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Anthropic adds watermarks to text generated by Claude models
Anthropic
Anthropic announced they’re adding imperceptible watermarks to text generated by Claude models across all products to comply with the EU AI Act's Transparency Code. Marking applies worldwide to all Claude models launched on or after August 2, 2026. The company is working on methods for third parties to detect these embedded watermarks.

Google adds new AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Analytics
Josh Moser
Google announced new AI Overviews at the top of the GA4 homepage to give you an instant summary of important updates. They’re also announcing new dashboards in Google Ads (coming soon in GA4) that let you transform raw data into clear visualizations with text prompts. They also introduced a benchmarking feature in Ask Advisor, their AI assistant, that compares your campaign performance with that of similar businesses. 

Microsoft Clarity AI Scrape-to-Referral insights report
Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Clarity has added another AI metric: AI Scrape-to-Referral insights. It puts a single metric on AI scraping activity relative to referral traffic. The purpose is to give you insight into whether it is worth having that AI bot crawl your site, and whether there is enough return and value to keep allowing that bot to scrape your website.

Google Gemini Passes 1B Monthly Users, 63% Now Use Voice
Matt G. Southern
Google announced that Gemini surpassed 1B monthly users, highlighting voice, camera, and file uploads as its main features. SE Ranking noted that Gemini surpassed Perplexity as a referral source earlier this year, making it valuable to track Gemini referral traffic even though Google does not share click data.

Yelp brings restaurant reservations and waitlists to ChatGPT
Anu Adegbola
Yelp is deepening its partnership with OpenAI by bringing Reservations and Waitlist directly into ChatGPT, allowing users to book restaurant tables without leaving the conversation.

Google launches Sheets canvas to build mini-apps with Gemini
Eric Birnbaum
Google introduced a new Google Sheets feature globally in English for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers: Sheets canvas, which transforms rows and columns into interactive dashboards, custom study trackers, seating charts, and more, all with a simple prompt.

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How to Optimize Your Content for AI Search (GEO, AEO) [Video]
Aleyda Solis, Gianluca Fiorelli, Celeste Gonzalez, Cindy Krum
In the fifth AI Search Roadmap episode, Aleyda, Gianluca, Celeste, and Cindy cover top errors when optimizing content for AI search, steps to optimize your content for AI search, and favorite content optimization tools for AI search.

ChatGPT shows ads on 1 in 4 commercial queries. Yet, 1 in 7 appears for the wrong topic
Yulia Deda
Yulia analyzed 50,006 commercial prompts across 20 niches in the US to understand what ChatGPT ads actually look like at scale. The study found that it shows ads on 25.94% of commercial prompts, close to AI Mode’s 29.45%, and paying for an ad rarely gets the advertiser into the answer itself.

How to grow your AI Visibility with community signals
Kevin Indig, Amanda Johnson
Kevin and Amanda explain how UGC platforms generate strong community signals and outperform review sites across the buyer journey. Analyzing 35,000 citation URLs, they found that UGC platforms account for 17.1% of cited domains, more than 4x publishers at 4.0%. They also share how to intentionally produce community signals.

5 AI Workflows for Local SEO
Amanda Jordan
Amanda shares the decision filters, guardrails, and workflows she uses to manage local SEO for 20,000+ restaurant locations.

The AI Detection False Economy: Fueling FOW (Fear of Writing)
Andy Betts
Andy explains the pitfalls of AI detectors and how they can misidentify genuine human writing as artificial intelligence.

AI search visibility ROI: How to measure what matters (& ignore what doesn’t)
Ramona Sukhraj
Ramona shares how to use a three-layer measurement framework to understand the impact of AI search, measure the ROI of AI search visibility, and report back to leadership.

How to Run an AI Search Visibility Audit: Framework, Tools, and Free Skill Included
Orit Mutznik
Orit goes through how to run an AI search visibility audit in 8 stages: scope, prompt set, AI bot accessibility, baseline, citations, entity, diagnosis, and scoring. Tools and a free skill included.

How to Create Health & YMYL Content That Performs in AI Search
Alyssa Corso
Health searchers now stop at the AI answer. Alyssa goes through how to build the trust signals Google and ChatGPT need to cite you: Prioritize E-E-A-T, write in simple, direct language, be consistent, and more. 

Rerankers for GEO/AEO: How AI search chooses passages and sources
Metehan Yesilyurt
Metehan explains why a relevant, well-ranking page can still lose the citation and why listicles appear so often as sources, and shares a practical reranker decision guide for AEO/GEO and SEO teams.

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