October 9, 2026
Google Tests Gemini Making Phone Calls for Pixel Owners
Google is testing a Gemini feature that calls businesses on a user's behalf, starting with U.S. Pixel owners who pay for a Gemini subscription.
October 9, 2026
Chinese-made open-source AI agent Artex linked to South Korean bank breaches affecting 68,000 customers
South Korean investigators say hackers weaponized Artex, a Chinese-made open-source AI agent, to breach at least seven financial firms and steal data on 68,000
October 8, 2026
Google Ads To Auto-Apply Website Promotions To Search And Performance Max Campaigns Starting October 12
Google Ads will auto-extract coupons and deals from advertiser websites and apply them as promotion assets to Search and Performance Max campaigns starting
October 8, 2026
Publishers Spot Google News Tab Content Disappearing
Some publishers see pages indexed and served in Google Search but missing from the News tab, with no clear pattern. Coverage returns for some, leaving the cause
October 8, 2026
Google Business Profile Sends “Does This Look Right To You” Update Emails
Google is emailing business owners to confirm or reject user-suggested edits to their Google Business Profile, with a four-day reply window.
October 8, 2026
Google Local Panel Adds WhatsApp Button for Direct Messaging
Google is now showing a WhatsApp button inside the local panel in Search, letting customers start a chat with a business directly from the result.
October 8, 2026
Google Stops Showing Review Snippets on Healthcare Web Pages
Google has stopped displaying review rich results for healthcare websites. The pattern started in late May and deepened in early August.
October 8, 2026
Google Tests Moving Hotel AI Overviews To A Side Panel
Google is testing relocating AI Overviews from the top of hotel search results to the bottom of the page. The shift may change how travelers interact with AI
October 8, 2026
OpenAI Fires AI Trainers Who Used AI to Train Its Models
OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI models. Several were fired for using AI to do the very job they were hired to do.
October 8, 2026
Google Maps Policy Clarifies What Merchants Cannot Post In Listings Or Posts
Google updated its advertising and solicitation section, specifying that listings cannot carry time-bound promotions or calls to action, while posts cannot
October 8, 2026
Google Rolls Out Nano Banana 2.1 in AI Mode in Search
Google's Nano Banana 2.1 image generation model is now live in AI Mode in Search, bringing stronger visual design and mask-based editing.
October 8, 2026
How Google Evaluates Large Product Aggregator Websites For Indexing
A look at why Google may crawl millions of URLs on a large product aggregator yet index only a handful, and what site operators can do next.
October 8, 2026
Multi-Location SEO: How To Build A Scalable System
Learn how to build a repeatable multi-location SEO system that keeps business data, pages, profiles, reviews, and performance consistent at scale.
October 7, 2026
Beam: A 501B Open-Weight Model Built for Coding and Agentic Workloads
Reflection introduces Beam, a 501B-parameter open-weight model with 23B active, designed for coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks with frontier-level inference
October 7, 2026
OpenAI and America’s SBDC partner to bring AI training to small businesses
OpenAI is partnering with America's SBDC to train 150 advisors and reach 1,000 small businesses with hands-on AI workshops.