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3rd Sep ChatGPT GPT-6 Astra starts rolling out to paid ChatGPT tiers, with access off by default for enterprises 3rd Sep Grok Grok Bot opens to enterprises, free for two weeks, with admin controls added 2nd Sep AI Mode Gemini 3.8 Flash becomes selectable in AI Mode, three weeks after 3.7 2nd Sep Gemini Gemini 3.8 Flash reaches the Gemini app for Pro and Ultra subscribers 2nd Sep Social Platforms X flips its Phoenix aggregation default to a long-dwell variant, and lets its bot detector file reports 1st Sep AI Overviews The EU asks publishers whether they will use Google's AI opt-out 1st Sep Social Platforms X makes the risk-bucket ads blender the default for the home timeline, and rewrites its moderation rules as two tables 1st Sep Social Platforms X moves its country-by-country adult-content gating into a live config, and starts recording ranking scores per experiment bucket

31st Aug Google Discover The Discover Generative AI report reaches every property, three months after a logging note first confirmed it existed 31st Aug AI Overviews Search Console's Generative AI reports and the AI opt-out control reach every property worldwide 31st Aug AI Overviews Audit of 15,942 citations: AI Overviews lean on commercial health sites and YouTube where ChatGPT leans on government pages and Wikipedia 31st Aug AI Overviews Google publishes the application rules for the EU search-data program, and never mentions AI chatbots 31st Aug AI Mode Search Console's Generative AI reports and AI opt-out control reach every property worldwide 31st Aug ChatGPT ChatGPT ads reach a $1bn run rate, and self-serve buying opens across Europe, India and North Africa 31st Aug Microsoft Copilot Microsoft puts a sign-in wall on Copilot, and leaves Copilot Search in Bing open 30th Aug ChatGPT Study: the language of the question, not the user's location, decides whether ChatGPT names local suppliers 29th Aug Grok Grok Bot gets an X connector, and xAI hands paid users X API credits to use it 28th Aug Google Updates Google stops applying site reputation manual actions for EEA searchers from 30th Aug 28th Aug AI Overviews AI Overviews start expanding into full AI Mode-style answers by default, no "Show more" click 28th Aug AI Mode Sighting: Shopping ads move inside the AI Mode answer for the first time 28th Aug Gemini Gemini Notebook moves to compute-based usage limits that refresh every five hours 28th Aug Social Platforms X adds a config switch that can change which ranking-model head serves, and locks its moderation rules under a golden test corpus 28th Aug Social Platforms X caps ads by the riskiness of nearby posts, and stored reply scores can now only fall 27th Aug Google Updates Google: naming an update is "primarily transparency", and anything actionable arrives separately 27th Aug AI Mode Hotel booking arrives in AI Mode, with flight price tracking in 180+ countries