Google announced agentic video understanding technology for its Gemini models, which will power the Ask YouTube feature on the video watch page in the coming months. The system dynamically selects vid…
A growing number of PPC practitioners are managing Google Ads through AI agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which allows AI assistants to read live data and take actions without logging in…
Google DeepMind Senior Vice President and Chief AI Architect Koray Kavukcuoglu said in an interview that Gemini is evolving from a chatbot into an AI agent, with coding and software engineering as the…
An audit of 50 major websites by Search Engine Journal found that while most have improved AI retrievability, nearly two-thirds leave AI bot access to content unmanaged, and almost none enable AI to f…
Google has revised its documentation for the European Search Dataset Licensing Program, detailing eligibility, data samples, audit requirements, and key dates for competitors to license search data in…
WordPress announced the WordPress Core Security Initiative, a proactive security effort run by the WordPress core security team and supported by contributors and sponsors, to address the rising number…
Schema markup helps search engines and AI systems like ChatGPT verify a business's claims and decide whether to feature it, but it does not guarantee citations, according to an SEO expert's session. T…
PureLinq CEO Kevin Rowe reported that a client campaign earned more than 1,000 citations, including coverage in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Axios, Fox Business, and Reuters, after a two-year reb…
Rank Math has temporarily paused its AI-powered Support Agent after users complained it did not clearly ask for permission before generating credentials that granted access to their WordPress websites…
Google has rolled out its generative AI performance reports in Search Console to all websites worldwide as of August 31, 2026, following a phased rollout that began in June. The reports show impressio…
The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a very large online search engine under the Digital Services Act, making it the first AI chatbot to receive the designation. OpenAI reported approximately…
A growth consultancy advises marketing teams to restructure for the AI-search era, recommending three role changes and a budget shift to secure citations in AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Per…
Google's John Mueller said in a Reddit discussion that on his test sites, the only crawlers claiming to accept markdown files are SEO tools, casting doubt on the value of serving markdown to AI bots. …
The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) project released its fourth specification update on August 25, 2026, introducing grocery shopping features and breaking schema changes that require updates for ad…
Profound, a company that tracks brand visibility in AI answers, found that Anthropic's Claude and Claude Code produce distinct responses to the same prompts, with Claude using web search in 93% of res…
Anthropic has begun signing out users and removing payment methods after detecting that infostealer malware, including Vidar, Lumma (LummaC2), StealC, RedLine, Acreed, and Atomic Stealer (AMOS), has b…
A federal judge questioned Google's AI Overviews content arrangement during a hearing in Penske Media's antitrust case, with Judge Amit Mehta describing the situation as 'really unfair' and noting pub…
WebMCP, a protocol enabling AI agents to interact with websites through structured tools, gained momentum in August as Shopify deployed WebMCP tools on every Liquid storefront, Cloudflare introduced a…
More than 100 organizations, including OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Hugging Face, have signed an open letter warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks wil…
Google has begun rolling out hotel booking through AI Mode in Search for U.S. users in English, allowing eligible reservations via a 'Continue on Google' flow with Google Pay, with initial partners in…