Google plans Agent Compute Engine preview with isolated computers for AI agents
The service pauses idle environments while preserving work and keeps service credentials outside them.
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Google adds existing AI and snippet controls to its Search sharing guide
The October 21 revision brings site-wide AI choices and page-level preview rules into one guide.
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Anthropic gives Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Teams can keep using the format without joining the foundation.
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OpenAI makes Decisions API generally available with 400-question requests
The release adds reusable prompt caching, native JSON input and US and EU inference residency.
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Canva Craft launches with 2K images and more than 30 aspect ratios
The model plans layouts before rendering; Magic Layers handles the editable design elements.
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Zuckerberg says over 10 million people have set up a Muse AI agent
Meta is preparing transaction fees and paid plans as shopping becomes a major use for Muse.
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Mistral launches Voxtral 3 voice agents that can act during calls
Voice agents start at $0.04 per minute, with separate rates for transcription and speech generation.
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Muse US downloads outpace ChatGPT’s debut, Sensor Tower estimates
Meta’s promotion and retention figures give retailers more context for the agent’s early audience.
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Gemini adds a small-business hub that remembers your brand style
Marketing and finance tasks join app connections, building on June’s Business Profile announcement.
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How Meta’s AI shopping assistant decides which products you see
An early shopping test sheds light on product discovery, while Meta’s checkout design shows how customers approve the order.
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When AI Fetches Your Content, Is That A Website Visit?
[ Summary ] When AI systems fetch information from your Website, those requests may reflect human information needs without representing actual human visits. Learn to distinguish AI crawling from targeted fetching, understand what server logs can revea…
Google Gemini now lets you turn off Google Search, and publishers could pay the price
A new option lets users choose, prompt by prompt, whether Gemini searches the web.
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Your ChatGPT traffic may be hiding in Direct
Missing source information on some ChatGPT links is complicating referral reports, while rank trackers are dealing with a separate problem in Google results.
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There Is No Such Thing As An “AI-Friendly Content Format”
[ Summary ] Don’t assume artificial intelligence requires a special content format. Write and organize information for people first, using headings, lists, tables, summaries, and structured data where they genuinely improve communication. Disting…
What are AI citations? Who gets the credit when AI answers?
An AI answer can bring together information from several websites. Its citations give you a way to open those pages and check what they actually say.
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AI shopping answers keep sending customers to the big chains, study finds
Small stores appeared in source links more often than they became the first recommendation, a Lightspeed-funded analysis found.
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Google unveils a faster way to power query fan-out
Its R4T framework generates multiple retrieval directions together, with researchers reporting a 12-to-20-fold speed improvement in tests.
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7 free AI SEO optimization techniques I recommend after testing them for 50 clients
How to improve your visibility in Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT Search, starting with the pages and information you control. Where to spend your time to improve visibility in AI search, with worked examples and a practical order of effort.
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AI SEO tools for small business: 3 free options I’d start with
Google and Microsoft offer useful AI features for understanding search traffic and visitor behavior. Here is what they can help you fix, where access is limited, and what a paid tool would need to add.
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3 AI visibility tools for small agencies, with 2 free options
Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools offer free AI search reporting. We compare their coverage and limits with HubSpot AEO, a paid option for tracking how ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity describe your clients and their competitors.
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