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News and analysis on product, policy and ranking changes across ChatGPT, Google, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Grok.
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol pricing over 20% for three months: $4 input, $20 output per million tokens. What cheaper inference means for AI search tools.
August 26 retired o3 from ChatGPT and sunset the Assistants API. The migration lessons for teams building AI search tools on provider platforms.
Every major AI vendor now tells builders to make sites agent-ready. What the new brief specifies, the six items to hand your team, and what to avoid.
Dated timeline of the AI search news from August and September 2026: Google's spam update, the Reddit citation drop, GPT-6 Astra, agents, and more.
Figma's robots.txt tells Google's AI training crawler to leave, along with GPTBot and ClaudeBot. What that move means, and why most SaaS shouldn't copy it.
Google confirmed AI Overviews now expand to fill whole results pages for some queries. What full-page answers mean for organic clicks and SaaS content.
Google's spam policies now name back button hijacking. What counts, how normal SPA and modal patterns trigger it accidentally, and the fixes to ship.
No confirmed core update shipped in August or September 2026. What did: a global spam update, bigger AI Overviews, and new policies. Diagnosis inside.
Perplexity now splits Mac work between local models and the cloud, keeping sensitive data on-device. What the split does to search behavior and SEO.
ChatGPT's ads test went international on August 11. The full timeline, OpenAI's ad principles, and what sponsored answers mean for B2B visibility.
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra for work and the Agents API in public beta. Why B2B discovery is moving inside agent runs, and what marketers should do.
Claude now browses, clicks, and fills forms on live sites. How browser agents read pages, five fixes that help them, and the hidden-text trap to avoid.
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