Google researchers found that frontier LLMs such as Gemini-3-Pro and GPT-5 encode 95–98% of tested facts but fail to directly recall 26–34% of them, with recall failures accounting for more than 70% o…
Starting September 15, 2026, Cloudflare will block Googlebot and Bingbot on sites set to block AI training, potentially affecting search indexing. Resoneo found that ChatGPT's own index serves sites w…
Anthropic revealed that its new text watermark is a version of Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text, which works by altering the randomness of word selection to embed an undetectable pattern that can be che…
Google has added Gemini 3.7 Flash as a selectable model in AI Mode in Search, one day after its release for coding and agent tasks, with the rollout available globally to Google AI Pro and Ultra subsc…
OpenAI's ChatGPT-User bot accessed disallowed pages on nearly half of European sites that explicitly blocked it, and TollBit's State of the Bots report for the first half of 2026 found that about 15% …
Anthropic announced plans to watermark text generated by its Claude models in compliance with Article 50 of the EU AI Act, drawing immediate criticism from writers and developers. The company's help p…
Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert told analysts on the company's second-quarter earnings call that non-human traffic could reach 1,000 times human traffic within five years, adding that 'humans will be a …
A new analysis of ChatGPT's network traffic reveals that the AI writes its own search queries containing brand names before any web search occurs, and being named in that initial query is worth about …
A survey of 163 AI search visibility practitioners found that while they rate the value of AI visibility data at 4.20 out of 5, they rate the worthiness of investing in dedicated platforms at just 3.1…
Anthropic's newly announced text watermarking for Claude aligns closely with a university-developed method called MCmark, according to a technical analysis of Anthropic's transparency page updated Jul…
Reddit Inc. reported Q2 revenue of $804.905 million, up 61% year-over-year, with daily active uniques reaching 130.3 million, advertising revenue up 64%, and net income of $252.848 million, yet its sh…
A recent study by researchers at the Indian School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University suggests Google AI Overviews could reduce clicks to webpages by as much as 38%, but there is currently no …
Freshpet's digital team and Intero Digital will host a webinar on August 20 to reveal the 3-part guide that earned Freshpet consistent citations in AI Overviews, despite not always ranking #1. The ses…
Google announced that its Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, with 63% now using voice interaction, according to a blog post on August 11. The company also reported that Gemini Live sees…
OpenAI reported in early 2026 that more than 40 million people ask it health questions daily, and BrightEdge found AI Overviews appear in roughly 89% of healthcare queries, signaling a shift in how us…
A new SE Ranking report found ChatGPT showed ads on 28.69% of commercial prompts in its healthcare category, more than 10 times the 2.64% recorded in Google's AI Mode. OpenAI's ad placement rules, las…
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on August 4, 2026, during Agents Week, enabling AI agents to hold stablecoins and pay for access to web resources, with handle reservation op…
Resoneo, a French SEO consultancy, analyzed 1,249 ChatGPT answers captured in July and found that OpenAI's in-house search index, codenamed 'labrador,' served hundreds of small websites without an Ope…
Search Engine Journal contributor Andrea Volpini introduces 'Decision Distance,' a metric measuring the gap between user motivations and brand messaging, arguing that traditional SEO metrics like clic…
AgencyAnalytics' 2026 Marketing Agency Benchmarks Report, based on 494 agency professionals, found that 42% of agencies are fielding client questions about organic traffic drops, with 64% naming Googl…