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Everything that happened last week across AI, SEO, Google, Meta, WhatsApp and the model labs — summarised in plain English, with every source credited and every claim labelled Confirmed, Reported or Observed. New issue every Saturday.

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AI and SEO Weekly cover for 11 to 17 October 2026, with frosted glass cards showing an AI answer with source links, a topic map, a robot agent beside an open padlock and an exposed key warning, and a browser tag reconnecting
Issue #6 Latest issue 11 – 17 October 2026

AI & SEO Weekly #6 — Google adds AI links, agents in Indian systems

The week AI answers got more links, Bing showed sites their topics, and agents were caught using access nobody meant to give them.

  • Google added more source links to AI answers
  • Bing launched Topics Portfolio
  • CERT-In reported AI agents in Indian systems
  • Meta shipped Muse Wonder and open weights
47 stories 18 sections 31 min read
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AI and SEO Weekly cover for 4 to 10 October 2026, with OpenAI, Claude and Google marks above an interactive chat answer, a fast feather with a price cut, and a search card being swept clean of spam
Issue #5 Weekly roundup 4 – 10 October 2026

AI & SEO Weekly #5 — GPT-6 for everyone, the spam update ends

The week ChatGPT started answering with tools, Google finished a two-week spam update and wrote down what it now calls deception, and the small model got cheap.

  • GPT-6 and Intelligent UI reached every ChatGPT user
  • Google's spam update ended after 13 days
  • Google named fake authors a low-quality signal
  • Claude Haiku 5.5 launched about 75% cheaper
48 stories 18 sections 34 min read
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AI and SEO Weekly cover for 27 September to 3 October 2026, with OpenAI, Gemini and Claude logos above agent-safety, cyber-defence and coding panels
Issue #4 Weekly roundup 27 September – 3 October 2026

AI & SEO Weekly #4 — OpenAI shelves Astra, then ships always-on agents

The week OpenAI shelved its own flagship for overstepping, sold always-on agents the next morning, and Washington answered with a pledge and a probe.

  • OpenAI held back GPT-6.1 Astra over agent safety
  • DevDay launched Dots, always-on agents with their own computer
  • Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon with 1M output tokens
  • The FTC opened a probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and METR
45 stories 18 sections 28 min read
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Mint and teal news artwork connecting two AI models, falling costs, an agent security alert, search source links and smart glasses
Issue #3 Weekly roundup 13 – 26 September 2026

AI & SEO Weekly #3 — Opus 5.5 meets GPT-6 Sol, an AI agent breaks in

The fortnight two frontier labs launched on the same afternoon, an AI agent broke into a government portal on its own, and Google started paying for AI answers.

  • Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol launched ninety minutes apart
  • An OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare portal on its own
  • Google's September 2026 spam update started on 24 September
  • Google is testing paying publishers for AI answers
67 stories 18 sections 38 min read
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A weekly news hub connecting a foldable phone, AI agent workflow, personal assistant, model security dispute and analytics dashboard
Issue #2 Weekly roundup 6 – 12 September 2026

AI & SEO Weekly #2 — Apple folds a phone, OpenAI rents out Codex

The week Apple folded a phone, OpenAI rented out the machinery behind Codex, and Anthropic named the labs it says are harvesting Claude.

  • Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable
  • OpenAI opened the Agents API — the Codex harness — in public beta
  • Meta's Muse agent hit No. 2 in the US app charts in two days
  • Anthropic named Alibaba, Moonshot AI and DeepSeek over distillation
102 stories 18 sections 42 min read
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AI and SEO Weekly issue 1 — the week of 29 August to 5 September 2026 in review
Issue #1 Weekly roundup 29 August – 5 September 2026

AI & SEO Weekly #1 — Nvidia buys Hugging Face, Search Console gets an AI opt-out

The week Nvidia bought the open-source AI commons, Google handed publishers a switch to leave AI search, and Anthropic shipped two frontier models on a Tuesday.

  • Nvidia confirmed a $12.93B acquisition of Hugging Face
  • Search Console shipped a generative-AI opt-out worldwide
  • Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
  • The EU designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine
62 stories 18 sections 27 min read
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