Technology

Sixteen months ago, Google's AI answer boxes were an experiment most Australians could scroll past without noticing. Similarweb's mid-2026 generative AI landscape report put AI Overviews on more than 40 per cent of US Google searches by May 2026, compared with roughly 15 per cent in January 2025.

Agencies and reporting dashboards that plug into Google Ads have a deadline. From 5 August new connections will need a passkey rather than a password or a texted code, and the tools most businesses never think about are the ones that break.

Google is not hunting for machine-written text. New Ahrefs data shows the average share of machine-written wording barely shifts across the whole of page one, rising only from 27.1 per cent at the top spot to 30.9 per cent at the bottom.

Hundreds of shared Claude conversations turned up in Google and Bing because a robots file blocks a crawler but does not remove a page from search. The distinction catches out businesses running client portals and staging sites too.

Construction crews using Sitemate's Dashpivot are reporting site paperwork that took 90 minutes now finishing in under 10, the Sydney company says, as its Storm AI agent rolls out.

Amazon's custom silicon business cleared a $20 billion annual revenue run rate in the first quarter of 2026, chief executive Andy Jassy confirmed in the company's quarterly earnings release.

Roaming bill shock is the pitch: LeafySIM's destination-specific prepaid eSIMs let travellers buy their data before they fly, from a company small enough to answer its own support emails.

Your Google Business Profile ranking used to be the scoreboard that mattered. That scoreboard now has a rival, and it is winning by a wide margin.