Research
What Does AI Say About The Bachelor?
Volume 04 of the AI Pop Culture Index. The control group. 24 years of TV, almost no AI memory. Clean brands disappear faster than controversial ones.
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Travel
New York City Expands Halal Travel Guide, Four Years After Arabic Launch
New York City Tourism + Conventions has updated its Halal Travel Guide, four years after becoming the first U.S. tourism organization to publish a dedicated Muslim-traveler resource — and to translate it into Arabic.
AI Communications
Where AI Communications Gets Taught: Syracuse Builds an AI Degree With Communications at Its Core
Syracuse University is launching a Bachelor's in Integrative Artificial Intelligence for Fall 2027 — with communications, media, and policy built into the degree. Inside the structural shift turning communications and AI into the same job.
Research
What Does AI Say About Vanderpump Rules?
Part of the Everything-PR AI Pop Culture Index. Bravo fired the entire Vanderpump Rules cast and hired ten unknowns. The AI engines never got the memo — the same retrieval lag facing Twitter, Meta, HBO Max, and Disney.
AI Communications
Google Posts First Negative Free Cash Flow in 22 Years to Win GEO and AI
Alphabet posted negative free cash flow of $5.9 billion in Q2 2026 — its first negative free cash flow quarter since the 2004 IPO — while raising capex guidance to $205 billion. The coverage called it a spending story, got the financing number wrong, and missed what the quarter actually discloses about where discovery moved.
Investor Relations
Investor Relations Is Becoming AI Relations
Two-thirds of retail microcap investors researched inside an AI engine before opening the 10-K. Kyle Porter, Managing Director of Virgo PR, on why investor relations is becoming AI relations — and the four operational shifts every IR team should make now.
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The 2026 South Florida Luxury Real Estate AI Visibility Index™
A new study by HL Real Estate Group, of Haute Living, and 5W AI Communications measures how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews describe the twenty most in-demand new luxury developments in South Florida. Cipriani, Bentley, and Aston Martin lead.
Celebrity
I've Sold Celebrity Endorsements for Twenty Years. AI Is Rewriting the Business Underneath Me.
The talent agency founder's take on the Beauty AI Endorsement Index. Founders eat endorsers alive. The season-face contract is aging out. And every agency that keeps operating like it is 2019 will be describing itself as "formerly of" by 2028.
Research
Mandarin Oriental Ranks #4 in Luxury Hospitality Authority Index 2026
Mandarin Oriental ranks #4 in The Luxury Hospitality Authority Index 2026 with a Composite score of 83, anchored by the Mandarin Oriental Bangkok.
AI Visibility
Who Controls AI Answers in Insurance
An analysis of who controls AI answers in the insurance sector, identifying the key sources, publishers, platforms, and regulators influencing AI retrieval and citation patterns. It highlights the dominance of consumer-finance publishers, the role of government sites, and the limited impact of carrier-owned content.