GPT-6 users report disappearing credits and jobs left unfinished
Codex users report exhausted allowances and unfinished tasks, while a separate bug report alleges purchased credits keep draining during connection failures.
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Google is coming for the free tools small websites depend on
Interactive tools are spreading into AI Overviews, prompting small developers to question how they will keep earning visits.
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Google tests new smaller link card design in AI Overviews and AI Mode
Google is testing a smaller link card design in AI Overviews and AI Mode, dropping the website description and shrinking the card size from the larger block format used before.
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GPT-6 took just a day to jailbreak, researcher claims
The reported bypass combines an attack published in 2025 with four additional techniques. Its full details have been shared privately with OpenAI, the researcher says.
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Google brings search-style AI nswers to Chrome help center with Gemini
Google has been steadily turning traditional search into an AI-first experience, first with AI Overviews and then AI Mode. Now, that approach is showing up where users may not expect it: the Chrome Help Center. Google appears to be rolling out “Ask Google Help,” a Gemini-powered AI assistant that can answer questions about Chrome directly […]
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Is ChatGPT using your work without giving you credit?
ChatGPT may read your website and still give readers no link to it. A researcher says ChatGPT fetched 223 pages for one answer but cited just 16, offering a glimpse of the decisions publishers rarely get to see.
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Microsoft is adding “ask a follow-up” feature to Copilot results, and it could affect publishers’ traffic
Bing is now testing an “Ask follow-up” box within its Copilot/AI Overview results. Previously, this section only included “Read more” and “Read less” buttons, but today we spotted Bing testing a new follow-up question box, similar to what Google has been testing within its own AI Overviews. Here is a screenshot of how it looks. […]
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Bing Tests Prominent Download Buttons for Popular Desktop Software
Bing is showing a new software search result that places a prominent Download button directly inside a dedicated result card. The card appears for searches involving popular desktop applications. It includes the software’s name, website, category, publisher, and a short description, followed by a large Download button that gives users a direct route to the […]
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DuckDuckGo is using Chrome to convince you to stop using Chrome
DuckDuckGo is encouraging users of its search engine in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge to try its own browser. In Chrome, we spotted a large “Switch to Our Browser” card on DuckDuckGo’s New Tab experience. The card says the browser is “fast, free, and gives you even more online protection,” and includes an “Install DuckDuckGo […]
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Best SEO blogs: 6 I recommend after 20 years in publishing
My picks for keeping up with search, sharpening your SEO skills and making better decisions for your website.
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Famous UK retailer builds YouTube studio to get AI to recommend its products
British department store chain John Lewis is turning to YouTube to help its products appear in AI shopping recommendations. The retailer has opened a permanent studio inside its flagship London store after reporting a sharp increase in searches from AI agents. Those searches now account for 2.5%, up from 0.3% a year earlier, according to […]
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GPT-6 Astra not showing up? Here’s where ChatGPT Plus users can find it
OpenAI says access has reached Plus and Business subscribers, but the new model is not available in every ChatGPT mode.
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The Telegraph is building a YouTube newsroom as search traffic fades
Its podcast audience has grown 161% as the publisher builds around YouTube, video, events and paid memberships.
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Google says fixing SEO problems may not bring rankings back
Major algorithmic losses can take months to reassess, while rankings previously supported by spammy links may not return at all.
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Google will give rivals search data publishers still can’t see
Google’s European licensing program will give eligible search engines access to clicks, rankings and user-behavior signals that website owners do not receive through Search Console.
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Google keeps its ad empire intact while publishers fight for survival
A federal judge rejected the attempt to dismantle key parts of Google’s advertising operation, leaving struggling websites dependent on the company for both discovery and monetization.
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Is Google struggling to show favicons for sites in search results?
Google appears to be having trouble displaying favicons for websites in search results. We also noticed this issue last week for some sites. Brodie Clark raised this on the SERP Alerts page on X, flagging the favicon issue. Brodie wrote: “Heads-up: Google seems to be struggling to show favicons for a large number of sites […]
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Google explains why hreflang alternate URLs show as “not indexed”
Gary Illyes clarified how Google handles hreflang and alternate URLs during canonicalization, explaining that these alternate versions aren’t indexed in the traditional sense. This came up in a LinkedIn thread started by Faiez Javaid, who asked: “If Google is choosing by itself one /lang/ as canonical and ignoring others showing in GSC as not indexed, […]
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Google loses four architects of Search and Gemini as DeepMind’s founder steps back
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals are leaving to form a new AI company. Demis Hassabis is handing daily control of Google DeepMind to one of his longest-serving deputies. Four engineers whose work runs through Google Search, the company’s computing infrastructure and Gemini are leaving to start a new AI venture. At […]
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