The ten blue links are being pushed down the page like a support act nobody booked.
Ask, and you shall receive, unprompted: Google confirmed AI Overviews now expand into AI Mode by default on some queries, loading the “Ask anything” box automatically.
Organic results slide way down. Not great for publishers. Nor SEOs.
Meanwhile, in the Ads panel: Google is beta testing a Product titles report showing which AI-written titles ran instead of yours.
You get impressions, product clicks, CTR, cost, and avg. CPC. Add text guidelines in campaign settings to keep copy on-brand.
Cheap takes before expensive ones: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash was released this weekend. It drafts video at 360p up to 60% faster, at a third of 720p’s cost.
The obvious workflow is to test three or four concepts, then upscale the best to 4K.
Shopping gets its own seat: OpenAI pinned a Shopping tab to the ChatGPT sidebar, with a dedicated landing and search page.
Product discovery is now a destination in ChatGPT.
Two more for the tab pile:
- Google’s Dreambeans personalized story feed dropped its paywall for US accounts.
- Anthropic warns infostealer malware is hijacking Claude sessions, strolling right past two-factor authentication.
That last one’s a good nudge to audit whatever else sits within your browser.
