ChatGPT search now targets specific sources at scale
AI search evolution changes how authors conduct research today.
Original source — simonwillison.nethttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/20/chatgpt-search-now-uses-the-siteoperator-at-scale/
This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Sat, Aug 22 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 59/100 (Tailwinds building).
Coral Wire selects stories by a Claude-graded relevance score and writes each headline and one-line summary with an Anthropic Claude model from the linked source. Story gathering is not AI: it is a fixed set of feeds and dockets. The linked original is always the authority.
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