Google Search auto-expands some AI Overviews, burying the actual results even further. The web is still down there somewhere. Keep scrolling. (Jay Peters, The Verge)

Google launches “Expert Intelligence”, an initiative to bring trusted sources into Gemini. First: Play Books in Gemini Notebook, with 100,000+ titles from Penguin Random House, Macmillan, O’Reilly and others. Coming soon: “Third-party subscriptions, textbooks, and broader surface availability like AI Mode in Search and the Gemini App.”

How does ChatGPT search the web? For free users in instant mode, barely at all. The answer is grounded in page titles and cached 200-character snippets from OpenAI’s own index, with no page opened 93% of the time, an SEO firm reports. Paid thinking mode adds scraped Google results and real page fetches.

The New York Times is testing AI-generated search summaries without humans in the loop. (Max Tani, Semafor)

A new open standard wants to track how AI agents use publisher content – not just the request, but whether it influenced the response, got cited, reached the user, and drove engagement. The SPUR Coalition’s Content Telemetry spec is now open for public comment.

UK publishers will be able to opt out of Google’s AI Overviews, per CMA, the UK competition watchdog.

The Economist built a ChatGPT app that lets users query its Trump approval rating tracker. Maybe younger audiences will discover The Economist inside ChatGPT rather than through Google. (Andrew Deck, Nieman Lab)

ContentGrapher maps the concept structure of your content, flags what’s underexplained or missing, and tells you what to add so AI tools cite you. Whether it works as advertised is another question.

Do legacy reach-publishers have a future? People Inc’s 40 media brands are losing search traffic, but the company says 41% of digital revenue no longer depends on website visits. It’s social video, AI licensing deals, a recipe platform, and an app where people stick around. (Charlotte Tobitt, Press Gazette)

For 20 years, Google blocked other sites from embedding Google.com. Today it announced it will embed every publisher’s site into its own AI pages, ignoring the exact browser protections it helped build. (Thomas Baekdal, LinkedIn)

A breakdown of the scraper economy: bulk harvesters, answer engines, search hybrids, and the infrastructure layer. The market hit $1 billion in 2025. Not one dollar flows back to publishers. (Matthew Scott Goldstein, LinkedIn)

“AI responses may include mistakes,” Google says at the bottom of its AI Overviews. How many? According to a startup, 1 out of 10 summaries is problematic. That’s “millions of erroneous answers every hour.” (The New York Times)

Google is rewriting news headlines in search results. “Copilot Changes: Marketing Teams at it Again.” That’s not a headline a journalist wrote. Google did. Without telling anyone. (Sean Hollister, The Verge)

Google says no: “We really don’t want you to think you need to be doing that or produce two versions of your content, one for the LLM and one for the net.” (Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land)

Google is rolling out Preferred Sources globally and has unveiled new AI features as well as new partnerships with news publications. SPIEGEL is one of the partners. (Google)