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The Universal Commerce Protocol's v2026-08-25 release restructures the spec for multiple verticals and ships breaking schema changes. Retailers building AI checkout on UCP will need to update their integrations.
Poland's telecoms regulator UKE has pushed its decision on Google's payments to press publishers to December 26, while digital publishers' group ZPWC lodged its own claim worth an estimated 514 million zloty a year.
Google has published who can buy anonymized ranking, query and click data from EEA searches under the EU's July DMA decision. Licensing starts September 17, samples follow in November.
The European Commission has designated ChatGPT a very large online search engine under the DSA, citing 159.1 million monthly EU users. OpenAI has four months to meet audit, risk and ad-transparency rules.
Every Search Console property worldwide can now see impressions from AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover AI features, and switch its content out of them. Clicks are still missing from the report.