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Google said Search Console AI Position Reporting Will Evolve Over Time
Barry Schwartz 
John Mueller said that he expects the position and impression tracking for AI Mode, AI Overviews, and Google Search to “evolve over time" as Google Search, AI Mode, and AI Overviews “evolve too," he wrote.

Google ‘AI contribution pilot’ tests paying websites when they’re used in AI results
Ben Schoon
Google is testing directly paying websites and publishers when their content is used to flesh out AI Overviews and other AI results through a new “AI contribution pilot,” with “at least dozens of publishers”.

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface
Ivan Mehta
Anthropic is merging its front end for Claude chat and Cowork, making it less confusing for people to decide which tab to use for different tasks. With the new design, Claude automatically routes requests without having to switch tabs or windows. 

Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans
Sarah Perez
Meta introduced a new subscription service, Meta One, offering expanded AI usage and other premium features across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The new plans let users access a range of AI tools, including image and video creation and editing, as well as in-app tools like Instagram's AI-powered Restyle editing tool.

Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Tom Ouyang, Malini Jaganathan
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, their “most advanced live dialogue models yet”. Gemini 3.8 Live is built for scale and cost efficiency, combining conversational intelligence with fluid dialogue and visual grounding, and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking is built for high-complexity tasks, with increased intelligence and multi-step reasoning. 

Cloudflare Lets Sites Disallow AI Training Without Blocking Googlebot
Matt G. Southern
Cloudflare has announced a new Disallow AI Training setting, and it says it will move sites that already block AI training onto it. This setting adds a no-training preference in robots.txt, while still allowing Googlebot, Applebot, and Bingbot to crawl for search purposes.

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Brand Protection In AI Search: How To Audit And Defend Your Brand’s Identity
Olesia Korobka
Olesia explains how to spot false claims and impersonators in AI search, then prioritizes brand protection fixes, abuse reports, and monitoring that help users find official channels.

AI Search Optimization Best Practices: What’s Proven, What’s Plausible, and What’s Hype
Gianluca Fiorelli
Gianluca shares AI search optimization best practices, fact-checked: learn what’s proven, plausible, inert, or hype across GEO, AEO, AI visibility, schema, and content.

Anthropic Shares Power Prompts That Improve AI Results
Roger Montti
Anthropic shares prompting upgrades that save tokens, improve writing & coding, and get the most from the least expensive effort settings.

3 GEO pillars: LLM readability, brand context, agentic commerce
Olaf Kopp
Olaf introduces the three GEO pillars and explains how each pillar requires different skills, resources, and responsibilities across SEO and content, PR and brand communications, ecommerce, and product data management.

Are you doing marketing… or building software?
Kevin Indig, Amanda Johnson
Kevin and Amanda share how AI automation is highly effective when it’s targeted, and introduce the build vs buy framework: Buy the tool when the problem isn’t just yours, and buy the know-how when the workflow is yours alone.

If You Were On Reddit Just For “GEO”, Your Strategy Was Doomed From the Very Start
Ann Smarty
Ann argues that SEO/GEO success is only possible if you are strategic about it, not trying to take shortcuts, and Reddit marketing is no exception: “If you are committed to building real Reddit presence that will drive brand visibility, trust, conversions, etc., then go for it”.

Beyond Content Parity: Building A Validated Content Workflow For AI Search
Bill Hunt
Bill shares how to build a validated content workflow for AI search that turns decision gaps into original, substantiated answers instead of me-too content parity.

How To Get Your Website Ready For AI Agents
Crystal Carter
Crystal shares five practices to agent readiness: make your website do things, utilize agent-first tools, choose agent-first partners, build your own agents, and test, iterate, and pay attention. 

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The workspace for SEOs and their agents​
SerpLens
On-page audits, location emulation, and an AI that works the live render. Built by SEO consultants for teams that live in the SERPs.

Citation Prompt Generator
DEJAN 
Enter a public website to generate non-branded prompts that ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other AI assistants could cite as a relevant source.

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