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Your AI in Marketing News from The Latest Week 🤖 [March 1, 2026]

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image

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🤖 The Latest AI News You Can’t Miss

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Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image
Naina Raisinghani
Google introduces Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), their latest state-of-the-art image model. Now you can get the advanced world knowledge, quality, and reasoning you love in Nano Banana Pro, at lightning-fast speed. It is rolling out across Google products, including Gemini and Search. 

Anthropic: Schedule recurring tasks in Cowork
Anthropic
Scheduled tasks allow you to delegate work to Cowork by creating tasks that run automatically on a recurring basis, or on demand. It is now available in Cowork on Claude Desktop for all paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise).

Microsoft Thwarts AI Prompt Injection Attacks Aimed at Manipulating AI Engines
Barry Schwartz
Microsoft has implemented and continues to deploy mitigations against prompt injection attacks in Copilot. They are referring to this as "AI Recommendation Poisoning", where companies are embedding hidden instructions in "Summarize with AI" buttons that, when clicked, attempt to inject persistence commands into an AI assistant’s memory via URL prompt parameters.

Google rolls out updates to image and video tool Flow AI
Andrew Hutchinson
Google announced updates to Flow, which will make it easier to create complex compositions and enhance content in the app. New features include an updated user interface, more intuitive editing tools, and the ability to generate videos from images using text prompts.

Perplexity introduces Perplexity Computer
Perplexity
Perplexity introduces Perplexity Computer. It operates the software stack just like a human co-worker would: by using it. Computer reasons, delegate, searches, builds, remembers, codes, and delivers. It is available to Perplexity Max subscribers and will also be available to Enterprise Max users soon. 

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What 13 months of data reveal about LLM traffic, growth, and conversions
Jason Tabeling
An analysis of LLM referral traffic shows low volume, rapid growth, shifting citations, and an 18% conversion rate. “LLM referral traffic accounts for less than 2% of total referral traffic on average, according to our dataset”.

The Bing AI Index Gap: How AI is Citing Not Index Pages [Study]
Adam Gent
Adam conducted a study using the new AI Performance report in Bing Webmaster Tools to determine why pages might appear in Bing but not in Google. “98% of the cited pages in Bing AI Answers are Not Indexed in Google because of page quality issues”.

AI-SEO is a change management problem
Amanda Johnson, Kevin Indig
The AI SEO transformation requires a decades-old proven playbook: Organizational change management. Amanda and Kevin go through why AI SEO implementation challenges are people and process problems, not technical ones. 

Entity Search, Query Fan-Out, and Practical ML for SEO 
Gianluca Fiorelli, Lazarina Stoy
Lazarina shares about the rising importance of entity search, limitations of generative AI, how AI-generated follow-ups reshape intent, and much more in this insightful interview with Gianluca.

The Infinite Tail: How AI has rewritten the rules of search discovery
Dan Taylor
AI introduced a new way for users engage with the internet as a method of discovery, research, and purchasing. Dan shares how AI has rewritten the rules of search discovery.

The real risk of AI-generated content
Tomek Rudzki
Tomek shares how AI content sites lose visibility, important considerations while creating AI content, and how to use AI content safely.

Content Types & Formats That Earn Mentions in LLMs
Bartosz Góralewicz
Research across 768,000+ AI citations shows comparative listicles account for 32.5% of all AI citations. Comprehensive guides with data tables achieve 67% citation rates. Pages with FAQ schema are 3.2x more likely to appear in Google AI Overviews.

How to make your content stand out in the age of AI
Sara Vicioso
AI made publishing easier, but differentiation is harder. Sara goes through how clarity, intent alignment, and small SEO changes drive real gains.

From Archive to Asset: How to Optimise Existing Videos for Search & AI in 2026
Georgie Kemp
Georgie explains how optimising your existing video library boosts AI citations, YouTube visibility, and search performance without creating new content.

AAO: Why assistive agent optimization is the next evolution of SEO
Jason Barnard
Incomplete terminology leads to an incomplete strategy. Jason shares a clearer framework for optimizing when AI systems recommend and act.

🤖 AI Tools & Automations of the Week

Which are the newest AI tools and automations you can’t miss?

LLM Access Checker [Chrome Extension]
Uproer
Check if the current web page is accessible to common LLM crawlers, like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and more.

XOFU: Grow Your Brand's Visibility in AI Search
Citation Labs
Track, analyze, and grow your brand's visibility in AI-generated recommendations. 

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