OpenAI data show that active ChatGPT users on consumer plans now mostly use non-English languages, with growth fastest in Africa and Asia.

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Google launched a new update in AI Mode that places recipe site links at the top of responses, with creator names, ratings and ingredient counts.

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Google's Liz Reid argues personalization and preferred sources can help small publishers get found in AI search, though she shared no supporting data.

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Google's AI governance paper argues public-web training should remain fair use while pointing to opt-out controls, takedowns, and paid deals for specialized content.

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Desktop and mobile clickthrough rates are splitting, according to new benchmark data. Clicks are growing on desktop while declining on mobile.

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John Mueller explained that impressions in Google's Search Console AI report track links to your pages, and user-activated links only count after they're activated.

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SignalFire reports marketing hiring at major tech companies has fallen far more sharply than engineering, based on its hiring data.

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Microsoft Clarity's Bot Analytics dashboard now detects when bots request URLs your robots.txt disallows, with trends and filters by bot and operator.

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Google has finished rolling out the June 2026 spam update globally and across all languages. It's the second spam update of the year.

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A Similarweb report links AI recommendations to more site visits and deeper engagement, with most downstream traffic arriving via branded search.

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Two senior Google AI researchers, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold's John Jumper, are leaving for OpenAI and Anthropic within the same week.

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About half of U.S. adults use AI chatbots, and 60% read AI Overviews, but more predict AI will hurt society than help it.

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Google's new messaging to CMOs reiterates that GEO is still SEO and states that third-party tools have no access to its internal metrics.

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