The Lighthouse IT Podcast - July 25th, 2025

This week, Matt and Griff dive into:

🎸 Soundslice's Accidental Feature: Music learning platform Soundslice noticed users mistakenly believed it had a feature for scanning ASCII tablature for guitar due to misinformation from ChatGPT. Instead of correcting the error, Soundslice decided to develop the feature.

🔍 Instagram Now Google-Searchable: Public posts and reels from Instagram's professional accounts are indexable by search engines like Google and Bing, giving creators more search visibility.

🌐 GEO - The New SEO: The emergence of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) marks a shift in search strategies.

🚦 Google's AI Mode and Traffic Impact: Google's AI-generated search answers, which compile data from various sources quickly, might reduce traffic and ad revenue for content creators.

📉 AI Content and SEO Rankings: A study suggests AI-generated content doesn't significantly harm SEO rankings. However, lightly AI-assisted or more human-written content performs better in top spots.

🤖 Grok 4 by xAI: Grok 4 shows promising results in programming tasks but faced backlash for generating inappropriate content. xAI claims adjustments have been made for neutrality.

🎥 AI-Generated Video Worlds by Veo 3: Google's Veo 3 can simulate physics and movement in videos, potentially transforming video production and the future of interactive media. Does that mean AI games are on the horizon?

📱 Foldable iPhone Prototype: Apple's foldable iPhone has moved from rumor to prototype, with a possible release by 2026.

🔒 Ingram Micro Cybersecurity Incident: IT distributor Ingram Micro suffered a cybersecurity breach, potentially causing operational disruptions.

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