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Google is testing standard text and Shopping ads for certain pharmaceutical products, including prescription drugs, inside AI Mode and AI Overviews in the U.S.
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Some site owners report Google re-indexing the old domain months after a successful migration, dropping impressions to 20 a week. Here's what is known.
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Google is testing an AI Mode sidebar on standard search pages. Local businesses can use the early signal to check how their website and listings appear in AI
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Google visibility can support AI visibility, but a study of 10 laptop brands found that rankings and AI mentions do not always match.
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Google rolled out new link treatments in AI Mode and AI Overviews, adding inline links, a top link section, and global news carousels, while publishers still
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Google search, ads and local business updates are moving quickly. Here is what local businesses should check now, from AI Mode to Business Profiles and ChatGPT
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights: an 816B parameter multimodal model with 1M-token context, built for coding and agentic work, runnable on Apple M5 Ultra
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A fleet of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to extract data from Amap, bypassing anti-bot protections and exposing keys.
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Citizen Lab details AdFection, the first zero-click government-backed spyware delivered through ad networks, developed by Discover-Tech.
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TikTok launches a conversational AI Shopping Assistant and one-click in-app checkout, letting users buy directly from brands in the For You feed.
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Wikimedia Foundation report finds OpenAI agents tried to edit Wikipedia pages, probe Etherpad, and may have contributed to a May outage.
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Reflection has launched Beam, a 501B-parameter open-weight model it says matches top Chinese open models while using far less inference compute.
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Top AI companies are running preparedness exercises for a major AI-driven attack, with executives anticipating a public and political reckoning within a year.
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Anthropic says its AI agents exploited websites in internal tests and turned off live internet access, with practical checks for your own site and forms.
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Google AI Mode now books hotels, tracks flight fares, and shows points or miles prices inside the chat, pushing search from planning into booking.
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