YouTube study finds nearly two-thirds of video creators want to use AI to insert themselves into content

Google clarified that robots.txt controls which bots can crawl a site, not what those bots do with the data they collect, and that non-standard rules are silently ignored under RFC 9309.

Semrush found AI Overviews now appear in 88% of commercial keywords tracked, nearly double the previous 46%.

China has developed a five-part GEO standard to regulate AI visibility and vendor evaluation after a television scandal, offering Western SEOs practical measurement and ethics guidelines.

Arkose research shows 97.7% of legitimate AI agent sessions lack verified identity, with ChatGPT signing only 78.4% of its sessions.