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• Only 4% of Searchers Don't Click From Google AI Overviews, 30.5% said they often click, 41.5% said they sometimes click (Link)

• The search visibility framework: Dominating every corner of the SERP in 2026 (Link)

• Google August 2025 Spam Update Unleashed (Link)

• How to Show Ads in Google AI Overviews/AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot (Link)

• Some Sites Have Huge Crawl Rate Declines In Google Search Console (Link)

• AI tool adoption jumps to 38%, but 95% still rely on search engines. 21% of U.S. users access AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, and Deepseek. (Link)

• ChatGPT’s answers came from Google Search after all. Even ChatGPT leaned on Google’s search results via a scraping service – underscoring how crucial Google’s index remains in the AI search era. (Link)

• Google Could Get Broken Up This Week. Here’s What It Would Mean. (Link)

• Scraping vs. API: Best Method to Track AI Search Visibility (Link)

• SEO Has Been Tactical for 20 Years. GenAI Forces the Strategy Question. (Link)

• 21 Best AI Search Rank Tracking Tools for 2025 (Link)

AI News

• Anthropic Report Reveals How its AI is Weaponized for ‘Vibe-Hacking’ and No-Code Ransomware (Link)

• Anthropic launches a Claude AI agent that lives in Chrome (Link)

• Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors

  Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial. (Link)

• Announcing Imagen 4 Fast and the general availability of the Imagen 4 family in the Gemini API (Link) (Link)

• Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with toggle on/off reasoning (Link)

• Elon Musk says xAI has open-sourced Grok 2.5 (Link)

• Google is building a Duolingo rival into the Translate app (Link) (Link)

• AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk; experts consider it a ‘dark pattern’ to turn users into profit (Link)

• Anthropic has new rules for a more dangerous AI landscape. The AI startup’s new policy now specifically bans using Claude to help develop biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons. (Link)

• Claude for Chrome can take actions on your behalf within the browser (Link)

• AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study reveals (Link)

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