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Andrej Karpathy suggests asking LLMs to explain topics in an aerospace writing standard, or to answer with diagrams, HTML pages, or custom explainer videos.
Google’s people-first content guidance now warns site owners against fabricated author profiles, a form of deception its rater guidelines already described.
Google’s guidance on AI-generated content now says to fact-check it by hand before publishing, and the review extends to titles, alt text, and other metadata.
YouTube is updating recommendations to favor original Shorts and reduce reach for channels that mainly re-upload others’ clips without significant changes.
Gemini’s new UTM parameters give site owners clearer attribution for traffic coming from Google’s AI platform.
Google antitrust ruling shows how publishers can allege real harm yet still fail in a federal court.
Cloudflare’s Monetization Gateway charges AI agents per request in a closed beta, and Pay Per Use pays publishers for the AI uses that buyers report.
A new report says Google’s AI contribution pilot pays publishers widely different amounts, and some participants still can’t tell how payouts are calculated.
LiveRamp expands its OpenAI partnership, bringing RampID first-party audiences to ChatGPT Ads as advertisers gain more targeting and bidding options.
OpenAI’s Dots can review connected apps and run scheduled checks between conversations, with read-only limits on proactive research.
Google Analytics now supports app conversions in its performance and attribution reports.
Shopify has extended its WebMCP tools into checkout, letting browser agents update a shopper’s checkout and place the order after the buyer confirms it.
Q2 data shows Google desktop CTR down and mobile up at top positions, in a comparison spanning the end of a Search Console logging error.
EmDash 1.0 trades WordPress’s freedom of choice for heavy reliance on Cloudflare’s infrastructure.
A report using Similarweb panel data breaks down ChatGPT ad click-through rates by market and tracks how often the top ChatGPT advertisers changed.
Google is rolling out AI Mode’s information monitoring globally, with ongoing updates and suggested monitoring tasks in Search.
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 prompting guide asks developers to retest effort settings and reconsider chat prompt lines telling Claude to think carefully.
A court brief quotes an OpenAI engineer saying users “won’t click” links and cites Microsoft data on lower CTRs in Bing Chat than in search.
UCP has published a draft hotel booking specification, Google says it will adopt the open standard for AI Mode hotel booking over the coming months.
WP Engine is gratified by the judge’s antitrust ruling, but Automattic also scores seven victories.
Google’s new system for catching AI content spam has already been deployed. This is why it may be a part of Google’s Spam Update.
Google’s September 2026 spam update is rolling out worldwide and may take up to two weeks to complete.
Search Console’s new multimodal filter shows which pages receive traffic from image-based searches, without query data.
Google announced a new query fan-out framework that is described as ready for production-scale search.
A report finds Google Search and Discover declines got steeper for publishers, while direct, internal, and dark social grew.
YouTube is adding shopping features to Ask YouTube, which may organize product review videos into a comparison table and answer questions on watch pages.
Data shows ChatGPT ads becoming more common in retail conversations among US users on desktop.
Fiverr’s holiday survey finds more of its search freelancers reporting rising GEO requests than Google-ranking requests, though most still back SEO long term.
Google Analytics supports Include data filters for hostnames, so a property can keep event data from approved domains instead of excluding spam one by one.
Job site operators report months-long waits for Google Indexing API approval, with no stated review timeframe in Google’s documentation.
