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Google Updates

2 entries in 90 days Updated 7th Jul 2026

Google Discover

5 entries in 90 days Updated 18th Aug 2026

AI Overviews

29 entries in 90 days Updated 18th Aug 2026

AI Mode

16 entries in 90 days Updated 18th Aug 2026

ChatGPT

10 entries in 90 days Updated 17th Aug 2026

Gemini

7 entries in 90 days Updated 14th Aug 2026

Perplexity

3 entries in 90 days Updated 13th Aug 2026

Microsoft Copilot

2 entries in 90 days Updated 13th Aug 2026

Claude

3 entries in 90 days Updated 17th Aug 2026

Grok

6 entries in 90 days Updated 14th Aug 2026

Instagram

4 entries in 90 days Updated 15th Aug 2026

Social Platforms

6 entries in 90 days Updated 18th Aug 2026

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Social Platforms

X adds topic-level diversity to For You, in a release it did not announce

A fourth commit in five days gives the For You slate builder repetition counts for a post's topic, not just its author, and starts sending author follower counts and an NSFW-author flag to the neural ranker. The Following feed grows from 100 results to 110. No README announcement came with it.

AI Mode

Gemini 3.7 Flash becomes a selectable model in AI Mode

One day after launching Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding and agents, Google made it selectable inside AI Mode, globally and in English, for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. It is an extra option in the model menu, not a new default.

Social Platforms X drops 665 Brazilian candidate accounts out of For You, and corrects how its new weights are being read AI Overviews AI-generated illustrations start appearing inside AI Overviews, and a recipe publisher objects Gemini Gemini 3.7 Flash takes over Gemini Spark Social Platforms X publishes its ranking weights and its visibility filters, plus a tool that shows your own labels Google Discover Google cuts the Search profile follower thresholds to 35,000 ChatGPT Health and finance advertisers get a route into ChatGPT ads, case by case Gemini Gemini connects to twelve more services, from OpenTable to Zocdoc Grok Grok 4.6 becomes the flagship, aimed at long-running agents ChatGPT ChatGPT ads reach Brazil and Mexico, completing the May list at nine markets ChatGPT Sighting: the ChatGPT "Sources" link moves behind the three-dot menu Gemini The Gemini app passes 1 billion monthly users Grok Grok Bot: agents that sign into your tools and keep working AI Overviews Google points the judge at an App Store ruling, two weeks before the AI Overviews hearing AI Mode Google tests AI buttons on the desktop home page that open AI Mode ChatGPT ChatGPT Atlas stops working, nine months after launch ChatGPT ChatGPT ad pixels switch to automatic advanced matching by default on 17th August ChatGPT GPT-5.6 Luna becomes the free-tier default and free text chats go unlimited AI Overviews Pew's click study gets a peer-reviewed version, and the click gap survives the controls Gemini Google Assistant shuts down on 4th September, and Gemini takes the slot AI Overviews How Google counts an AI Overviews impression: only once the link is in view AI Mode How Google counts an AI Mode impression: every follow-up is a new query Perplexity Ninth Circuit vacates Amazon's injunction against Comet's shopping agent Social Platforms Pinterest moves search relevance judging to vision-language models

ChatGPT ChatGPT crosses 1 billion weekly users Perplexity Reddit's DMCA circumvention claims against Perplexity and SerpApi survive dismissal

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