1+ week, 3+ day ago   (259+ words) Draft guidelines address chatbot memory, AI agents and training-data leaks, with the Bureau reviewing the text on September 16-17 before November adoption. For transborder data flows, a live issue given how much AI infrastructure runs through cloud providers outside Europe, the…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (863+ words) Inline carousel now runs mid-response for the first time, plus a second unit at the foot of the page. Advertisers still cannot segment the surface in reporting. Shopping ads moved into the body of Google's conversational answers on August 31, 2026, when…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (913+ words) Responses may vary in accuracy, and Google assigns publishers the risk of acting on them. Beta status carries no general availability date for other languages. Every English-language visitor to the AdSense Help Center is now met by a conversational AI…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (1034+ words) Fieldwork on 1,944 US adults found 53% unaware chatbots train on chats by default, and 14% trusting AI firms with data. Once informed, 58% object to the use. DuckDuckGo published survey results on August 25, 2026 showing that 56% of self-described AI enthusiasts and 32% of all AI…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (821+ words) Restricting chatbots to true statements reduced delusional spiraling without ending it, and warned users stayed vulnerable at sycophancy rates of 10% to 50%. A team led by MIT researchers published a formal simulation on February 22, 2026 showing that agreeable chatbots can push even…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (817+ words) Three technical artefacts define the crawler. The first is its robots.txt token, which is the string GPTBot. A User-agent: GPTBotblock followed by Disallow: / refuses the whole site; path-level Allow and Disallow rules work as they do for any other…...