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Publishers must manually fact-check AI content before publication under updated Google guidance, which also treats fabricated author profiles as deception.

Cyber-defence partners get first access to Gemini 4 Argon, which Google says targets complex workloads. The company disputes staff concerns about real-world coding.

Discover drives about two-thirds of Google's referrals to news sites, and AI Overviews already correlate with a 58 per cent drop in click-through rates.

Google has extended its AI Mode information agents to every market and language worldwide, letting the app monitor websites, forums, social posts and real-time data around the clock on a user's behalf.

A field experiment of 1,444 Chrome users found Google's AI interface slashed outbound traffic, while a separate study showed AI Overviews increased zero-click searches by 34.5 per cent.

SpamBrain's September sweep marks a sharp extension from August's three-day window and lands on the same day Search Console splits its web performance reporting.

Consultant David Melamed documented two accounts where a $3,200 reward was marked invalid more than a month later, prompting Google to acknowledge the complaints without offering a fix.

The company stripped live prices and direct booking links from hotel and flight queries on 8 September following an 890 million euro fine from regulators.