From 12 November Anthropic bans using Claude to manipulate the sources that search engines and AI assistants rely on, including networks of fake independent sites.
Google turned on AI Mode monitoring for every Search user worldwide on 28 September. Until then the feature sat behind the paid Ultra and Pro plans.
A randomised experiment with 1,100 searchers found Google's AI Mode cut click-through rates to websites by 18.8 percentage points, while trust in what people read fell too.
Google moved Search Live to Gemini 3.8 Live on 15 September. Spoken answers now come back with links to web pages, and the model works across 97 languages.
Google DeepMind has published research on a new AI search ranking method that uses one model where systems today use two.
Google announced WeatherNext 3 on 3 September and put it behind weather answers in Search, Maps and the Gemini app.
Google has added Gemini 3.8 Flash to AI Mode in Search. It is the third Flash model from Google in about six weeks.
Google has said which rival search engines can buy anonymised data from searches in Europe. Deals can be signed from 17 September, with the first samples in November.
The European Commission has classed ChatGPT as a very large online search engine, citing 159.1 million monthly users in the EU. OpenAI has four months to meet rules on audits, risk and ad transparency.
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