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CucurbitAgent: An AI agent for exploring cucurbit multi-omics resources

Functional genomics in crops increasingly depends on integrating information from an extensive literature and heterogeneous multi-omics datasets. Large language models (LLMs) offer a powerful approach to synthesizing these resources and revealing hidden connections across datasets; however, they frequently hallucinate, producing plausible but unsupported claims, when responding to gene-specific…

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Thanks to AI? Links to my site started arriving from an unexpected route

I opened the Links report in Search Console for a site I run. It showed 799 external links in total. Most of them pointed to the home page, and they were old ones from Hatena and Yahoo! Japan.

  • 68 blog posts acquired external links totaling 125, primarily from note and personal blogs
  • July 2026 saw surge in citations, linked to AI-generated research output
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