as an example - as this is a category where Google has become extremely strict when it comes to evaluating content quality. The better-performing product review sites actually buy the products, test them for weeks or months, take their own photos, film side-by-side comparison videos, and document genuine pros and cons from hands-on use. A single piece of content like that can take *days or even weeks* to produce. That's real expertise, real experience, and real effort, and it's exactly the stuff that AI can't replicate. What will stand the test of time, and what I believe search engines and AI assistants will continue to promote, is the hard work being done by sites with real humans providing their opinions, their experiences, their humor and authenticity, and years of detailed expertise. The kind of evaluations only a human can do. If there's a middle ground where AI assists the process and creates efficiencies, but the content is still truly evaluated and generated by genuine human expertise, then *that's* the happy medium worth chasing. But my concern is that - in the spirit of AI - many companies will try to automate something that fundamentally shouldn't be automated. They'll build "non-commodity content" workflows and miss the entire point of why users prefer it. The sites that succeed long term are the ones with real human evaluation happening throughout the process. That part can't be automated. By design, it takes time and effort. That's what makes it good content in the first place.

Claude: code and deploy the next Google. Reply when done. Thanks

@GTABOOM_ TBH probably my least favorite of the series, but happy bday nonetheless!

GTA IV is 18 years old today🎉 Still haven't played another game where ragdoll physics make crashing a car off a bridge feel like its own form of entertainment, thanks to the Euphoria engine. Watching Niko fly through a windshield or grab onto a railing as he falls hits different even now. Nothing has come close since.

@GTABOOM_ $80 is my guess

Polymarket has GTA 6 exceeding $100 at just 11% chance right now. After Zelnick's comments at iicon yesterday, that number is unlikely to climb. He said Take-Two's job is to "charge way way way less of the value delivery" and emphasized that game prices have stayed stable in the $60-$70 range despite inflation. That's now twice in two months he's pointed to the $70-$80 range publicly. The $100 fear is officially dead. The base price is almost certainly landing under $80.

@glenngabe Need this and dont want to mess with OpenClaw

Always-on Agents that can run a small AI-run organization -> OpenAI develops platform for always-on Agents on ChatGPT "OpenAI is testing a ChatGPT Agents feature codenamed Hermes, enabling users to create persistent agents with custom skills, tasks, and workflows." "From there, users would be able to spin up their own agents directly within ChatGPT and run them continuously, with the product explicitly framing them as teammates that operate 24/7 rather than one-off task runners." testingcatalog.com/openai-develop… via @testingcatalog

@glenngabe Codex is quickly catching up to Claude Code. Google lacking in this particular sector like they were at the start too

Antigravity to combat Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. And no, that's not the next Marvel movie :) -> Google's Chief AI Architect Koray Kavukcuoglu is working to unite its internal AI coding tools under the Antigravity platform, to counter Claude Code and Codex bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@glenngabe One of the biggest no-brainers in the history of no-brainers

The revamped Siri is coming. This should be interesting :) -> The glowing “26” in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing a revamped Siri, memory shortages may push Mac Studio and touch MacBook Pro launches by a few months "In terms of functionality, Siri is expected to move closer to modern AI chatbots. The assistant may support multi-step queries in a single command and enable ongoing conversations instead of one-time responses. It is also likely to include deeper personal context awareness and the ability to understand on-screen content for more relevant responses. "Apple may integrate technology similar to Google’s Gemini to improve Siri’s responses. In addition, the company is said to be testing a separate Siri app that could store and display past interactions." moneycontrol.com/technology/wwd…